Write-Offs: 08.22.12
$$$Fed Minutes Suggest Action Likely [WSJ]
$$$Ainslie Up 20% As Stock Hedge Funds Defy Four-Year Slump
$$$Best Buy shareholders caught in the crossfire [Term Sheet]
$$$FTC Clears Facebook’s Instagram Purchase [Deal Journal]
$$$ "Bain is a financial firm, but Romney wasn’t some Wall Street bank-monkey with a pitch book. He was the guy who fired you." [National Review] [!!]
$$$Wharton-Bound Goat Trainer Failed To Get Her Pet Goat To Perform On National Television [IvyGate]
$$$ A middle market private equity firm is looking for a senior associate in South Florida [DBCC]
$$$Bernanke ‘More Popular Than Justin Bieber’? [CNBC]
$$$Broken Brokerages: Finance Luminaries Join Fight Over Uniform Fiduciary Standard [NYO]
$$$Chinese acquisitions in US near record [FT]
$$$Obama Says First Dog Bo Is on a Diet [DI]
$$$Man Convicted of Assault for Punching McDonald’s Employee After Sundae Arrived with Hot Fudge on the Bottom [Gawker]