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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMatt Taibbi: Jamie Dimon Dong-Slaps Inquisitive Analyst in Hilarious Exchange
from Rolling Stone:
You just can't make this stuff up.
So JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon is participating in an investor conference call. This is the semi-regular ritual where a financial executive throws out some already heavily-airbrushed numbers for a select group of financial analysts and then proceeds, over the course of an extended conference call, to further verbally airbrush the already-airbrushed company data. Some of the analysts in these calls mostly toss softballs at the bankers, but some of them have a reputation of throwing the occasional brushback pitch, injecting unwanted or uncomfortable questions into the otherwise well-protected narcissistic bubbles in which these CEOs mostly always live
Not that I know the guy, but Mike Mayo of Credit Agricole is supposedly one of those analysts that people in the industry dislike. "Kind of a dick," is how one friend of mine described him but in an admiring way, if that makes sense.
So Mayo is on this call with Dimon and he asks him a question about capital ratios, i.e. the amount of actual capital a bank has on hand as opposed to debts and liabilities. He notes that the Swiss bank UBS (which just settled in the LIBOR case, but never mind that for the moment) is saying in presentations that because it has more actual capital on hand than certain other banks like, say, Chase? customers should feel safer with them. .............(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/jamie-dimon-dong-slaps-inquisitive-analyst-in-hilarious-exchange-20130227#ixzz2MIoAaMsL
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Matt Taibbi: Jamie Dimon Dong-Slaps Inquisitive Analyst in Hilarious Exchange (Original Post)
marmar
Mar 2013
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BeyondGeography
(39,370 posts)1. That's why I'm richer than you?
Holy fuck.
riqster
(13,986 posts)2. We need entitlement reform
Mr. Dimon has an outsized sense of entitlement and needs it cut down to size. He among many.
phantom power
(25,966 posts)3. It's pretty easy to get rich when you get to write all the rules.
I'm sure I wouldn't know the exact threshold, but clearly, once you make it into The Club, actual talent or intelligence is no longer significant. All you really need is a sociopathic personality disorder. Maybe that's how you get your membership, too?