StreetInsider.com's Best of the Web 8/17

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• Citigroup (NYSE: C) to persuade energy trader Andrew Hall to take stock instead of cash.


• Obama's Pay Czar Says He Can 'Claw Back' Executive Compensation


• Nearly 90% Of U.S. Paper Dollars Has Traces of Cocaine


• GM Plans $4,000 Car In Asia


• China Investment Corp (CIC) is set to invest $2B In U.S Mortgages


• Mass. Rejects Fairfield Greenwich Madoff Settlement Offer


• Catasrophe Bonds Rise On Calls for Calmer Hurrican Season


• 'Public Option' In Health Care Plan May Be Dropped


• CNBC Quotes Bernanke ... oops