The following video is part of our "Motley Fool Conversations" series, in which financial and economics-sector head Ilan Moscovitz and consumer-goods editor and analyst Austin Smith discuss topics around the investing world.
JPMorgan Chase is a behemoth. Its $2 billion trading loss is only a tiny fraction of the its total capital. So why does it matter so much? For at least three reasons:
- Investors just realized -- once again -- that no trader, executive, or bank is immortal.
- JPMorgan's risk control seems to have fallen prey to hubris.
- It reveals that much tougher rules are going to be necessary to prevent the next financial crisis.
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