President Barack Obama is heading into the den of private equity tonight with an urgent plea: Please re-elect me. His visit to New York apartment of Tony James, the number two at Blackstone, the world’s largest private equity firm, comes on the...
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Barack Obama posters in New York.
Obama Pays His Own Visit to House of Private Equity
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James Stewart, Donna Reed, and Thomas Mitchell in 'It's a Wonderful Life.'
A Canadian Banker Washington Could Grow to Love
The last real bank is in Canada. While he’s not specifically referring to JPMorgan and the $2 billion loss that’s the talk of New York and Washington, Edmund Clark at Toronto-Dominion Bank says banks should be “old-fashioned.” “What fundamentally happened...
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PMorgan Chase & Co. headquarters in New York.
Bernie Sanders to Banks: It’s Time to Break Up
Washington’s anti-Wall Street crowd just got really, really lucky. JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s announcement yesterday of a $2 billion trading loss from a steep bet it made is giving congressmen like Senator Bernie Sanders a renewed boost in their crusade against big banks....
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JPMorgan Chase & Co. chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon.
Jamie Dimon With $2 Billion ‘Egg on His Face’
Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JP Morgan Chase and one of the most vocal defenders of the financial industry in Washington, may find himself in a tough spot now. Yesterday he announced the firm had a $2 billion trading loss after...
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