Some decades back, the late MIT economist Lester Thurow wrote this: “Essentially, the economic problem is like that of the wolf and the caribou. If the wolves eat all the caribou, the wolves also vanish.” What Thurow did not take into consideration is that if the wolf pack is large enough, it can survive for […]
This Is Fun: Rep. Porter Puts Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase in the Hot Seat…
Because CEO Jamie Dimon likes to prop himself up as being a wise banker who manages a $2.6 trillion bank, Rep Porter challenged him to help her figure out how a young mom with one child could live on $16.50 as a Bank Teller living in her district which is Irvine, California. It’s fun to […]
The Fed’s Glue-Sniffing Announcement Yesterday Involving JPMorgan Chase…
Federal Reserve inspectors appear to be on some kind of mind-altering drug or their superiors are simply taking their marching orders from Wall Street cronies in the Trump Administration. Yesterday the Fed released a terse 104-word statement indicating that the largest and serially charged bank in the U.S., JPMorgan Chase, had shown “evidence of substantial […]
As Regulators Squirm in their Seats at Hearing, JPMorgan and Citigroup Get Slapped with More Rigging Charges by EU…
At a House Financial Services Committee hearing yesterday, Republicans attempted to marshal arguments for why U.S. banks needed more relief from regulatory oversight. Those arguments weren’t helped by the news of the day. As the hearing got underway, headlines were being promulgated around the globe that JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and three foreign banks had been […]
JPMorgan Faces Potential Class Action Lawsuit After Guilty Pleas by Former Precious Metals Trader…
Traders from across the U.S. are banding together to accuse J. P. Morgan Chase of manipulating precious metals markets for years. At least six lawsuits, all making similar allegations against the nation’s largest bank, have been filed in New York federal court in the past month, since federal prosecutors in Connecticut unveiled a plea agreement […]
Illinois Comptroller: “The State Can No Longer Function”…
With just 10 days to go until Illinois enters its third year without a budget, resulting in the state’s imminent downgrade to junk status and potentially culminating in a default for the state whose unpaid bills now surpass $15 billion, Democratic Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza issued a warning to Illinois Gov. Rauner and other elected […]
Eight Years Later, Taxpayers Are Still Bailing Out Wall Street…
Eight-years after taxpayers rescued the U.S. financial system, some of the country’s largest banks, including JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo, continue to receive billions in bailout money, according to government data…
The Forgotten Victims by David Dayen…
Ever since Wall Street bankers cratered the global economy in 2009, federal prosecutors have barely been able to keep up with the unprecedented scale of corporate wrongdoing. Last year, in a series of high-profile settlements, Citicorp, JPMorgan Chase, Barclays, and the Royal Bank of Scotland agreed to…
Strange Deaths of JPMorgan Workers Continue…
Last Thursday, September 22, 2016, the body of Ann Korkki, a Senior Administrative Assistant in the Wealth Management division of JPMorgan Chase in Denver, Colorado was found with the body of her sister, Robin Korkki, inside their luxury vacation villa at the Maia Resort on Seychelles…
If Elizabeth Warren Wants to Probe Worker Abuse on Wall Street, Start With the Unprecedented Rash of Deaths and Suicides…
If Senators Warren, Sanders, Merkley and Brown genuinely want to change their party’s jaded image as Wall Street Democrats, they will use this timely opportunity to demand that the OCC turn over its records on the profits flowing to Wall Street from these untimely deaths of young people…