Write-Offs: 10.04.12
$$$ "Congratulations: you’ve now taken a business which was earning 5 per cent to negative 10 per cent. Well done! Now what’s your next trick?" - James Gorman [FT]
$$$Barclays Names McGee Top Americas Corporate and Investment Banker [DealBook]
$$$ Viking and ValueAct have outperformed the market YTD, but the median hedge fund return through August is 4.13% [AR]
$$$Game Over: Dave & Buster’s Withdraws IPO [Deal Journal]
$$$ "It was the third alligator found roaming free on Long Island in less than a week." [Newsday]
$$$ A reader writes, "I know getting drunk and crashing cars into houses on Long Island has been a big fad this year so I figured I'd share." [Newsday, earlier]
$$$ A European investment bank is looking for a junior rates trader in New York [DBCC]
$$$Deutsche Bank seen hardest hit by Liikanen reforms [Reuters]
$$$Hard money and the gerontocracy [Noahpinion]
$$$ Barry Ritholtz is sick of all the people who are just in finance for the money [TBP]
$$$ Gawker recaps a Hulk Hogan sex tape [Gawker]
$$$ "But is having your head in a plush diver helmet simply too dorky for the workplace?" Possibly [BusinessWeek]