$$$Sen. Reid Reports Little Progress in 'Cliff' Talks [CNBC / Reuters]
$$$HP rebuffs ex-Autonomy CEO, warns of legal action [Reuters]
$$$Goldman CEO Blankfein Said to Meet With Obama Tomorrow [Bloomberg]
$$$O.E.C.D., Slashing Growth Outlook, Warns of Global Recession [NYT]
$$$Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan Apparently Can't Remember Anything [Matt Taibbi]
$$$China Thinks The Onion’s Sexiest Man Alive is a Real Thing and that Kim Jong-Un Won It [Gawker]
$$$ Prudential is looking for a financial markets operations associate in Bala Cynwyd [DBCC]
$$$Failed Bankers Should Be Paid Like Civil Servants: Taleb [Bloomberg]
$$$Record special payouts from US companies [FT]
$$$One crime in SAC probe is letting snitch go free [BreakingViews]
$$$Apple Pushes Out Mapping Executive [WSJ]
$$$ "The problem of monitoring to prevent defection and raising capital from your labor force indicates that ideally, you’d want to undertake the operation as part of a tight-knit community. A small village, for instance, in which people have bonds of loyalty that would help prevent defection, would be ideal." [NetNet / John Carney]
