Write-Offs: 11.12.12
$$$S&P, Fitch face trial over Italy downgrades [Reuters]
$$$Kodak Reaches Financing Deal With Bondholders [WSJ]
$$$ "Investors in the US are marking down the prices of securities backed by mortgages written before the financial crisis, anticipating that the re-election of President Barack Obama presages a new effort to help distressed borrowers refinance their loans." [FT]
$$$ Jon Ronson: "I had Nostradamus-like sense that things were going to go wrong in the credit industry. And I became obsessed with trying to tell that story. ... But I couldn't do it. And the reason was because I kept on meeting people who worked in the credit industry and they were really boring. I couldn't make them light up the page. And, as I said in The Psychopath Test, if you want to get away with wielding true malevolent power, be boring." [The Awl]
$$$ "Armed with camcorders and Velcro, a group of activists hope to prove that mountain lions call Connecticut home despite assurances by the state that the big cats are out-of-towners." [Stamford Advocate]
$$$ Consider buying a signed print of Geoffrey Raymond's Ina Drew painting [Annotated Paintings]
$$$LLOYD! [Sandy Sucks]
$$$ A major insurance company is looking for quants to cover fixed income products, fixed income derivatives and structured products in New York [DBCC]
$$$Coal CEO Prays For Deliverance from Obama, Fires Workers [Slate]
$$$Exchanges Route Away From NYSE After Trading Glitch [WSJ]
$$$AIG keen to sell bank, expand in mortgages: CEO [Reuters]
$$$Baby Boomers Blunt Fed Easing While Saving for Retirement [Bloomberg]
$$$Businessweek criticized for poll on hot female b-school students [TBN]
$$$Mary-Kate Olsen Shares PDA with Older Boyfriend Olivier Sarkozy [toofab]