Write-Offs: 02.12.13

Author:: Dealbreaker
Updated:: Jan 14, 2019
Original:: Feb 12, 2013

$$$Buyout-Boom Shakeout Seen Leaving One in Four to Starve [Bloomberg]

$$$Apple Calls Proxy Fight a 'Silly Sideshow' [WSJ]

$$$Comcast to Buy Remainder of NBCU From GE [WSJ]

$$$US approves $18bn Cnooc bid for Nexen [FT]

$$$Goldman Sachs CFO Sees Bank ROEs Beating 12% in Long Term [Bloomberg]

$$$Owl survives crash, gets stuck in grill of SUV [Click Orlando]

$$$ A top-tier multi-billion dollar investment management firm is looking to hire a VP for long-only manager research and due diligence [DBCC]

$$$BNY Mellon, bondholders to argue in Argentina appeal of U.S. ruling [Reuters]

$$$McGraw-Hill fires back against government, says case flawed [Reuters]

$$$Junk Bond Covenant Quality Hits All-Time Low in January [Barrons]

$$$A.C.'s Revel Casino Explores Prepackaged Bankruptcy [FBN]

$$$Pope Accepts Senior Analyst Position At Catholic Think Tank [Onion]

$$$ Goldman Fined for Failing to Block Trader’s $8.3 Billion Bet [Bloomberg] $$$ Key SEC Holdout in Money-Fund Overhaul Reverses Stance [WSJ] $$$ Canada Approves Cnooc-Nexen Deal [WSJ] $$$ JPMorgan nears £500m bonus tax deal [FT] $$$ Rant: At Top Law Firms, a Class Conflict During Bonus Season [BBW / Elie Mystal] $$$ Lloyd bought a house [DealBook] $$$ The 200 West Street Goldman cafeteria (1) is really very good, (2) features food from a former banker [DealBook] $$$ 100 Women in Hedge Funds names Ivanka Trump to its board, consists of 10,000 women, mostly not in hedge funds [AR] $$$ UBS is looking for a credit officer for securities backed lending in New Jersey [DBCC] $$$ Morgan Stanley's 2013 adviser pay to reward new loans [Reuters] $$$ Brokers Must Disclose Bonuses to Clients in Finra Proposal [Bloomberg] $$$ "It’s always a mistake to use microeconomic intuition in macro," quantitative easing edition [Scott Sumner] $$$ Whale’s Trade in Comeback as Junk Fervor Fades [Bloomberg] $$$ "If Harvard wishes to retain its primary existence as a gigantic profit-maximizing hedge fund ..." [American Conservative via John Carney] $$$ Ivy League Cracks Down as Students Spiral Out of Control [Bloomberg] $$$ "I am tired of fooling around, he said. I’m forming a legal team. We have case studies, an office outside Lexington. He swept the strips off the table and held the beak in the air. We’re looking for a poet to write our anthem!" [The Awl]

Bond crisis coming; Herbalife's "come back"; "Is Business School Gutting the Economy?"; Edible coffee cups; Llamas; Owls.

George Soros is firing people, the marijuana industry wants its own bank, an angry owl is "terrorizing joggers," AND MORE.

$$$ Germany, Netherlands Rating Outlooks Cut To Negative By Moody’s [Bloomberg] $$$ Congress Presses New York Fed for More Details on Rate-Rigging Scandal [DealBook] $$$ China bids $15bn for Canada’s Nexen [FT] $$$ John Paulson Said To See 50% Chance That Euro Will Fail $$$ Bane's Plan to Bankrupt Batman Doesn't Make Any Sense [The Atlantic] $$$ A top bank is looking for a consumer/food sector M&A vice president or senior associate [DBCC] $$$ Citigroup Chairman O'Neill Takes Hands-On Approach [WSJ] $$$ An Ackman Protégé Plans to Strike Out on His Own [DealBook] $$$ Apple is a champion of planned obsolescence [Reuters] $$$ Snoop Dogg to Release Reggae Album as Snoop Lion [Gawker]