Friday, May 11, 2012

Wall Street's Go-To Guy Screws Up





According to the Wall St Journaql James Dimon has been one of the nation's most successful and outspoken bank executives since the financial crisis, the go-to guy who bought flailing Bear Stearns Cos. Inc. for a song and snapped up Washington Mutual Inc. after the thrift collapsed.

On Thursday, Mr. Dimon was handed a piece of humble pie as the bank revealed a $2 billion trading loss on bad bets by one of its units.

"I am not sure how many times I can say this: It was bad strategy, executed poorly," Mr. Dimon said of the losses the company suffered in the past six weeks….

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