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Another JPMorgan Banker Dies, 37 Year Old Executive Director Of Program Trading

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Ordinarily we would ignore the news of another banker's death - after all these sad events happen all the time - if it wasn't for several contextual aspects of this most recent passage. First, the death in question, as reported by the Stamford Daily Voice is that of Ryan Henry Crane, a Harvard graduate, who is survived by his wife, son and parents at the very young age of 37. Second, Ryan Henry Crane was formerly employed by JPMorgan - a bank which was featured prominently in the news as recently as two weeks ago when another of its London-based employees committed suicide by jumping from the top floor of its Canary Wharf building. Third: Crane was an Executive Director in JPM's Global Program Trading desk, founded in 1999 by an ex-DE Shaw'er, a function of the firm which is instrumental to preserving JPM's impeccable and (so far in 2013) flawless trading record of zero trading losses.

There was little detail surrounding the death:

Ryan Henry Crane of Stamford died Monday, Feb. 3. He was 37.

 

Crane was born Jan. 8, 1977, and grew up in Long Valley, N.J. He graduated from The Delbarton School in Morristown in 1995. He graduated from Harvard University in 1999, after which he spent the next 14 years at J.P. Morgan in New York. He was an executive director in the Global Equities Group.

 

Crane is survived by his wife, Lauren (nee Pizzotti); son, Harry; parents Mary Jo and Lex of Long Valley, N.J.; brother, Lex of Denver, Colo.; sister, Allison; brother-in-law, John Archard of Arvada, Colo.; parents-in-law, Steve and Carol Pizzotti of Reading, Mass.; brothers- and sisters-in-law, David and Heather Pizzotti of Upper Arlington, Ohio, Stephen and Kristin Pizzotti and Chris and Felicia Pizzotti of Reading, Mass.; five nephews, three nieces; aunts, uncles; and cousins.

 

Calling hours are Sunday, Feb. 9 from 3 to 7 p.m. at the Leo P. Gallagher Funeral Home, 31 Arch St., Greenwich. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 11 a.m. Monday, Feb. 10 at St. Catherine of Siena Church, Riverside. Interment will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 11 at Puritan Lawn Memorial Park in Peabody, Mass.

Crane's LinkedIn profile confirming his senior position at one of JPM's most important market-facing verticals:

 

Below is his Finra BrokerCheck profile. Aside from having a license to trade virtually anything and anywhere as someone with his skillset would be expected to, his history was spotless:

 

The circumstances surrounding his death are scarce, but what is most notable is that not only is Crane the second very young JPMorgan banker to pass in recent days, but is also the fourth banker death in under a month. We can only hope this disturbing chain of deaths within the financial industry - one of which involved a nail-gun induced suicide - is purely accidental.

h/t SGT Report

 

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Wed, 02/12/2014 - 13:42 | 4428520 bluskyes
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They didn't send snipers, and assassins after the Jews in Poland. They sent SS grunts.

I would guess that the Seals never saw it coming. I'm sure they trusted the military, more than I trust my own government.

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 13:53 | 4428569 SgtShaftoe
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Well, it all depends how important you are.  Though one guy with a rifle, even if he's an SF super soldier, is going to get smoked if he comes up against a goon squad alone, especially while he's sleeping in his bed. 

If you're being hunted like game, you want to be in the most defensible, nastiest terrain you can find, hopefully as part of a friggin' SF ODA that will provide 24/7 security.  If they want you bad enough, they'll get you. 

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 15:01 | 4428880 seek
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Hence insurance files... so you're more dangerous dead than alive. It's worked for Snowden and Assange so far.

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 15:00 | 4428890 bluskyes
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And yet Afghanistan remains unconquered.

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 16:26 | 4429318 css1971
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And Iran remains uninvaded.

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 18:37 | 4429978 SgtShaftoe
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Yes, and it never will be, but every HVT (high value target) has gone up in flames from a drone strike, in addition to half their neighbors, kids, wedding guests, tupperware party visitors, emergency medical staff, et al...  Moral of the story: Don't be a HVT, or if you are, be less of a threat to those with such toys alive than dead. 

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 14:26 | 4428754 Bitchin Bear
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I'm always amazed whenever this event comes up that no inquiry was ever made (that I'm aware of).  I'm Just an ordinary middle-aged woman and the first thing I told my husband upon hearing of it was that they were smoked because of the faux OBL raid.  Doesn't take a rocket scientist.

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 12:46 | 4428238 RiverDrifter
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Hmm...his job would put him in charge of, or at the very least have access to the same info Gabriel Magee did over in their London office.  Magee jumped from the 33rd floor to his death.  Ryan Henry Cross died on February 3 and we're just hearing about it over a week later.  These two fellas were around the same age and privy to a lot of information via their positions in JPM.  

 

Coincidence? I think not.....what is it that they uncovered?  Did they find whatever it was together or separately?  Did one of them find something & ask the other to verify?  ...hmm....the world may never know.....

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 12:48 | 4428243 bluskyes
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I love the smell of banker's blood in the morning.

Five down, tens of thousands to go.

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 12:50 | 4428246 yogibear
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As Lloyd Blankfein would say, eliminating/terminating the out of favor banksters is doing gods work. The Just-Us department will look the other way, even murder. The financial bankster goon hit squad is busy.

Dead men tell no tails.

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 12:51 | 4428253 Papasmurf
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They are just leading by example.

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 12:51 | 4428254 Elliptico
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A degree in Euopean Histroy opens all doors.

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 12:53 | 4428262 asscannon101
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The impeccable Gene Burnett sang it best... 'Jump, You Fuckers'

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yge311sFhC8

 

 

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 12:53 | 4428268 MarsInScorpio
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Not too obvious yet, is it . . . ?

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Wed, 02/12/2014 - 13:41 | 4428467 MarsInScorpio
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But my real question is: What do they have on these people that is so shattering that death is preferable to life?

 

We are talking about putting someone in the position of utter hopelessness for their future - namely that they have no future whatsoever in any way imaginable.

 

No reinventing themself, no occupation track change, no family to grow with, nothing.

 

It appears that the long-held belief that today's financial world is a global "mafia" is true. I really don't know how you can watch someone as young as 37 - who has a lot of time left to rebuild his career - die like this unless he knows he is going to die one way or the other to keep him quiet about whatever illegal activities are occuring at JPM, and by extension, all the other TBTF  and TBTP banks and Wall Strret firms.

 

This is truely a scary situation - it can only mean that another "tin-foil hat conspiracy theory" is soon to become a fact.

 

The fallout: The gold really is gone, the fiat really is going to become hyper-inflated, the diviratives are going to crash like a house of cards, and as we learned yesterday - the US National Guard is now added to the group of federal alphabet soup agencies ready to shoot-on-sight Americans protesting the absoloute criminality of the staus quo - joining the already established hit squads at the DHS (adding sniper bullets to its hollow-point collection), FBI, DEA, ATF . . . even the SS Admin, is going to be called out fully armed to murder Americans where they stand in the street who object to the staus quo .

 

This is going to be so bloody. But as I've said, if you know someone is going to kill you, you have to kill them first.

 

Which a very sorry state of affairs. But at this point, it's obvious the government intends to kill us.

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Wed, 02/12/2014 - 18:34 | 4429961 Hapa
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"Which a very sorry state of affairs. But at this point, it's obvious the government intends to kill us."

This is clearly the intent, but I do not rule out the possibility of a mass awakening in the population, and this includes the government employees who are told to shoot the citizens.  The end is not a foregone conclusion.  Despite the polarization of the baves and have nots, we must not forget that there is still a reservoir of American Republic patriotism that people may suddenly rally to.  The guns will be laid down and the elite perpetrators will be hunted to extinction.

Thu, 02/13/2014 - 13:30 | 4432799 tyrone
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"..guns will be laid down and the elite perpetrators will be hunted to extinction...."

History begs to differ.    You been hiding in your mommy's closet too long, reading fantasy paperbacks. 

Thu, 02/13/2014 - 13:34 | 4432801 tyrone
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Wed, 02/12/2014 - 12:52 | 4428274 linrom
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Harvard Class of 1999? I wonder how many graduates went into fields other than finance? I bet that HEDGE FUND manager was at the top of the list.

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 21:41 | 4430563 DarthVaderMentor
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Let's face it, you don't go to Harvard to be an engineer or scientist. The only exceptions (and they are getting rarer and rarer( is in economics (if you want to call this a science) and esoterical theoretical mathematics. 

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 12:56 | 4428275 Smuckers
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Another suicide. 
This guy jogged into a parked car at 140km/h.

 

 

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 12:55 | 4428281 marcusfenix
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hmm...

no c.o.d being this time given eh?

I'm telling you hedgers, we have ourselves a serial killer targeting banksters on the loose, a kind of David Berkowitz, Ted Bundy, zodiac killer meets Assault on Wall Street trip.

that's what I'm betting on anyways, Dexter wants to do his thing...and justifies it by believing he or she is providing a  valuable public service.

 

 

 

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 14:22 | 4428729 ImReady
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Please don't raise my hopes like that. 

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 12:58 | 4428294 linrom
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Its pointless to cheer bankers' deaths. There is an army of 'wannabes waiting in the wings to fill the positions.'

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 13:04 | 4428315 yogibear
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So many out there have the greed and lust for power. Keep in mind when you know too much or have enough information to take down others you become expendable. 

The group of people doing this are probably being very well paid. When billions are at risk the price of a hit to be made to look like a suicide is very little.

 

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 21:41 | 4430637 DarthVaderMentor
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Yeah, but if it was really murder, I would expect a better quality job than a nail gun. I think this will generate an ISO 9000 study on the company(s) doing this work. You need quality CODs, not something run of the mill that ZH readers can see through. Something like falling off the roof and getting impaled, etc., a COD that can stand up to real scrutiny and any kind of "Quincy" type of "ME" wannabe trying to make a name for themselves in the lights of press controversy.

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 12:56 | 4428296 GoldRetriever
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CDO: Cause of Death Obscured

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 13:00 | 4428303 D-Fens
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The poor wasp bastard knew too much.

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 13:03 | 4428312 undercover brother
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Do you know what this means?

There is a job opening at JPM in their program trading department!!!

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 13:19 | 4428379 F.A. Hayek
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Forward!

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 21:45 | 4430665 PT
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Way too dangerous for me.  JPM should be banned.  I'm off to skydive without a parachute into crocodile infested waters while eating Fukushima fish (on location of course) and wearing a shirt made out of live scorpions (pincers on the inside) while playing russian roulette with a loaded semi-automatic while doing a two-finger handstand over a vat of concentrated plutonium-doped sulphuric acid ...

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 13:05 | 4428327 Peak Finance
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Nail gun death is bullshit.

After reading the story, I decided to go out to my garage to play with my nail gun a bit.

It is the large model that uses the gas and battery and is hence "untethered", that is the style mainly in use now. It fires a three-inch nail easily through three-inches of pressure treated lumber. I am assuming this is the kind he has, I rarely if ever see the old-school pnuematic guns anymore, and only builders by trade typically own them since they require a large tank and compressor. 

A nail gun is a very heavy, awkward tool, and there is a saftey feature on the point to prevent accidental discharge. This safty feature requires that the saftey "point" be pressed really hard onto the surface in order for the nail gun to fire.  The saftey "Point" is designed to be pressed into wood, not flesh, so, you need to press REALLY HARD with the nail gun onto flesh in order to dis-engage the saftey. I don't believe there is an easy way to disengage this saftey. 

So, taking all of these facts into consideration, I believe it is IMNPOSSIBLE to shoot yourself more than once with the nailgun. After the first nail goes in, you would be in too much pain to properly hold the nailgun again, in such a way that the saftey would be disengaged, and you would be able to fire into yourself. 

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 14:02 | 4428621 akarc
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"The saftey "Point" is designed to be pressed into wood, not flesh, so, you need to press REALLY HARD with the nail gun onto flesh in order to dis-engage the saftey."

Did you try this?

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 14:17 | 4428707 Peak Finance
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Actually, yes I did, I pressed the nail gun into my flesh (unloaded clearly) to see if I could press the "point" in far enough to dis-engage the saftey, it was hard. I could also see no way to easily or quickly disable the saftey. 

I am sure some other people on this site have the same guns, and can check them out and share their opionion on this. 

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 15:14 | 4428936 walküre
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True. I did some framing in my life. Saw a guy shoot a nail through the lumber into a foot of another guy. Boots don't matter much then. Pain is excruciating and the guy almost fainted.

In this case, the nail gun had to be put onto the victim by somone else. Like you said be pressed very hard into the chest until hitting rib cage and bone support.

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 13:11 | 4428331 astoriajoe
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Perusing the other funeral home recent obits:

age 19, intern at NYPPEX, also no description of cause other than "suddenly":

http://obits.dignitymemorial.com/dignity-memorial/obituary.aspx?n=J.-All...

probably nothing, I'm sure.

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 13:07 | 4428340 GoldRetriever
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"When People Talk, People Missing."

U.F'ed Dimon

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 13:12 | 4428353 Meat Hammer
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Snowden was smart enough to not run his mouth around the water cooler, on the phone, or anywhere else because he knows "they" are listening.  

Many on ZH have asked...if the politicians are running NSA spying then how come the NSA is spying on politicians? What have we learned?  We've learned that the NSA and every other department of every government worldwide are owned by shareholders of the world's central banks, the Kaiser Sozes of the globe who have the resources to do anything they want.  

The bankers being suicided are the ones who are talking...telling Mom on the drive home from work what's going on....and they are listening.  

The real bombshell will be dropped by the Snowden of the banking world who knows they're listening.  In my opinion, one morning we will wake up and log on to ZH to find the mother of all news stories about some kid who works in some department that nobody cares about having just blown the whistle to anybody who will listen.  The bankster owned MSM will try to cover it up, but the genie will have been let out of the lamp.  

They can keep suiciding the ones they know of but that'll just motivate the ones who are blending into the woodwork to blow the lid off of this thing even more.  

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 14:29 | 4428757 ImReady
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My bigger fear(and more likely) is I wake up to a permanent 404 error when I try to log on to ZH...Then what?

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 14:52 | 4428843 the not so migh...
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we do dial up BBS like the good old days

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 15:05 | 4428916 seek
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Uh... there aren't too many modems around these days, nor means for spreading the phone numbers.

I'd assume that if ZH is down, TOR is really down. Fire up the HF radios and hit 20/40 meters and see what's up would be the next place to go.

Personally, though, I'd take it as a sign we're on the short-count if ZH and related sites were down. 99% sure that would be a bug-out trigger for me to head to my alternate location far, far from the city.

 

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 21:26 | 4430597 DarthVaderMentor
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Try again and if you see a 300 type error the second time  look up(if you're still alive) and kiss your a## goodbye before the Obama NSA missile hits. You've been re-directed......to oblivion...... 

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 23:17 | 4430989 James
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ImReady, If that should happen try entering the websites IP address in address bar.

Everybody should maintain a list of your favorite sites IP address found by search engine question "what is zerohedge.com IP address" for example.

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 13:14 | 4428359 yogibear
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More strange deaths coming? The people doing the hits are professionals.

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 13:13 | 4428368 El Hosel
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Zero Losses... Not anymore

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 13:50 | 4428559 MarsInScorpio
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Yogi:

 

Just like the false flag pros who shot up the Silicon Valley transformers enough to make a splash, but not enough to crash the grid.

 

If you are professional enough to get as far as they did, then you are professinal enough to finish the attack successfully.

 

The fact that they didn't tells you they work for the gov.

 

NEVER forget: Obama truly believes he can "do anything I want."

 

And he also knows he has the security services in his corner, just waiting to go out and murder Americans.

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Wed, 02/12/2014 - 14:09 | 4428664 hangemhigh77
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FBI are the American Death Squads now.

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 14:15 | 4428708 LFMayor
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Well, he can do anything he wants.  So can you, I, or anyone else.  It's the fucking consequences of your actions that are the fly in the ointment.

The 3 Norns will not be denied, you know.

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 15:08 | 4428928 seek
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There's a small matter of scale. The security services don't scale well at all. We saw what one Dorner and two dudes in Boston did. Can you imagine if even a dozen people in one city got pushed too far/decided it was the big one because the security services made their move? This won't be a cakewalk.

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 18:36 | 4429979 TruthDetector
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Murders to prevent FOREX FRAUD Whistle Blowing http://www.silverdoctors.com/jim-willie-on-bankster-suicides-bankers-wer... "Three people can keep a secret as long as two of them are DEAD."

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 13:13 | 4428362 monad
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Who's next in line for his job? Ambitious bastard!!!

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 13:18 | 4428367 pupdog1
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Wed, 02/12/2014 - 13:19 | 4428382 CoonT
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"Sad events?"    lulz

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 13:33 | 4428444 Michigander
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Its always either...

Follow the money or tie up loose ends.

http://www.silverdoctors.com/jim-willie-on-bankster-suicides-bankers-wer...

 

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 13:37 | 4428489 yogibear
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"BANKERS WERE TAKEN OUT TO PREVENT FOREX FRAUD WHISTLE-BLOWING!"

Probably some of it. Billions is huge compared to a price of several professional hits.

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 13:34 | 4428452 Frank N. Beans
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what, no MBA?  Just a history degree? 

Must be who ya know.

 

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 14:48 | 4428823 zebrasquid
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He just got his MBA (Might've Been Assassinated).
And now he's major History.

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 13:35 | 4428460 Money 4 Nothing
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I say, ban banking! And nail guns with high capacity clips.

Do it for the children.

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 15:32 | 4429058 ThisIsBob
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We would also be substantially more secure if computers were designed to hold no more than ten rounds of software.

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 13:42 | 4428510 Australian Economist
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The trend is your friend

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 13:45 | 4428527 semperfi
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he was nailed (was he nailed?)

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 14:59 | 4428886 JimS
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I'm waiting to see a mass circle-suicide of bankers, using nail guns. Now THAT would be interesting to explain away.

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 13:48 | 4428547 vincent
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One, ONE recognizable name is all it will take. There will be massive cannibalism first, and that's a fair way down the road yet IMHO.

Big balls don't grow on trees at the investment houses.

How much of a financial parachute will it take before a Big Boy goes rogue??

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 13:50 | 4428556 Skip
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The problem is the average person has NO idea of what you are dealing with in the banking system.

I'm about a third of the way through a book that explains it, better than anything else I've read, simple, easy to follow, yet most people wouldn't believe it, why? Because, "things have always been this way", well it is a free download well worth the time:

The Sumerian Swindle

To repeat: All interest on the loan of money is a swindle. And the moneylenders and bankers are all criminals. Part of the trick in their black art, is that moneylenders have been around since Mesopotamian times so that these parasites have been taken for granted and accepted as a “normal” part of society. But bankers are not at all normal. They are all crooks.

However well-dressed and honest they pretend to be, the bankers are no different than a street hustler manipulating a pea among walnut shells. But to make the game more to their benefit, they manipulate trillions of peas between billions of walnut shells so that no one seems to be able to keep track of where all the money goes except themselves.

That all of the money disappears into the bankers’ pockets isn’t noticed in the confusion caused by some winners and some losers milling about and wondering what happened to the economy.

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 21:18 | 4430568 are we there yet
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Bankers, lawyers, and politicians have so much in common.

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 13:54 | 4428574 ncdirtdigger
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Is Vegas posting odds on who is next?

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 13:57 | 4428583 Eastwood
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The Borg has gotten so big that the laws of probability state that a TBTF bank employee is likely to pass away every 3 minutes. Now, with the media bots operating under keyword algorithmns these stories are thrust into our faces every minute. Nothing to see here. Move along.

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 13:56 | 4428589 NoTTD
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To paraphrase Blackadder, he accidently cut his head off while shaving.

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 13:59 | 4428591 Took Red Pill
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All these deaths are suspicious! This article is not up to date. One of the previous banker's death, the guy who supposedly jumped in London, is now under investigation. Article dated 2/9/14. I don't buy the nail gun suicide either!

http://wallstreetonparade.com/2014/02/suspicious-death-of-jpmorgan-vice-...

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 14:28 | 4428759 Thought Processor
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It is rumored that there is a large ongoing investigation that deals with Forex manipulation and that also includes the origination of High Frequency Trading (perhaps it's original purpose).   There are supposedly connections to the Bush Jr. regime in all of this.

Those that are deamed not trustworthy enough to keep their mouths shut are being suicided.   This then sends a message to all others being investigated to shut the hell up.

And yes, this is the world we live in.

Sad.

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 13:58 | 4428600 kragsquest
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The lemmings are starting to fall off the cliff, just wait until this becomes an epidemic....

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 14:00 | 4428601 Bastiat
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Blythe to Jamie:  We're cool, right?

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 14:06 | 4428641 Payne
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How about a probability analysis of Bankers deaths for the past 10 years.  Does the current observation fit the mean ? how many standard deviations does it exceed ?

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 14:07 | 4428648 hangemhigh77
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GOOD RIDDANCE!!!  This is great.  I'm so glad he's dead.  Now if all his working peers could all die it would be a great mircle.  I hope the next bankster that get's offed has a hit man stuff hundreds down his throat so he chokes to death on them.  I'm sure it would look like a suicide.

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 14:10 | 4428680 Calculus99
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The problem with these deaths is this - There's a good chance the dead bankers weren't sociopaths so now there's a few job openings for some more sociopaths to step up.

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 16:20 | 4429281 e_goldstein
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Unlikely that you become executive director of anything in finance without being a sociopath. Possible, but unlikely.

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 14:13 | 4428684 vyeung
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how come you don't see Jamie doing this.

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 14:12 | 4428690 BanksterSlayer
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Any relation to Marion Crane, the shower victim of Hitchcock's Psycho?

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 14:15 | 4428694 LFMayor
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And here I was thinking that nothing could top the hilarity of the Great Altanta Artic Vortex Offensive. 

Positively giddy.  Floating, like that uncle of Mary Poppins.

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 14:15 | 4428695 Oleander
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Puritan Lawn Memorial Park in Peabody Mass. is not just a cemetary. Its a beautiful space where you can be Memorialized in a spectacular fashion

Just Google the names of the family members listed in the Obituary.  They are all part of the club.

 

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 14:20 | 4428720 hangemhigh77
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well he's not part of the club anymore.  I hope he's burning in Hell.  That's not too harsh is it?

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 14:17 | 4428704 gwar5
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Whistleblowers getting offed.

I was not feeling especially bad about these guys until I realized that these guys are reportedly the Whistleblowers being wiped out. A few more of these and nobody is going to talk. Evah.

 

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 14:19 | 4428716 silverserfer
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wikileaks in 3...2....1.. 

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 14:20 | 4428724 Joebloinvestor
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Sounds like an Agatha Cristie novel, except they weren't "great bankers" were they?

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 14:23 | 4428736 Fix It Again Timmy
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Bankers should choose a safer profession such as de-arming IEDs and land mines...

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 14:28 | 4428750 yogibear
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Do-gooders, whistle blowers, true tellers get whacked now in the high stakes money arena.

Some Wall Street people are so powerful the Just-Us department won't even go there.

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 16:29 | 4429313 e_goldstein
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In case you're forgetting, not one of the recent suicided banksters have divulged anything. If they are being knocked off, it's because they are potential whistle blowers or could potentially turn to help a state prosecution. These swine are getting what that deserve; unfortunately, probably by the hands of more powerful swine.

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 14:26 | 4428751 yogibear
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Do-gooders, whistle blowers, true tellers get whacked now in the high stakes money arena.

Some Wall Street people are so powerful the Just-Us department won't even go there.

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 14:39 | 4428801 Nimby
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Unless someone can show me some actual statistics that suggest an increase in the deaths of banker over the population-at-large, this is just more pie-in-the-sky speculation.

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 14:46 | 4428821 Debt Slave
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Gosh, just like Stalin's Purges.

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 14:48 | 4428828 orangedrinkandchips
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Fucking QUITTER!

 

 

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 14:48 | 4428831 shovelhead
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No doubt an unfortunate accident with a shoehorn.

Most people have no idea how dangerous they can be.

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 15:00 | 4428854 Save_America1st
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Jim Willie says the Interpol investigation of all the big banks and executives is what's causing this to go critical.  The banker "suicides" are definitely due to this investigation.  It's also why Deutsche Bank pulled out of the gold "fixing" group and nobody wants to take their place, and why they're exiting commodities trading.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/17/deutsche-gold-fix-idUSL5N0KR19G20140117

JP Morgan is also leaving commodities trading (other than gold and silver of course), but still this shows that the heat is still on high even after all these banks have paid billions in fines for their criminal dealings.

http://citywire.co.uk/wealth-manager/jp-morgan-to-sell-commodities-trading-business/a732504

Jim also claims that the purchase of JP Morgan's building in NYC along with the world's largest vault underneath it was basically a buy-out of JP Morgan itself.  He says China now owns JP Morgan.  Chew on that one...

He also said that the douche bag banksters who own the foreign controlled Federal Reserve Central Bank are also selling it to China secretly, and China will slowly beging to take over the controls of the Fed via the IBF.

There's some serious shit going on other than just these bankster "suicides"...but you can tell it's happening because they were lower level guys who knew what was going on and they were going to cave in and whistleblow to the ongoing world-wide Interpol investigations. 

I'm sure some of them were actual suicides because they probably knew they were going to be killed off anyway in some "creative" way like 'ol Mr. 8 Shots w/ a Nail-Gun Guy.

 

JIM WILLIE "The Golden Jackass":

Jim Willie on Bankster Suicides: Bankers Were Taken Out to Prevent FOREX Fraud Whistle-blowing!

 

WE ARE NOT SEEING BAD BANKERS REMOVED

WE ARE SEEING BANKERS REMOVED WHO ARE ON THE VERGE OF REVEALING BIG DATA DETAILS

 

http://www.silverdoctors.com/jim-willie-on-bankster-suicides-bankers-were-taken-out-to-prevent-forex-fraud-whistle-blowing/

 

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 17:15 | 4429626 Lost Word
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Or maybe the JPMorgan building is going to be done like 9-11.

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 14:56 | 4428869 the not so migh...
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man, its not a good time to be a banker at any momeent you co____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 15:01 | 4428896 One of We
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I hope he died with a clear conscience.

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 15:07 | 4428914 ConcernedForThe...
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It would appear this young man had very limited life experiences outside of academia and finance. Sad.

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 15:18 | 4428952 Inthemix96
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Heres a thought peeps, and stay with me on this.

Any of you criminals working for the banking cartels that have seen what has happened to 5 of your comrades over the past two weeks, in positions similar to yours, with information that could be of interest to other parties should take heed.  You are now considered 'Fair Game', as in you know too much, or have seen something that could incriminate someone you may not personally know.  Take this on board, no-one, and I mean no-one could take 7-8 shots from a nail gun by their own hands, think on it.

Now if this may apply to you, and you think something similar might happen to you, take action, pre-emption if you will.  You really want to go out with 7-8 nail gun shots?  You then, are a fucking braver man/woman, than any fucker I know.

Show some backbone, show some moral fibre, show some manliness for just this once.  Arm up and serve justice gentlemen.  For dogs sake, as these previous five have shown, you dont just have nothing to loose, you are dead men walking.

I implore you, just this once, do the 'Right' thing.

;-)

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 15:27 | 4429008 walküre
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Who would such a person trust and turn to? Not all of them can just hop on a plane and hide in Hongkong then in Moscow. The banks control the authorities. Passport comes up flagged at the airport, some lights go off at NSA and bang. The guy is being asked to quietly walk with the TSA agents into the abyss of a US airport, never to be seen or heard off again. The flight manifest and records will show that he made the flight and he arrived at the destination. Then disappeared.

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 21:25 | 4430599 MeelionDollerBogus
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They could hold a press conference & live-stream it. Make sure it sounds like it's about something else then just BLURT IT OUT, 5 or more bankster minions at once, that they have documents & are witnesses to racketeering.
From there NO murder of them will be classified as a suicide & ALL the information will get moved even if by torrent & livestream, much less those fools in mainstream media who didn't figure out fast enough a "change of script" and hit the buttons that cut the feed.
Make it very public. Give no hint ahead of time of what's coming. Make it sound like an announcement for some great new ETF fund that will revolutionize investing for the general public. ANYTHING but what it really is.

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 21:48 | 4430672 walküre
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Those in the know are no longer in control of their own lives. They're being tracked and watched, spied on. Employees at these firms even sign some agreements to that extent. The nature of their job is such that they cannot hide anywhere, their full transparency is required. Conspiracy to whistle blowing is what you're suggesting and it would be pretty damn hard in that industry. Again, how do you know who to trust? What if the guy who you think has your back because he initiated the take down is actually an FBI informant? This is indeed tougher than it looks and the new surveillance and communication technology makes it so much more difficult. Snowden chose the only possible path when he made himself known and made known what he knew.

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 22:58 | 4430939 MeelionDollerBogus
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then let them learn to be street smart.
Prisoners are under surveillance, lock & key at all times yet somehow manage to smuggle drugs, kill each other without getting caught & even get coded messages to the outside.
It can be done.
I outlined a plan in which no trust is required. Fully public, right away, dissemination on the spot, no chance to be killed in secret or to use killing to stop the document dump & live discussion.

These people would also be turning on non-government (officially) entities, removing all chance of charges for espionage against the government.

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 18:07 | 4429863 falak pema
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Inthemix now serving the "black spot" to the scalawags from Long John Silver's gang.

Wow, we are heading to Treasure Island. 

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 15:18 | 4428961 magne13
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I guess the only consolation for these lost souls is for anyone here with knowledge of who is next, that would really be something, so any of you Morganites can you please warn the next player that his time is alomst up, or at least drop some names here so we can all speculate together.

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 15:20 | 4428970 AMGdesignnl
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Oh sjees ROFLOL ... Americans <);o) #lookinthemirror

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 15:25 | 4429000 F.A. Hayek
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He probably got suicided by domestic drone.

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 15:26 | 4429017 mogul rider
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#WINNING!

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 15:29 | 4429026 eucalyptus
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another job opening? should help with the UE numbers

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 15:28 | 4429034 mogul rider
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99 bankers heads on the wall!

99 bankers heads on the wall!!

1 shot dead, shot in the head

98 bankers heads on the wall!

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 15:33 | 4429056 GoldVsFRNdotCOM
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Meet with a moving bus, Jamie dimon must!

The force will be appeased only then.

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 15:33 | 4429057 22winmag
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Was he found sitting on a park bench with dried blood dripping perpendicular to the forces of gravity, Vince Foster style?

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 16:46 | 4429433 Boxed Merlot
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Vince Foster style...

 

 

Vince Foster was an adult that chose his profession and his associates.  The young boys on the train tracks at Mena AK are another story. Any apparatus with the ability to calculate with cold hearted abandon to allow "collateral damage" to include innocents, especially the young, in their insatiable desire for moar should be called to account for their reprehensibility.

 

I remember a story from Sunday school where it actually happened, kinda still gives me hope.  2Kings 9:30.

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 17:19 | 4429646 Lost Word
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Is that like saying Vince Foster knowingly joined the Clinton Mafia?

Blood oath and no escape except death?

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 21:24 | 4430590 MeelionDollerBogus
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Magnetic trees - STRIKE AGAIN!!

Oh, da hoomanity.

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 15:48 | 4429140 chaartist
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I suspect that those strong bitcoin hands realised that there is better use of their bitcoins than to hold them as a piece of joke.

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 15:53 | 4429153 pashley1411
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When there are trillions involved, and the most trivial fine is in the billions, I would be going very very long hitmen.

A simple cost-benefit analysis would lean towards burying your problems, if you know what I mean. 

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 16:06 | 4429216 css1971
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And not just any old hitmen. Only the best.

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 15:53 | 4429162 The Fonz...befo...
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Remember all those perfect quarters of no trading day losses?

How many quarters was it?

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 15:55 | 4429165 Levadiakos
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CNBC tell us that all we care about is the safety of Jamie's bonus

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 16:23 | 4429298 buzlightening
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Evil has but one power. To destroy itself.

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 16:30 | 4429343 CheapBastard
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Gee. They say he had a very bright future, too.

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 16:34 | 4429358 rosiescenario
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That nail gun "suicide" really bothers me...I can see performing a DIY frontal lobotomy that way, but to use a nail gun for suicide....you'd need your head examined....

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 21:23 | 4430581 MeelionDollerBogus
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Someone better 'hammer away' at this problem until we can 'nail down the truth'!
We wouldn't want to see anyone improperly 'framed' after all!

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 16:36 | 4429369 greenbear
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As an aside, I noticed that Ryan Crane's obituary reads:

"In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to The Delbarton School (www.delbarton.org/donate), in memory of Ryan Crane."

The Delbarton School is a college preparatory boarding school for boys grades seven through twelve administered by the Roman Catholic Benedictine monks of St. Mary's Abbey.

Not suprisingly The Delbarton School is also apparently a hotbed for pedophiles.   Link and Link.

High level politicians, banksters, the Catholic Church, and child sex rings are always inextricably linked. 

 

 

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 16:50 | 4429436 Oleander
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Tuition- $32,220 for 2013-2014 school year.  Plus books, transportation, and extraneous expenses.  Please donate- Its for the children!

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 20:36 | 4430426 greenbear
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Good point! 

I'm sure any donations will go towards the legal defense fund of the sodomite pedophiles of St. Mary’s Abbey and Delbarton. 

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 16:37 | 4429370 greenbear
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Dup

 

 

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 16:53 | 4429478 Van Halen
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Anyone checking the ashtray for Morley butts?

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 21:13 | 4429486 are we there yet
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Ryan Henry Crane's obituary listed close relatives all in Mas, Nj, and Denver Colorado.... ' brother, Lex of Denver, Colo.; sister, Allison; brother-in-law, John Archard of Arvada, Colo.(i.e. central Denver)' .... The Nail gun banker death a few days earlier was in Centennial Colorado (i.e. inside the Denver 470 loop). Simple google search.

So the nail gun banker death was only 24 miles from both the brother and brother in law of 37 year old banker Ryan Henry Crane's now deceased. So many strange corrilations with the bankers deaths a few days apart.

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 16:55 | 4429495 RaceToTheBottom
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I think drugs were involved

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 17:01 | 4429544 HughJanus
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What is this piece of non sensational rubbish not even a puff peace?

Former employee.....mmm

Dead......probably pissed off at being let go to further his......blah blah

Deader...wealth beyond comprehension....and it's gone.

Is it me getting even more cynical and simply glazing over many of these articles in repetition and boredom and imagined that the content and message has recently deteriorated?

Perhaps it is merely a reaction to being less than sober and a couple of asian hookers

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 22:39 | 4430571 MeelionDollerBogus
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mmmm sashimi

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 17:23 | 4429669 Shizzmoney
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Something is brewing in the next 6-12 months.  Aligning with my "financial crises occur at the end of POTUS' terms since Bretton Woods" theory quite nicely.

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 17:29 | 4429686 Jack Burton
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perhaps I shouldn't say this, but as a not inferquent vistor to the Canary Warf area, to visit Greenwhich on the south bank of the Thames, I couldn't help but wonder what a banker jumping to his death from one of those towers of finance capital would look like. Not a pretty sight, but maybe a well deserved end. We have watched bankers rape, loot, steal and demand bailouts. While claiming to be conservative free market capitalistsm they are anything but. They rely on central bank and government guarnatees for their bets and their financial engineering. The "I win, I profit" "I lose, You bail me out" type of capitalism is not capitalism. It is crony rigged capitalism. While trillions are stolen by the top, most people lose sleep over some slob taking food stamp benefits.

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 17:44 | 4429769 TNTARG
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No democracy is possible when a bunch of people can get in control of governments, set up presidents, use the most powerful military force on Earth to accomplish their purposes, buy the entire production chain, etc.

And the US did it all: It resigned the gvt to them, giving control of the state finances to the FED, gave access to control everything during Clinton's government via the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. So now the Goldmans are even in control of uranium production, among almost any other resource and/or industry around the World.

Could you be so kind of reversing it? Otherwise, they'll continue to become the m(on)sters of the Planet, and all of us, slaves with no rights. Among other things, I must remember you that recently Shell Corporation and HSBC bought milions of dollars on the black market in Argentina at above 25% over the exchange rate, in order to produce a "financial cup" - artificially raising the value of the dollar - and the devaluation of the argentinean currency. They have their long, very long, dark and evil finghers in every little or major thing that happens in the World. Including Fukushima.

(P.S.: Stay out of the snow!)

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 17:31 | 4429692 insanelysane
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Did they ever release the cause of death of the 30-something that figured out how to hack pacemakers?

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 18:27 | 4429934 delivered
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I think you're referring to Barnaby Jack which I tried to watch closely and follow-up on as 30 year olds in generally good health just don't up and die. After some preliminary information, the story justed ended with no real explanation, follow-up, cause of death offered, etc., etc., etc. The story went cold just as fast as these banker's are going cold. I found almost nothing on the topic that would support a cause of death. Seems like nobody, including his family, had anything to say. Maybe others can offer some insight but the way these parties are dying and being so young and in apparent good health is really troubling. For all the talk of business and governments needing to be more transparent, just the opposite appears to be happening over the past decade. The greatest Snow Job ever (no pun intended with Edward Snowden). 

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 18:41 | 4429985 SgtShaftoe
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Big Brother broke his heart.

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 17:40 | 4429745 yogibear
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"The Nail gun banker death"

Not much investigations, immediate ruling of suicide, cremate the body, destroy any evidence  and carry on. 


Wed, 02/12/2014 - 18:23 | 4429929 nasa
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Or dumped overboard "in accordance with Islamic burial traditions."

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 21:16 | 4430565 MeelionDollerBogus
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That was especially rich. We all know how those Arabs in the desert are constantly messing about in the ocean right beside all those dunes & sandstorms.

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 17:52 | 4429803 Dr.Engineer
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death by out of control stapler next

maybe death by flushing

if I were one of them, I'd have multiple copies of info that would be sent to the good guys (assuming some are left) when my heart stopped for longer than 2 minutes

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 18:09 | 4429864 BanksterSlayer
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WOW ... Guerrilla Economist "V" ... that contact of Steve Quayle's -- has posted this just now. Those two JPM guys would have worked with the same file access:

 

One other thing he was the head at the program trading desk. Meaning he over saw all of the trades and was familiar with all of the software( trade platforms) that these trades were done in. This job works closely with guess what? That’s right the London desk and who died last week in London? That’s right Gabriel Magee the one who jumped off the 33rd floor. What was his post? Head of IT and trade platforms meaning he had access to info that Ryan Henry Cross (sic) (he means Crane) would have. 

 

They knew each other and uncovered something they were about the same age and these hits happen when two big announcements by JPM. One they are out of commodities and two the wholesale selling of their HQ downtown. 

 

"V" The Guerrilla Economist

 

http://www.stevequayle.com/index.php?s=33&d=801

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 18:12 | 4429877 MrBoompi
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Dead men tell no tales.....

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 18:11 | 4429878 Lugnut
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Without having any deatail whatsoever on how he died, this is the most worthless ZH story ever.

Change the name to Zero Context

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 18:16 | 4429905 Johnny Cocknballs
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So far none of these guys were the type that knows where the bodies are buried.  And one of the four, nail gun guy, was not a banker, and in real estate/insurance, not the financial industry.

Wake me when it's someone who's been to lunch with Jamie or Lloyd.  Right now, stories about how many US soldiers and vets are killing themselves deserve to be told more than trying to package a few deaths as some sort of trend for comment-bait.    Yeah, junk away...

-----------------

Good Taibbi:

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-vampire-squid-strikes-agai...

You angry yet?

 

 

 

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 19:31 | 4430194 MeelionDollerBogus
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http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-vampire-squid-strikes-again-the-mega-banks-most-devious-scam-yet-20140212?page=5

"One thing that is clear in the public record is that nobody was talking, at least publicly, about banks someday owning oil tankers or controlling the supply of industrial metals."
THAT'S WHY I'M RICHER THAN YOU!
BWAHAHAHHAAHHAAHA

"when a little-known Clinton administration Justice Department official named Eric Holder recommended Rich be pardoned. A report by the House Committee on Government Reform later concluded that Holder had not provided a credible explanation for supporting Rich's pardon and that he must have had "other motivations" '
Poppycock & balderdash! Clearly this man will find the real criminals and give 'em... what-for! Or something...

Wed, 02/12/2014 - 18:38 | 4429980 TruthDetector
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Murders to prevent FOREX FRAUD Whistle Blowing

http://www.silverdoctors.com/jim-willie-on-bankster-suicides-bankers-wer...

"Three people can keep a secret as long as two of them are DEAD."

Do NOT follow this link or you will be banned from the site!