Write-Offs: 01.16.13
$$$Icahn Takes Herbalife Stake [WSJ]
$$$ Best and worst Ira Sohn Conference picks include THC (+65%), France CDS (-57%) [FTAV]
$$$How banking can ruin your body and mind [EFC]
$$$ "I wonder what the Art Collector thinks, late at night, as he ignores the phone calls from his lawyers, stops calculating the probability of prison, and surveys what $700 million has bought him. Maybe he is a boob and sees in Pollock’s swirls nothing more than a mirror of his own wealth. Maybe he has become infatuated with the scale of his consumption: the goal has shifted from acquiring individual works to assembling a mountain of art. If you are not managing more money, you are managing less." [n +1]
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$$$ "Corporate treasurers at companies like Google are being forced by the Federal Reserve's low-rate policy to invest in ever-riskier credit products, including longer-dated investment-grade bonds, junk bonds and leveraged loans ..." [Reuters]
$$$U.S. Picks Citigroup, JPMorgan to Manage GM Shares Sale [Bloomberg]
$$$Should We Have to Work Until 70? These CEOs Say Yes [CNBC]
$$$Man accused of killing grandma with fake tusk claims she was planning voodoo hit on him [NYP]
$$$ "A plan to give carbon credits for slaughtering camels, curbing emissions coming from their flatulence, was rejected by an Australian government committee." [Bloomberg]
