2012-05-12 — bloomberg.com
Either Dimon misled the public about the gravity of the festering trades during his company's first-quarter earnings call last month. Or he didn't know what was happening inside the bowels of his own company. History tells us the latter is the norm for Wall Street bosses, though it's hard to say which is worse.
Don't bother asking JPMorgan how it accumulated all these losses. That information is proprietary, as if the taxpayers who bailed out the bank in 2008 don't have any business knowing. Here's an idea for a new rule: If a too-big-to-fail bank can't disclose what its trading desk is doing for fear of blowing itself up, then the bank shouldn't be allowed to do it.
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