{"id":184373,"date":"2012-05-19T19:45:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-20T00:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/05\/19\/another-shoe-drops-for-jp-morgan\/"},"modified":"2012-05-19T19:45:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-20T00:45:00","slug":"another-shoe-drops-for-jp-morgan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/05\/19\/another-shoe-drops-for-jp-morgan\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Shoe Drops for JP Morgan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That $2 billion that they lost in obscure casino games?  Well now <a href=\"http:\/\/dealbook.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/16\/jpmorgans-trading-loss-is-said-to-rise-at-least-50\/\">it&#8217;s at least 3 billion<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>The trading losses suffered by JPMorgan Chase have surged in recent days, surpassing the bank\u2019s initial $2 billion estimate by at least $1 billion, according to people with knowledge of the losses.<\/p>\n<p>When Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan\u2019s chief executive, announced the losses last Thursday, he indicated they could double within the next few quarters. But that process has been compressed into four trading days as hedge funds and other investors take advantage of JPMorgan\u2019s distress, fueling faster deterioration in the underlying credit market positions held by the bank.<\/p>\n<p>A spokeswoman for the bank declined to comment, although Mr. Dimon has said the total paper trading losses will be volatile depending on day-to-day market fluctuations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;re going to end up bailing out these ratf%$#s in the next few years, mark my words.<\/p>\n<p>It will either be directly, or indirectly through their counter-parties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That $2 billion that they lost in obscure casino games? Well now it&#8217;s at least 3 billion: The trading losses suffered by JPMorgan Chase have surged in recent days, surpassing the bank\u2019s initial $2 billion estimate by at least $1 billion, according to people with knowledge of the losses. When Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan\u2019s chief executive, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1004,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-finance","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184373"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}