CFTC Commissioner Bart Chilton On the Irony of JP Morgan's Trading Loss

"Financial institutions such as JPMorgan love to buy derivatives because they are opaque, create fictional income that leads to real bonuses and when (not if) they suffer losses so large that they would cause the bank to fail, they will be bailed out."

William K Black
When the next financial crisis occurs remember the things that Bart Chilton says in his op-ed piece below. Things like