Write-Offs: 05.07.12
$$$Spain to spend billions on bank rescue [FT]
$$$Facebook Kicks Off Roadshow With Zuckerberg in Hoodie [WSJ]
$$$Shareholder Calls for Chesapeake to Be Open to Offers [DealBook]
$$$How venture capital is broken [Reuters / Felix Salmon]
$$$ The "Gentleman Groper" was only a gentleman, not a groper [NYP, earlier]
$$$Stocks Could Sell Off but Not Swoon: Technicians [CNBC]
$$$ How would you like to be a senior derivatives trader at Aegon? It's in Baltimore. [DBCC]
$$$Should Benchmark Indices Have Alpha? Revisiting Performance Evaluation [NBER]
$$$ An FDA for financial innovation remains a terrible idea [John Cochrane]
$$$Yahoo Board Is Said to Meet Today, Discussing CEO Scott Thompson [Bloomberg]
$$$Dinosaur flatulence, belching may have contributed to warming Earth, killing them off [AP]