Write-Offs: 01.29.14

Author:: Dealbreaker
Updated:: Jan 14, 2019
Original:: Jan 29, 2014

$$$Fed Officials Unite Behind Taper as Yellen Era Begins [Bloomberg]

$$$NY Clamping Down On Bitcoin [NYP]

$$$The 15 most bizarre Super Bowl prop bets [CNBC]

$$$Hedge Fund Wants to See Just How Much Everyone Dislikes JPMorgan [Bloomberg/Matt]

$$$ "An amazing thing happens when you drive a Rolls-Royce. I don't care if it's a 1907 or a 2014; it brings out the best in you as a driver. You get behind the wheel and it's a major sensory experience—the look and feel of everything, the British craftsmanship. You start the engine and it purrs. You put it in drive and it whispers away." [WSJ]

$$$Deport Justin Bieber petition tops 100,000; White House must respond

$$$A Risk Plan for Europe’s Banks, Going Nowhere Fast [NYT]

$$$Interests of the Goodell family range far beyond the NFL [NetNet]

$$$Lawsuit: Rob Ford Ordered Attack on Brother-in-Law to Hide Drug Use

$$$ Fed Minutes Suggest Action Likely [WSJ] $$$ Ainslie Up 20% As Stock Hedge Funds Defy Four-Year Slump $$$ Best Buy shareholders caught in the crossfire [Term Sheet] $$$ FTC Clears Facebook’s Instagram Purchase [Deal Journal] $$$ "Bain is a financial firm, but Romney wasn’t some Wall Street bank-monkey with a pitch book. He was the guy who fired you." [National Review] [!!] $$$ Wharton-Bound Goat Trainer Failed To Get Her Pet Goat To Perform On National Television [IvyGate] $$$ A middle market private equity firm is looking for a senior associate in South Florida [DBCC] $$$ Bernanke ‘More Popular Than Justin Bieber’? [CNBC] $$$ Broken Brokerages: Finance Luminaries Join Fight Over Uniform Fiduciary Standard [NYO] $$$ Chinese acquisitions in US near record [FT] $$$ Obama Says First Dog Bo Is on a Diet [DI] $$$ Man Convicted of Assault for Punching McDonald’s Employee After Sundae Arrived with Hot Fudge on the Bottom [Gawker]