Merkley Challenges Dimon On JPMorgan Bailout

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JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon likes to boast that JPMorgan didn’t need to be bailed out in 2008 and only accepted federal funds at the government’s insistence. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) challenged this mythos: Without the bailout, “JP Morgan would have gone down and you would have been out of a job,” he said. 

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