In Europe its 9.02.10. Ha. (Entertainment Fix)
$140 1BR Affordable Snow Fort Sublet in Capitol Hill: Now available for rent! Includes Wireless internet, doorman with fez, premade snowballs. (Craigslist)
Get It While You Can: The Flotation Window could slam shut on PE. (Telegraph)
Paranoid optimism: PE firms “shouldn’t underestimate the impact on their industry that rising populism and politicians taking whacks at banks and bureaucracies will have.” (NY Times)
Email Forward of the Day: Rice Student Thinks Jefferies Is “More Courteous” Than Its Counterparts And Has “The Best Corporate Culture In Town” (Dealbreaker) And here’s another, more service-y take on the same topic. (Business Insider)
RISKY: The key to LBOs is not a lack of risk (that would not be an LBO by nature) but less of it. (NY Times)
Congrats: To Footnoted.org! The blog has been acquired by Morningstar. (Footnoted)
Bruhaha: I wanna hate the kid who scammed TechCrunch, but I kinda hate his interviewer more. Â Stop talking about “how you like to do interviews.” Either way, the kid claims he was joking around on instant messenger when he tried to solicit bribes in exchange for a story. (Business Insider)