Reid Says JPMorgan Should ‘Take Their Business to Las Vegas’
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Alex Wong/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., suggested Tuesday that JPMorgan “take their business to Las Vegas,” after the bank’s $2 billion loss stemming from bad trades.
“Because it’s just a gamble,” the Nevada senator said Tuesday. “It’s one of the things that’s clear that they were betting like they would do at a crap table in Las Vegas. And they bet the wrong way….If they make a bad bet Uncle Sam is there. We’ve got to stop that.”
Reid said he has great respect for JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, but “this is a bad deal.”
The majority leader is expected to force a vote, perhaps as early as this week, on two nominees to the Federal Reserve Board, a move influenced in part by the trading loss at JPMorgan.
“It’s important that we have a fully functioning Fed,” Reid said, “The Fed, who’s responsible for drawing up those rules, should have been done a long time ago.”
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Tuesday that it is his impression that there is “bipartisan support” for both nominees in the Senate despite Sen. David Vitter’s, R-La., objection to a full vote in the Senate.
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