Write-Offs: 10.22.12
$$$Yahoo Sales, Profit Top Estimates Amid Mayer Turnaround [Bloomberg]
$$$Farallon’s Founder to Leave by Year End [DealBook]
$$$BofA-Merrill Hires Top Broker From Morgan Stanley [Deal Journal]
$$$ The World Financial Center will be renamed "Brookfield Place" [NYO]
$$$ Marissa Mayer's baby is named Macallister Bogue [Fortune]
$$$Sorry, nerds: Popular kids earn more in the long run [WonkBlog]
$$$ William Blair is recruiting for an Analyst - Special Situations & Restructuring to join the Corporate Finance team in Chicago [DBCC]
$$$ Is Mary Schapiro leaving the SEC soon? [FBN]
$$$CLOs stage comeback in US [FT]
$$$ McSweeney's has a financial economist talking about debt [McSweeney's]
$$$ "Is he a Columbia asshole or a Harvard asshole? The answer is important, because those are two very different types of asshole. Both are obsessed with showing you how smart they are, but the Columbia asshole does it by telling you everything he knows, while the Harvard asshole does it by acting bored with whatever you say. The Harvard variety is at least laid back, and the Columbia variety can be interesting; but put them together and you have a world-weary pest." [NR via IvyGate]
$$$Heinz Counterfeiting Operation Ends in Ketchup Explosion [Grub Street]