Write-Offs: 02.20.13
$$$Fed Officials Feared Easy Money Could Rattle Markets [WSJ]
$$$Office Depot and OfficeMax Announce Plans to Merge, After Erroneous Release [DealBook]
$$$JPMorgan Said to Seek First Sale of Mortgage Bonds Since Crisis [Bloomberg]
$$$Credit-Trader Exodus to Hit Revenue at Gleacher [WSJ]
$$$ "My first thought was, ‘Well, why not make a TV series about firewood?’ And that eventually cut down to a 12-hour show, with four hours of ordinary produced television, and then eight hours of showing a fireplace live." [NYT]
$$$ Herbalife has a pretty amazing anthem that it played on its earnings call today [BI]
$$$ A global fixed income trading platform is seeking sales people to join their team in San Francisco [DBCC]
$$$ Support CapitalistPig by buying a genuine MF Global trading jacket [CapitalistPig, earlier]
$$$McKinsey Tries to Recruit Mothers Who Left the Fold [WSJ]
$$$Chesapeake probe finds no 'intentional' CEO misconduct [Reuters]
$$$ Seth Klarman's Baupost Group is doing some public relations [II alpha]
$$$Primary Dealers’ Waning Role in Treasury Auctions [Liberty Street]
$$$Authorities in Oklahoma Say They Seriously Believe Local Man Spontaneously Combusted [Gawker]
