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What’s in a name?

…no matter the labels thrown upon them, going back 1000s of years. Its recurring features — concentrated power, weak accountability mechanisms, suppression of organized opposition — are structural problems of…

‘Deficit Debate Driven by the Wealthy’

…their own prerogatives while declaring everyone else’s to be wasteful. Just two weeks ago, a squadron of CEOs and bankers, including Dimon and hedge fund billionaire Pete Peterson, lined up…

Elizabeth Warren campaigns in MA

…questions and answers regarding JP Morgan and Jamie Dimon from the wonky economic policy and regulatory angle: EK: That gets us to the Volcker rule, which is what would keep…

extractionism

…one prominent securities lawyer told her “he knows investors who he said if Jamie Dimon came into somebody’s house and killed the children of these people, he said they would…

It’s A Miracle?

…slogan.* *And that’s ignoring that the second-largest contributor to that gain is Finance and Insurance. Rick Perry probably gives Jamie Dimon a big, wet kiss every time they meet. Rick…

Capital, Labor, and Modernization

…the Royal Mail becomes just a contemporary example of bad economic policies leading to poor social outcomes. In that context, it’s not even especially noteworthy. Just ask, say, Jaime Dimon….

Economists = Idiots? Part 1829

…course, assumes the money is being invested. (As this money is, in taxing our tax dollars and giving them to Vikram Pandit, Ken Lewis, Lloyd Blankfein, and Jamie Dimon [in…