Write-Offs: 08.03.12
$$$U.S. To Sell $4.5 Billion In AIG Stock In Public Offering [Bloomberg]
$$$Hiring Climbs but Jobless Rate Ticks Up [WSJ]
$$$ Bloomberg wants to develop a Libor alternative and call it Blibor [WSJ]
$$$ What's the Exxon Valdez up to these days? [Bloomberg]
$$$ "I think there's just something about getting into chlorine water that you just automatically go." - Ryan Lochte [AP]
$$$ An investing bank is looking for a Ph.D. quant for their derivatives modeling team, if that's of interest [DBCC]
$$$ Or consider supporting a second edition of Doug Henwood's book Wall Street, "the best leftwing book on actually-existing-capitalism that’s been written in the last couple of decades," if that's more your thing [Crooked Timber]
$$$ Financial weapons of mass irony [Reuters]
$$$ Futures are swaps in reality but not in regulatory arbitrage [Streetwise Professor]
$$$ Mustaches keep you safe from radiation [WaPo]