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October 26, 2009

Giants of Wall Street

ABA Bankers.jpg

Visual note from the American Bankers Association protests (1, 2) in Chicago:

The ginormous name tags on JP Morgan’s Jamie Dimon and Wells Fargo’s John Stumpf (or Dimon and B of A’s Ken Lewis here) are not there, at this point, to inform protestors who they are. They are there to emphasize how much Wall Street movers-and-shakers have protected and profited from their anonymity.

(photo: Tim Boyle/Bloomberg via Getty Images. caption:Demonstrators protest outside the hotel holding the American Bankers Association’s annual meeting in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., on Monday, Oct. 26, 2009. A top American Bankers Association official defended its membership against demonstrators gathering in Chicago to protest the industry’s response to the financial crisis.)

  • Johanna

    Actually, they’re there because this whole thing took place in Chicago.

  • KingElvis

    Dean Baker has said that, at least in theory, tea baggers should be along with the progressives on this one. Unfortunately, I don’t think their temperaments are the same – and would baggers brook the participation of (gasp) black women – and they’re wearing RED shirts.
    Schisms in the populists, and the bankster gangsters are grouped tighter than the shields of a legion of Roman soldiers, repelling the barbarian hordes that outnumber them millions to one.

  • http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/warning/ yg

    these are the 3 men responsible for the economic meltdown. it’s they who should be burned in effigy (if not investigated and prosecuted):

    THE WARNING
    In the midst of the 1990s bull market, one lone [woman] regulator warned about derivatives’ dangers — and overnight became the enemy of some of the most powerful people in Washington…

    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/warning/