Above image is courtesy Change to Win, who also couldn’t resist ‘shopping the Goldman-and-guns story. Today, Goldman remained on the defensive, but this time using PR instead of ammo – they released a 14 page treatise on why they’re smart, funny, and people like them, and are thus worth a budget of $16.7 bn for human capital. Meanwhile, Blankfein has also been balling with Jay-Z, and one source it’s related to private wealth management, though our sources said it had something to do with the financing for Fela!, so who knows, really.

$BAC loans $700MM to someone who blows through it in two weeks. Okay, that someone was Arizona, but still. (h/t TakeAReport)

The Reformed Broker unearths an internal memo re: the CNBC/Comcast merger. “Jim Cramer will be expressly prohibited from recommending or endorsing the following stocks during the Lightning Round:  Time Warner Cable, Dish Networks, DirecTV and Verizon.”

Exploitation video alert – this Victoria’s Secret model wants you to know you need to respect the dollar (h/t WallStreetFighter):

Random closing note: If you’ve got an Android phone and are familiar with the “Lolrus” meme (I’d wager many of you are), search for the Lolrus app. I had a role in the creation of that fine piece of ‘droidware and will be reusing the code to produce a similar app with a LOLFed theme…