Monday, June 13, 2016

Forty Banker Suicides

The headlines say "banker" but it never is, it is people working in banks who know too much.  It is never a top banker.
Three bankers in New York, London and Siena, Italy, died within 17 months of each other in 2013-14 in what authorities deemed a series of unrelated suicides. But in each case, the victim had a connection to a burgeoning global banking scandal, leaving more questions than answers as to the circumstances surrounding their deaths.The March 6, 2013, death of David Rossi — a 51-year-old communications director at Monte dei Paschi di Siena, the world’s oldest bank — came as the institution teetered on the brink of collapse.
Rossi was found dead in an alleyway beneath his third-floor office window in the 14th-century palazzo that served as the bank’s headquarters.
In the early Sixties, there was a series of world leaders who all sought independence, freedom, prosperity, justice… Kennedy, Hammerskold, Lumumba, Diem, politicians all, who were murdered. And then domestic as well… MLKing…

It seems if you work under the hegemony and try to do what is right, well…  defenestration for you!

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...


Apparently being a banker is a very high stress job, even though they get paid a lot.

Personally I would rather be an entrepreneur that actually produces tangible things genuinely useful and valuable to society.

Anonymous said...

Thumbs up to that...

Anonymous said...

Just heard this the other day on Youtube and it made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up: "The Speech That Got Kennedy Killed"
https://youtu.be/y8HTr-F-FVM