Mr. Dimon regards himself as just trying to make a reasonable case regarding what is sensible public policy regarding banking. We would welcome a debate with him in any forum, preferably in public and with TV cameras present.
These huge banks will behave better only when and if their executives face credible criminal penalties. This simply cannot happen while these banks are anywhere near their current size.
The financial crisis hit in the summer of 2007. By the fall of 2008, Wall Street had nearly destroyed itself. Obama put forth a reform proposal in June of 2009. It is now the spring of 2010. The time for action is long overdue.
ll of which is to say, if anyone should be attending a state dinner these days, it's Dimon, whom The New York Times once dubbed "President Obama's fa...
Here's the danger: the centralization of risk and power is leading us right into another disaster. We need to get the banking oligopoly under control. But Jamie Dimon is fighting back tooth and nail. And that's why we must fight Jamie Dimon.
Simon Johnson and James Kwak, the authors of 13 Bankers, appeared on "Bill Moyers Journal" Friday evening to discuss the financial crisis and the push...
It occurred to me that, somewhere along the way, people might be curious about understanding bigger banks in some context other than political vilification.
The White House is putting the full-court press on the financial industry to get it to stop resisting financial reform efforts that are making their w...
Graduation speaker choices rarely satisfy student bodies -- speakers are either too famous or not famous enough. But some in Syracuse University's cla...
The students at Syracuse University are absolutely right: Dimon's a poor role model. We should be proud that they don't want life guidance from someone who has made a career of plundering the economy in the pursuit of non-productive wealth.
With millions of homeowners losing their homes to foreclosure during this recession, megabank JPMorgan Chase plans to argue against the Obama administ...
JPMorgan Chase's success is based, in part, on being the largest underwriter of coal companies that engage in mountaintop removal coal mining, which has turned countless Appalachian communities into ghost towns.
About 30 students gathered in Schine Student Center's Panasci Lounge on Wednesday to form a plan of action to remove JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Execut...
Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan, has decided that battling financial regulation is now one of his prime responsibilities. That, at least, is the pict...
Hilarious news comes today that JPMorgan Chase was socked with a "record" fine from the United Kingdom Financial Services Authority -- for $49 million.
There are two kinds of bankers to fear. The first is incompetent and runs a big bank. The second type of banker is much more dangerous. This person runs a big bank and -- here's the danger -- makes it even bigger.
In his annual letter to shareholders, Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase, criticized the "demonization" of big banks and argued for the economic b...
Shareholders who dish out millions to an elite CEO should of course expect a lot in return. The CEO who provided the best bang for the buck, according...
That everyone is a media critic these days is something of a truism. But when criticism comes from as unlikely a quarter as Delaware's Court of Chance...
The supposed student uprising at Syracuse University landed with a predictable and pathetic thud on Sunday, as only a handful of the 4,000 graduating students took off their caps and gowns in the planned symbolic protest of JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon's commencement speech.
As women and as taxpayers, we are writing to tell Senator Dodd that size matters. As he gets ready to take up bank reform in committee next week, we need to talk.
The Jamie Dimon controversy was a bust, but not without some entertaining moments after the JPMorgan CEO finished his commencement speech at Syracuse University.