Write-Offs: 11.15.12
$$$BP to Plead Guilty to Felonies, Pay $4.5 Billion in Spill [WSJ]
$$$Eurozone slides back into recession [FT]
$$$House panel suggests SEC-CFTC merger after MF Global [Reuters]
$$$ "With their boozy client dinners, big bonuses and foul-mouthed traders, interdealer brokers are stalwarts of a financial order that is in retreat." [Economist]
$$$ John Carney went to a bar [NetNet]
$$$ Henry Blodget: Why do some people hate women? [Gawker, earlier, earlier]
$$$ William Blair is looking for a private capital associate in Chicago [DBCC]
$$$In a Switch, Investors Are Buying European Bank Bonds [DealBook]
$$$Fed Orders Largest Banks to Test Against Deep U.S. Recession [Bloomberg]
$$$SEC Report Finds Faults With Credit Raters [WSJ]
$$$Soccer no excuse for outdoor sex, Italy court rules [Reuters via Amy Tennery]
$$$ Maine GOP chairman "play[s] basketball every Sunday with a black guy" [DI]