Yesterday JP Morgan became the second huge bank this week to announce a return to multibillion dollar profits, largely due to record trading profits that are probably “one-offs” related to AIG, but nevertheless use this triumphant return to the black as an opportunity to boast about its plans to pay back its TARP money and get back into the eight figure bonus business. And JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon wasn’t exactly at a loss for mirth over that last part in the morning’s conference call:
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