Yesterday, JPMorgan CEO and Wall Street Golden Boy Jamie Dimon testified before the Senate Banking Committee and critics are calling the session a veritable love fest. Even though he was called to explain his firm's stunning $2 billion (and counting) bet gone wrong, not a silver hair was ruffled on the CEO's head. Here's a selection of killer quotes from the CEO himself, a US senator who actually challenged him and media commentators who watched as Dimon swatted away the softballs without breaking a sweat.
June 14, 2012
6. Place Your Bets
The bottom line here is that what we need is a Wall Street and financial institutions that cease being the largest gambling casino in the world and start investing in the productive economy in America and start helping us to create the jobs we desperately need.
- Sen. Bernie Sanders (I – Vermont) on MSNBC.
Source: Senate
