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Jamie Dimon Agrees With Occupy Wall Street: 'Too Much Inequality'

by Eamon Murphy, Mar 20th 2013 6:00PM

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Jamie Dimon has said many notable things over the years, from calling a multibillion dollar trading loss "a complete tempest in a teapot" to answering a critical analyst's doubts by explaining, "That's why I'm richer than you." The JPMorgan Chase (JPM) CEO made news again Tuesday, while delivering the keynote address at the 2013 Annual Greater Louisville Inc. meeting.

According to Chris Otts of The Courier-Journal, Dimon told his audience that the United States has "too much inequality." This isn't a novel insight -- the Occupy Wall Street protests were predicated on this idea, expressed through the slogan "we are the 99 percent" -- but it's striking to hear it coming from Wall Street's most outspoken defender of financial elites.

"It doesn't mean we blame the successful," Dimon continued, sounding more characteristic, "but it's true. You want to have problems in society? Have inequality." Dimon mentioned "struggling inner-city public schools" in particular, Otts reports.

The statements represent a slight rhetorical softening for Dimon, who has in the past rejected the anti-banker sentiment that arose after the financial crisis of 2008. "Acting like everyone who's been successful is bad and because you're rich you're bad, I don't understand it," he said in late 2011 at an investors' conference in New York. Since then, a lot has changed for JPMorgan: the bank, seen as the most successful of the financial behemoths during the crisis, was recently the subject of a "riveting and devastating" Senate panel report that accused Dimon and other executives of hiding trading losses from investors and regulators.

According to The New York Times, a criminal investigation of this affair -- known popularly, after the trader who caused the losses, as "the London Whale" -- is "at an advanced stage."

Over at AlterNet, Lynn Stuart Parramore traces "The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Jamie Dimon, Wall Street's Golden Boy," presenting his life story as "a critique of the American Dream." Dimon, she argues, was singularly concerned with pursuing wealth, although in his early days as JPM CEO he "was widely perceived as a smart and cautious leader, shrewdly avoiding many of the fancy financial engineering tricks that were all the rage on Wall Street." And a society that has long viewed material flourishing as a sign of God's favor -- perhaps in some secularized form, more recently -- embraced the "success" Dimon so often touts, along with his self-professed prudence (embodied by his favorite catchphrase, "fortress balance sheet"), as a sign of goodness. President Barack Obama, for instance, held up JPMorgan and its leader as exemplars of American finance: "there are a lot of banks that are actually pretty well managed," the president said in Feb. 2009, explaining why his administration did not seek to replace executives at bailed-out firms, "JPMorgan being a good example. Jamie Dimon, the CEO there, I don't think should be punished for doing a pretty good job managing an enormous portfolio." (That balance sheet, incidentally, is by now almost one-ninth the size of the U.S. economy.)

Those days of public favor are over. Particularly damning is a report by Johsua Rosner, a longtime chronicler of Wall Street malfeasance, succinctly entitled "JPMorgan Chase: Out of Control." The blog Naked Capitalism called it "astonishing"; as one reads the report, writer David Dayen averred, "it's hard to see the bank as anything but a criminal racket just days away form imploding, were it not propped up by implicit bailout guarantees and light-touch regulators."

All of this might have been on Dimon's mind when he gave Tuesday's keynote, adopting a tone more in line with the concerns of ordinary Americans, while not exactly abandoning his defensive stance regarding "success". What Dimon has yet to do, at least publicly, is acknowledge the connection between anger at the banks and dismay at the consequences of inequality: namely, that public subsidy of financial institutions -- which, according to Bloomberg, consumes about three cents of every tax dollar collected -- diverts resources that might otherwise be applied toward socially useful ends. For instance, funding those struggling inner-city schools.

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Executive Summary JPM Out Of Control

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Husband, wife found dead in Chesterfield. Murder-Suicide caused by Foreclosure.

Husband, wife found dead in Chesterfield murder-suicide

Police: It appears husband shot wife, set fires, then shot himself

Posted: Saturday, March 16, 2013 12:00 am | Updated: 12:07 am, Sat Mar 16, 2013.

BY JOE MACENKA AND MARK BOWES
Richmond Times-Dispatch

A husband and wife who police said were having marital problems were found fatally shot inside their burning home late Thursday as the apparent result of a murder-suicide.
The bodies of the couple, identified as Walter M. Hester Jr., 50, and his wife, Clara M. Morgan-Hester, 46, were discovered on different floors of their two-story house after firefighters responded to a fire inside at 11:30 p.m., police said.

Investigators said evidence suggests Hester shot his wife and set several fires in the residence before turning the handgun on himself. Family members told police that one of the two had discussed leaving the other, and police said they believe that prompted the events leading to the shootings and fire.
Police said they could find no documented history of domestic violence at the family’s home, which is in the 2000 block of Castle Glen Court, just off Providence Road West and a short distance north of Rockwood Park.
Chesterfield police Lt. Randy Horowitz said the weapon used was a handgun that police believe was Hester’s. The couple had a teenage son who was not home at the time of the shootings and is now staying with relatives, Horowitz said.
The family had lived at the cul-de-sac home since purchasing it in 2004, county real estate records show.
But it went into foreclosure Oct. 25, according to listings on Richmond BizSense.com.
Hester was self-employed doing landscaping and yard work; Morgan-Hester worked for an area bank, Horowitz said.
Chesterfield firefighters were called to respond to reports of a house fire late Thursday, and the first units on the scene found smoke and fire coming from the structure. The blaze was brought under control in 20-25 minutes, said Lt. Jason Elmore with Chesterfield Fire & EMS.
“The fire was in several areas of the house. It wasn’t contained to one area,” said Elmore, who added that the areas where fire was found were not adjoining.
Elmore said the bulk of the fire was just inside the front door, although investigators were continuing their attempts to establish the point of the fire’s origin.
“We don’t have a specific area of origin right now,” Elmore said early Friday morning. “It’s possible there could be multiple origins.”
After the fire was brought under control, firefighters were able to begin an interior search of the house, and they found the two bodies.
“I believe one was on the first floor and one was on the second,” he said.
As investigators worked at the scene, broken windows were visible on the first and second floors, and there was fire debris and torn vinyl siding outside the residence, including a pile just outside the front door.
Yellow police tape surrounded the home, which is in a neighborhood of well-maintained colonials and Cape Cods.
Several neighbors said they were stunned by the deaths of the Hesters, whom they described as a fairly typical married couple.
“They were very quiet,” said Lara Leyendecker. “I never heard them arguing. They kept their yard nice and their house nice.”
“This is just really … ” she said, her voice trailing off. “What can you say?”
jmackena@timesdispatch.com
(804) 649-6331
mbowes@timesdispatch.com
(804) 649-6450
Staff writer Reed Williams
contributed to this report.