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
9. Dodd-Frank RIP
[T]his was a wake for Dodd-Frank. This wasn't just testimony. They're all gathered in this big room with lots of marble to basically just say prayers over the end of any real impetus to change the financial system.
- Heidi Moore, New York Bureau Chief for MarketPlace of American Business Media.
