DIMON IN THE ROUGH

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Jamie Dimon Has Nothing to Say to the House that He Couldn’t Tell the Senate

Or at least not much: An industrious chap at The New York Times held Jamie Dimon’s prepared remarks to the Senate Banking Committee last week next to testimony posted on the website of the House Financial Services Committee, before which Mr. Dimon will appear tomorrow, and found that the two documents were virtually the same.

Which is a bit of a drag. Mr. Dimon’s Senate testimony last week was so uneventful that the punditry took to remarking on the JPMorgan chief executive officer’s couture—and sure, we can play that game: We’d like to suggest that Mr. Dimon’s presidential cufflinks were a ploy to distract observers from the substance of his testimony, but given the snooze-fest in the Senate last week, it was more likely a test to see who was staying awake. Read More