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Jamie Dimon Plays Lead in Ayn Rand Novel
The attacks on Jamie Dimon and his bank, JPMorgan, are all to reminiscent of the protagonist in Ayn Rand's novel, "Atlas Shrugged."
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"'I am sure, Mr. Rearden,' said the eldest judge, 'that you do not really believe -- nor does the public -- that we wish to treat you as a sacrificial victim. If anyone has been laboring under such a misapprehension, we are anxious to prove that it is not true.'"
The judge talking to Hank Rearden, one of the heroes of Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged," might as well have been the regulators and legal authorities talking to Jamie Dimon, chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co. Rearden was on trial for selling the metal he had created, in defiance of the state. Dimon is being sued for ... what exactly?