Write-Offs: 12.20.13

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$$$Deutsche Bank to pay $1.9 billion to settle U.S. mortgage case [Reuters]

$$$20-something Buffett protégé freezes paint firm pensions [NYP]

$$$Investors’ Story Left Out of Wall St. ‘Wolf’ Movie [Dealbook]

$$$S&P Cuts European Union's Credit Rating [NYT]

$$$5 real people who have fallen in love with machines [NYP]

$$$Don't Sleep on Your Trades With ConvergEx [BloombergView/Matt]

$$$Jamie Dimon's Viral Christmas Card Is Braggy and Opulent, and That's Totally Fine [The Atlantic]

$$$Geraldo Rivera defends 'Duck Dynasty' star, Alec Baldwin: 'C---sucking f----t' is not a homophobic slur! [NYDN]

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Malcom Gladwell is not happy about John Paulson's $400 million gift to Harvard; UBS chiefs knew about Libor rigging; Insider trading; Bitcoin; "High School Baseball Teammates Allegedly Have Sex With Sandwich On School Bus"; and more.

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Dow falls off a cliff; Shake Shack shorts; "The economics of anal sex"; Billion dollar unicorns; Over-the-top ‘Godfather’ funeral causes outrage in Rome; and more.

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Mike Mayo says break up Brian Moynihan's job; Review finds SEC in-house judges are fair; Bill Ackman has a tennis protégé; "Man jailed four months over 'meth' that turned out to be salt"; and more.

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$$$ Germany, Netherlands Rating Outlooks Cut To Negative By Moody’s [Bloomberg] $$$ 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]

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Grexit; Goldman; "Scientists create seaweed that tastes like bacon"; and more.

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