Frontrunning: March 9

• Pharma acquisitions pick up pace: Merck buying Schering-Plough (NYT)
• The Google killer: Wolfram Alpha is coming (Twine)
• Credit markets seizing up again as LIBOR climbs... (WSJ)
• AIG holds world hostage as its demands are met repeatedly (Bloomberg)
• CNBC is on the war path (NYT)
• Let the sleeping shadow banking systems lie (Reuters)
• Another villain emerges in the Madoff saga (WSJ)
• Events are getting ahead of Geithner and his economic recovery skeleton crew (NYT)
• Bloomberg on the depression (Bloomberg)
• General Growth Properties to beg bondholders for reprieve (WSJ)
• Last year ever for a $34 million bonus (Bloomberg)