Write-Offs: 8.18.15

Promontory Financial settles; Hedge funds feeling FitBit; Dov Charney The Musical; "Man Wanted For Throwing Pornographic Paper Airplane"; and more.
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$$$Bond Traders Aren’t Buying Into Good News on the U.S. Economy [Bloomberg]

$$$Promontory Financial Settles With New York Regulator [Dealbook]

$$$Dov Charney’s ‘legal drama’ is now an off-Broadway play [NYP]

$$$Brazil’s Political Crisis Puts the Entire Economy on Hold [Bloomberg]

$$$Man Wanted For Throwing Pornographic Paper Airplane [HP]

$$$Unicorns Hunt for Talent Among Silicon Valley’s Giants [Dealbook]

$$$Hedge funds love FitBit, hate Etsy [CNBC]

$$$Indian police question parrot accused of cursing at elderly woman [UPI]

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