As they say, real life is sometimes stranger than fiction. If you haven’t been paying attention, a number of high profile bankers have committed “suicide” over the last 30 days. Mostly, by “jumping” from the rooftops of their office towers. Seven of them to be exact (please see the list below) With three of them being from the JP Morgan Chase.
So, is there something in the air that is forcing these otherwise wealthy bankers at the prime of their career to commit suicide? Did we have a 1929 style market crash or is that a new termination policy at the major banks? Am I missing something here?
Any notion that all of the said bankers have committed suicide is laughable. Take Richard Talley for instance, who ended up shooting himself 8 times with a nail gun in both torso and head. How is that even possible? Plus, with multiple connections between the dead bankers, particularly those working at JP Morgan Chase, something doesn’t add up.
Recently Madoff acknowledge that top brass at JP Morgan knew about his Ponzi scheme for over 10 years. Letting it go on and collecting massive fees in the process. This was part of a $2 Billion settlement JPM reached a few months back. So, is JPM terminating its own employees or is this a hit ordered by someone?
Here are my two cents. I don’t think JPM has anything to do with this, but I do believe the people in question have found themselves on the wrong side of a trade or they have screwed someone. Big time. Perhaps an organized crime group, maybe a government. Basically, they took someone’s money (whether legitimately or not) and that someone put a hit on them. Simple as that. Just another point of reference that Wall Street is turning into a war zone.
The lesson for Wall Street bankers is as follows. Next time you screw most of the world out of billions of dollars (mortgage backed meltdown), there might be people, organizations or governments out there crazy enough to put a hit out on you.
One thing is for sure, dead bankers don’t talk.
List of dead bankers
-Li Jie – 33 year old investment banker at JP Morgan jumped to his death from the roof of the bank’s headquarters in Central Hong Kong yesterday. Witnesses said the man went to the roof of the 30-storey Chater House in the heart of Hong Kong’s central business district and, despite attempts to talk him down, jumped to his death.
– On January 26, former Deutsche Bank executive Broeksmit was found dead at his South Kensington home after police responded to reports of a man found hanging at a house. According to reports, Broeksmit had “close ties to co-chief executive Anshu Jain.”
– Gabriel Magee, a 39-year-old senior manager at JP Morgan’s European headquarters, jumped 500ft from the top of the bank’s headquarters in central London on January 27, landing on an adjacent 9 story roof.
– Mike Dueker, the chief economist at Russell Investments, fell down a 50 foot embankment in what police are describing as a suicide. He was reported missing on January 29 by friends, who said he had been “having problems at work.”
– Richard Talley, 57, founder of American Title Services in Centennial, Colorado, was also found dead earlier this month after apparently shooting himself with a nail gun.
– 37-year-old JP Morgan executive director Ryan Henry Crane died last week.
– Tim Dickenson, a U.K.-based communications director at Swiss Re AG, also died last month, although the circumstances surrounding his death are still unknown.
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one question : Yen – what’s your scenario for the japanese currency? Or, is it Yen still save heaven, besides the lunatic measures from BoJ? Especially usd/jpy pair. I’m dollar bull, but in a case of a market meltdown yen will benefit also. Anyway, when Facebook announced that they will pay for What’s up some combined $19 billion I became almost 100% sure about the bull market is over, especially for Nasdaq. And Facebook with its ridiculous market cap of cca $177 billion..Because I’m mostly in jpy pairs, I’m interested in your opinion about that. I’ve read your article about Japan and agree about the nonsense of devaluing the currency in order to achieve prosperity.
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Hi Bobby,
To be honest with you I don’t participate in the currency markets very much as such I am not qualified to give advice here. I know what’s going on in Japan on macro level and I know what should happen because of that……but by no means can I provide timing or further analysis here. It would be garbage. The only suggestion I can make is concentrate on the technical aspect of both currencies and not so much on the fundamental. I just don’t know here.
I agree, I think people will look back a few years from now and mark this Whatsapp buy as the top. It’s crazy. Facebook is on my short list, but I won’t do it until it breaks down. Thank you for recommending my site. I appreciate it.
With the oil, Libor, energy and forex manipulation now exposed my guess is that a message is being sent loud and clear to any would be whistle blowers before the mother of all manipulations, namely precious metals is laid to bare.
Prime suspect? Guess who.
Hi Paul,
Thank you for your comment. They shall remain nameless 🙂