Write-Offs: 08.29.12
$$$ Something something something ECB bond-buying [FT]
$$$Banker Bonuses At Risk As EU Lawmakers Fight Barnier Plans [Bloomberg]
$$$Yelp Surges After Lockup Expires [DealBook]
$$$ M&A volumes are down but at least there are a lot of small deals [DealBook]
$$$ People prefer potential success to actual success in hiring [HBR]
$$$ "At each of its most efficient restaurants, Chipotle averages more than 350 transactions during the lunch hour — about one every 11 seconds." [WSJ, related?]
$$$ Prudential is looking for a fixed income senior associate [DBCC]
$$$ Greg Fleming won't run E*Trade [Term Sheet]
$$$ "The interests of PE firms and their investors do not coincide with the companies that have been taken over, not in the way that Romney and his adherents would have you believe." Matt Taibbi gropes toward a theory of the corporation. [RS]
$$$Bond-Trading Firm Gleacher Said To Seek Buyer [Bloomberg]
$$$ Barack Obama does a Reddit AskMeAnything, doesn't really answer anything [Reddit]