Hot Links: Cruuuuuuuushed It!

Stuff I’m Reading this Morning…

The Street has been slashing earnings estimates for the banks’ coming Q4 reports.  (CNBC)

Professor Jeff: Here’s what’s working and here’s what isn’t in the economy right now.  (DashofInsight)

A call to stop the austerity disaster in Europe and begin the structural reform.  (Reuters)

Confessions of a sleazy Vancouver gold mining stock promoter.  (TommyHumphreys)

The Washington Post is innovating at a torrid pace – but perhaps too quickly?  (WaPo)

Hold off on that epitaph: Carl Icahn cruuuuuuuushed it last year.  (NYP)

Michael Harris: It’s mainly the media driving the whole stocks-euro correlation.  (PriceActionLab)

Robert Sinn:  The holiday from Europe’s troubles is over.  (StockSage)

If John Paulson is going to bounce back, he might want to take a cue from Citadel’s Ken Griffin.  (Bloomberg)

Barry on the Merrill Lynch cramdown.  (TBP)

Corzine’s last minute plan to save MF Global was codenamed Project Honeydew.  Which is a coincidence because that was the name of my ill-fated 2005 tranny makeover show on Bravo.  (Reuters)

Michelle Leder: 659,210 corporate filings last year.  And I read all of them.  (footnoted)

Tiernan Ray on Day 1 at CES in Las Vegas.  (BarronsTechTrader)

Nicki Minaj just takes over New York Fashion Week.  (NYT)

Do NOT miss my daily linkfest for financial advsiors this morning!  (WSJFA)