Write-Offs: 02.13.13
$$$Treasury nominee wins over critics, says tax reform top priority [Reuters]
$$$Meet the Morgan Stanley C.F.O. Candidates [DealBook]
$$$Has a Restructuring Credit Event occurred with respect to SNS Bank NV? [ISDA, also FTAV]
$$$ "Mr. Grantham, chairman of Boston-based GMO LLC, a global investment management firm, was not arrested, but his daughter, Isabel, was one of 48 protesters arrested for handcuffing themselves to the White House fence ..." [P&I Daily]
$$$Dogs! [NYT]
$$$ A leading software company in New York is looking for a Senior Vice President; Equity Financial Engineer [DBCC]
$$$Best Buy Founder Schulze Considers Alternatives to Buyout Plan [WSJ]
$$$SEC to roll out ‘Robocop’ against fraud [FT]
$$$Underwater and Drowning? Some Facts about Mortgages that Could Be Targeted by Eminent Domain [Liberty Street / NY Fed]
$$$ "[S]tudents in Fröhlich’s "Intermediate Programming", "Computer Science Fundamentals," and "Introduction to Programming for Scientists and Engineers" classes ... collectively planned to boycott the final. Because they all did, a zero was the highest score in each of the three classes, which, by the rules of Fröhlich’s curve, meant every student received an A." [Inside Higher Ed via Catherine Rampell]