Jamie Dimon

Hot Links: Faber on Cramer, Kwak on Dimon & My Parents Were Awesome

Hot Links for Weekend Reading… Note To Jamie Dimon: Repeating Something Doesn’t Make it True – Kwak dismantles Big Bank Benefit Op-Ed. (BaselineScenario) Corporate board rules under the new Dodd finance reform bill.  Important read for investors.  (TBP) Two Madoff IT geeks arrested.  I say Hang ’em High, he couldn’t have done it without them. …

Hot Links: Dobbs, Rogers, Dimon & The Cloud

Stuff I’m Reading this Morning… Post of the Day:  Is everyone investing by the seat of their pants?  (AbnormalReturns) JPMorgan’s Dimon is “helping shape” what the new bank regulation will look like.  (Forbes) Unfortunately for Dimon, the big banks are probably f@cked if Rep Kanjorski has his way.  (Bloomberg) Paul Krugman bashes Fox Business.  Can’t…

A Letter From 2019

Dear Josh, It’s me: Josh…the You from 10 years from now, using the latest technology from Google to send an email to you from the future.  Don’t freak out. Anyway, I’m just writing to let you know that the next ten years will be wacky, but everything turns out ok.  For regulatory reasons, I obviously…

Dimon Loves Retail Stockbrokers

I caught this in the New York Post this morning, thought it was pretty cool: “I love the retail broker business because my dad is a broker and my grandfather was a broker and it was the first job I ever had,” Jamie Dimon, 53, said at a Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association meeting…

Tomorrow's Business Headlines?

I’m not saying these hypothetical headlines are likely, but I also wouldn’t fall out of my chair if one of ’em popped up in some variation or another. “JPMorgan’s Dimon Jealous Of AIG And Citi, Wants Back In To The TARP” “Four Hundred Percent Of All Homeowners Underwater On Two Hundred Fifty Percent Of Their…

Breakfast Links: Meatbags & the Cheese Purse

Stuff I’m Reading this Morning… Are you ready for the torrent of earnings as 143 of the S&P 500 companies report this week?  Here’s a preview:  (TheStreet.com) Dissecting Joseph Stiglitz, this era’s “rockstar” economist.  (Economist’s View) Pimco and a group of bondholders bail out CIT.  Yay, I think…  (Reuters) The battle for White House influence…

Breakfast Links: Ben Stein, Rock Radio & Intern Eating Contests

Stuff I’m Reading This Morning… Felix Salmon calls Ben Stein a predator, or a shill for a predator…tomato, tomaato.  (Reuters) Goldman announces it’s acquisition of the Treasury Dep’t…LOL!  (Andy Borowitz) Jamie Dimon on a CIT Bankruptcy:  “Whatever, dog.”  (DealBook) It’s Summertime!  So let the intern eating contests begin on The Street!  (Dealbreaker) Is the “Equity-Merchant…

Dimon, Lewis and Mack Save the Rec Center

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pspmBbbOHh8] Watching the big banks’ money-raising efforts come to fruition over the last several weeks, one cannot help but think of the happy endings of several 80’s movies that made a deep impression on me in my formative years. Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo comes to mind.  Never mind that the film was robbed of an…

Congrat's to Jamie Dimon, On Time's 100 Most Influential List

Magazine editors love making lists for the simple reason that people love buying magazines that contain lists.  Everyone loves a ranking, even a nonsensical ranking, like a list of the most influential people in the world. Time Magazine put out its World’s Most Influential 100 People in 2009 list this week and as usual, the…