What DO these bwankers know?

[odaeio]

Just coincidence? or time to think about battening down the hatches?

The latest apparent suicide marks the 3rd sudden death at JP Morgan and the 6th in the global financial world in just a few weeks.

On February 3, a 37 – year old JP Morgan executive director died at his home in Stamford, Connecticut. The cause of death, however, remains unclear and will be determined after a toxicology report is completed.

About a month ago, 39-year-old Gabriel Magee, a JP Morgan vice president in technology operations, died after falling from JPMorgan’s London headquarters.

Other apparent business suicides include a 58-year-old former senior manager for Deutsche Bank, who was found hanged in his home; Karl Slim, the managing director of Tata Motors aged 51, and 50-year-old Mike Dueker who worked for Russell Investment and was found dead on January 29 close to the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington State after being reported missing on the same day.

Also reporter David Bird, who works in the Dow Jones newsroom went missing on January 11 when he left his New Jersey home for a walk.

http://rt.com/business/jpmorgan-third-b ... icide-655/

Sure, this last one was probably just personal pressures, but was the reporter about to say something he shouldn't?

[adam2]

I think that one can attribute too much significance to individual suicides.

A tragedy for those innvolved, but not of any wider significance IMHO.

If a banker DID know something that we do not, about any pending great crash or disaster, then forwarned is forearmed and they could prepare and be in a much better position to survive, perhaps in wealth and relative comfort.

If someone knew about a pending banking crash, then surely they would be taking money out of banks and paper investments, and buying land, property, gold, and stocks of goods.
Not taking their own life.

[RenewableCandy]

Do you think they were being blackmailed somehow? Or about to take a massive loss and couldn't stand the "shame"?

Also, there are pharmaceuticals that can make people feel suicidal, either when a course starts or just after it's stopped. The last time I heard of anyone's meds being sabotaged it was Castro by the CIA, but in an infinite universe anything is possible.

[emordnilap]

Kunstler again:

Is it not strange that there are no reports on the contents of their suicide notes, if they troubled to leave one? (And is it not unlikely that they would all exit the scene without a word of explanation?)

One of these, William Broeksmit, a risk manager for Deutsche Bank, was reportedly engaged in “unwinding positions” for that that outfit, which holds over $70 trillion in swap paper.

For scale, compare that number with Germany’s gross domestic product of about $3.4 trillion and you could get a glimmer of the mischief in motion out there.