by Pam Martens and Russ Martens, Wall St On Parade:
We can’t remember a time when the Chairman and CEO of the largest, most complex and scandal-ridden bank in the United States, Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase, was too busy to squeeze in an appearance at the company’s heavily-scrutinized quarterly earnings call with analysts. That happened last Friday.
When something happens for the first time at a bank that has racked up five felony counts, has been doled out non-prosecution and deferred-prosecution agreements by the U.S. Department of Justice in a steady drumbeat since 2014, and spent most of last year in the headlines for a decade of sluicing tens of thousands of dollars per month in hard cash to the international sex trafficker of children, Jeffrey Epstein, it pays to sit up and pay attention.
As western nations are de-industrializing, while drowning in debt, they are demanding more pounds of flesh from their former colonies. But those days are over. And increasing defense spending, as a means of generating wealth, is not a sound strategy, but one requiring permanent war! China is not in decline, as it invests in physical wealth production, not pumping out funny-money to roll over bad debt. The west must reject neoliberal economic ideology, and learn from LaRouche. Where are the elder statesmen in the West when they are needed? Help us find them and mobilize them:
Kerry and 
