Topic: Jamie Dimon

Cory Booker's Private Equity Gaffe Is Going Great for Cory Booker

NBC News

Newark Mayor Cory Booker's appearance on Meet the Press in which he condemned attacks on Mitt Romney's career at Bain Capital as "nauseating" and urging Democrats to "Stop attacking private equity" went great -- for Cory Booker.

By Alexander Abad-Santos

May 18, 2012

Jamie Dimon's Poker Face

How you would react if your company was bleeding hundreds of millions of dollars a day and you had meetings with the likes of Mark Zuckerberg and Meet The Press?  Do what Jamie Dimon did: Just pretend everything's fine and above all, make sure your hoodie looks awesome. 

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

May 17, 2012

JPMorgan Shrugs Off Another Another Billion Dollars in Losses

It's just getting harder to trust financial experts isn't it? There's news that JPMorgan's $2 billion loss, was actually off by, well, about a billion dollars. But, hey, what's a billion among friends?

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By Jen Doll

May 15, 2012

Rebekah Brooks and Ina Drew: When Women in Power Are Punished

What does Ina Drew, former J.P. Morgan executive at the center of the bank's recent loss, have in common with Rebekah Brooks?

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By Eric Randall

May 15, 2012

Cliché Watch

'Dimon in the Rough' Is Not an Insult

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon may be having a rough time after his bank lost $2 billion on a bad trading position, but it does not mean he is sparkly on the inside.

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By Adam Clark Estes

May 15, 2012

JP Morgan May Screw Up, But Obama Still Admires Jamie Dimon

Despite all the chatter of Barack Obama and Jamie Dimon parting ways, the President continues to find time in his schedule to compliment the JP Morgan Chase chief executive.

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By Connor Simpson

May 13, 2012

JPMorgan Scandal Claims Its First Casualty

The first executive head to roll at JPMorgan Chase will be Ina R. Drew, the chief investment officer responsible for overseeing the trades that led to the $2 billion trading loss that was announced on Thursday.

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By Connor Simpson

May 13, 2012

The Sunday Grind

Dimon Apologizes; Lieberman Announces Secret Service Hearing

JPMorgan Chase boss Jamie Dimon appeared on NBC's Meet the Press to apologize for how he behaved after the bank's $2 billion loss was revealed; Joe Lieberman announced there will be a congressional hearing over the Colombian Secret Service scandal.

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By Dashiell Bennett

May 11, 2012

Why Don't We Know More About the 'London Whale'?

Perhaps the most surprising thing about a man who was able to move trillion dollar markets in a single bet, is that we know so little about him. Especially when everyone has known what he was up to for weeks.

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By Adam Martin

May 11, 2012

The Feds Are Now Looking into JPMorgan Chase

Things just went from bad to worse for JP Morgan Chase. Losing $2 billion is bad enough, but now it turns out the SEC is looking into the bank's trading practices as possible "civil violations" in addition to the "egregious mistakes" CEO Jamie Dimon has already conceded.

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By John Hudson

May 11, 2012

What Color Will Jamie Dimon's Parachute Be?

It just took one phone call but the career of Jamie Dimon "the King of Wall Street" and CEO of JP Morgan Chase is on the line.

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By Dashiell Bennett

May 11, 2012

Does the Latest Failure of Bank Regulation Mean Banks Can't Be Regulated?

Almost four years after Americans became obsessed the idea of "too big to fail," JPMorgan found a way to lose $2 billion in one quarter without breaking a sweat — or any securities laws. 

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By Adam Clark Estes

May 10, 2012

JPMorgan's Big Surprise: We Lost $2 Billion in 'Egregious Mistakes'

JPMorgan Chase revealed in a late-day SEC filing on Thursday that it's lost $2 billion due to some reckless trading of synthetic credit securities.

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By Adam Martin

May 3, 2012

Did Jamie Dimon Just Agree with Occupy Wall Street?

One thing we did not expect to hear J.P. Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon say is that Occupy Wall Street had "legitimate complaints," especially given that he thinks the financial industry gets victimized when it comes to placing blame for the world's problems.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Dec 21, 2011

Billionaires Say the Darndest Things About Those Occupy Protesters

Bloomberg Businessweek is getting a lot mileage out of its recent report on what the 1 Percent -- it mostly quotes just the millionaires and billionaires -- is saying about the protesters standing up for the interests of the 99 Percent.

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By Ray Gustini

Sep 28, 2011

The Smart Set

Jamie Dimon's Not-So-Secret Meeting with Mitt Romney

Plus: Susan Sarandon is briefly occupied, Jamie Rubin out at Bloomberg View

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By Elspeth Reeve

Jul 15, 2011

The Latest Ideas on What Happens If the Debt Ceiling Isn't Raised

Pretty much everyone agrees: crisis. But the details are interesting

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By Adam Clark Estes

Jul 1, 2011

Who's Brave Enough to Take Tim Geithner's Job?

The Treasury Secretary may or may not step down, but speculation has started

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By Adam Clark Estes

Jun 8, 2011

Jamie Dimon: Wall Street's Hero for a Day

Bankers love the JPMorgan CEO for challenging the Fed. Others are less sure

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By Ray Gustini

May 24, 2011

'Too Big To Fail': Dull, Confusing and Absolutely Worth Your Time

The reviews for HBO's adaptation of Andrew Ross Sorkin's bestseller are in

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By Alex Eichler

Apr 8, 2011

Bankers Kick Frugality Out the Window and No One Notices

Jamie Dimon's pay package doubled, not that you'd know from The Wall Street Journal

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