Jamie Dimon’s Belt Buckle

Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JP Morgan Chase, with the "fortress balance sheet", is wearing quite the belt buckle on Fox Business channel. Despite JP Morgan losing billions of dollars in the London Whale fiasco, and being ordered to fix "capital planning" issues found during the latest the stress test, Dimon doesn't seem to lose his confidence.

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JPMorgan Chase & Co Thanksgiving Commercial

People were either reduced to tears by the JP Morgan commercial over Thanksgiving or wanted to throw up. But overall, a too big to fail bailed out bank putting out an ad over the holiday just doesn't sit too kindly with most who know their history. Didn't they just lose close to $9 billion on a trade that went bad? That's a lot of turkey or pie or stuffing or whichever Thanksgiving themed dish you prefer. The question is though: How much did the ad cost JP Morgan to make and run?

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Jamie Dimon Buys 500,000 Shares of JP Morgan

Wel, well, well, it looks like Jamie Dimon is trying to send a message to everyone that he thinks his bank is undervalued right now. Dimon bought 500,000 share of JPM at an average price of $34.01 to $34.46.

“I expect this is meant as a sign of his confidence in the bank,” John Coffee, a securities-law professor at Columbia University Law School, said in an e-mail. (Bloomberg)

Dimon sold some of his preferred shares of JPM, though. The stock didn't move much on the news. Here's the SEC Form showing the stock transactions by Dimon.

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The Decision: Cliched Metaphor Picked By Jamie Dimon to Describe Trading Loss

In the weeks leading up to the JP Morgan conference call, Jamie Dimon met with this team in a secret location to "hammer out" what phrase they should use to describe the London Whale trade and the resulting loss of $5.8 billion over two quarters. The team met late into the night in a secret New York office until it final hit Jamie Dimon that the best phrase was, "shot ourselves in the foot". The phrase was chosen with the utmost of care, as Jamie Dimon's previous reference to the trade as a "tempest in a teapot" showed

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Jim Cramer Calls Jamie Dimon a Loser

I get the feeling Jamie Dimon doesn't mind all the attention. See his smile and little dance number for the cameras towards the end of the video. I wonder if he was singing the lyrics to that Beck song:

"Soy un perdedor/I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?"

That said, Jim Cramer made it clear that he thinks Jamie Dimon is a loser despite the fact that he "performed" well in front of the Senate Banking Committee. Dimon was cool and calm and didn't make any statements that would bring more negative attention to JP Morgan. However, Cramer

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Jamie Dimon’s Diary

Getty Images Scene: Jamie Dimon at his desk writing in his diary. There's a mirror over the desk that he looks up at from time to time. Date: 5/10/12 Today was a tough day, but it wasn't your fault. Yes, you knew about the hedged bet...it was said to be under control. No, you are not like Jon Corzine. Stop saying that. You're nothing like Corzine. Stop beating yourself up. JP Morgan is still a bank with a fortress balance sheet. Never forget that. Sure, $2 billion is a lot of money but just look at what you've done over the last three

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Cramer Says Jamie Dimon Should Give Up His Bonus

At the end of Jim Cramer's Mad Money show on CNBC, he weighed in on the JP Morgan $2 billion "hedged" trading loss. Cramer said talk his cheap and Dimon should take some action, put some money where is mouth is, as in give up his bonus.

In his "No Huddle Offense" segment, Cramer sounded off on the JPMorgan Chase (JPM_) bad-trade debacle, as his charitable trust, Action Alerts PLUS, is in the unfortunate position of holding shares of the ill-fated investment bank. Cramer said he can't blame CEO Jamie Dimon, but it's his job to be more skeptical. He admitted that his trust

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Jamie Dimon’s Fortress Balance Sheet

JP Morgan, the so called greatest bank in the world, with the greatest banker in the world at the helm, Jamie Dimon, could face $3 billion in trading loses due to poor risk management. Dimon says an incident like this is why you have a "fortress balance sheet." Well, a couple more of these "incidents" and that "fortress balance sheet" will start to fall apart. Here's the news from the Wall Street Journal:

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., the nation’s largest bank, surprised the market today, saying it has taken large losses stemming from derivatives bets gone wrong in

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Leaked Tearful Plea From Jamie Dimon’s Upcoming Conference Call

Those who were there, in the room, say a single tear fell down the side of Jamie Dimon's cheek as he rehearsed for JP Morgan's upcoming conference call, practicing what he would say to the financial world:

"I ask you to stop the hate. I just can't take it anymore. I am not a bad person. Yes, I'm rich but I've worked hard to get where I am. I'm just a banker trying to do good. To loan money. To create jobs. To help our shareholders. To help America become great again. To build the best bank in the

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Breaking: The Inevitable Jamie Dimon Rant About How Stress Test For JP Morgan is Unnecessary

CNBC alerts us to the Federal Reserve plans to stress test the six large U.S. banks against a hypothetical market shock, including a deterioration of the European debt crisis. Below is the inevitable Jamie Dimon quote on how JP Morgan doesn't need to do a stress test and how he's tried of being lumped together with all these other crummy banks:

"Why in the hell do we have to go through a stress test. JP Morgan is the best bank in the world. We don't need to raise any capital. We are prepared for any kind of European crisis.

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