Write-Offs: 07.05.12
$$$Greece drops demand to ease bailout terms [FT]
$$$The NYSE Gets Its Very Own Dark Pool [MarketBeat]
$$$The Strange Takeover Limbo of CVR [DealBook]
$$$Countrywide won influence by giving House members discounts, report says [AP]
$$$ Jon Ronson talks to rich people, middle-class people, and poor people [GQ]
$$$ The guy who finished ahead of David Einhorn in the $1mm buy-in One Drop poker tournament was beaten up shortly afterwards [Poker News Daily]
$$$ A German university is suing a business student for lost income because he finished his bachelors and masters degrees in only 20 months [UPI]
$$$ A top institution is looking for a VP level structured credit trader in New York [DBCC]
$$$Euro the big loser after central banks intervene [FT]
$$$Irish Bill Sale Marks End Of Drought As Spain Yields Rise [Bloomberg]
$$$ Why not have variable-rate mortgages with fixed payments but variable amortization periods? [American Banker]
$$$ Traded assets are more volatile than non-traded assets, NGDP targeting edition [Noahpinion]
$$$ Alphonse "Buddy" Fletcher's wife is the Kleiner Perkins partner suing them for gender discrimination [Term Sheet]
$$$An Alternative Living Will for Banks [Paperwell]