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Third prominent banker found dead in six days

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48 pointsarjn10 comments

I know this is sad for the families and I know that in another thread people commented on statistical likelihood a for suicide and how this is within the bounds of "expected."

But there is another point. "Prominent". One of the three carried the title of Vice President. I don't know if banking now is like when I worked for a bank, but "Vice President" is a nothing title. I was a Vice President and trust me I was nothing. (Bank: Security Pacific, acquired in 1991 at which point I was one of thousands who were put in the ejector seat.)

I think these articles tell us more about the authors' predilections for finding conspiracies than anything else.

and now the count goes to 4 [ http://rt.com/business/russell-investments-chief-economist-d... ]

Who was the third, then?

Also: "missing since Jan. 29", "what’s strange is that Dueker is the third prominent banker found dead since Sunday.".

He was probably dead several days before Sunday. I don't think there is much significance in when the bodies were found, the important part is when they died.

Now, it is possible that all of the estimated date of deaths are close together, but close date of discoveries really doesn't make this story interesting to me, and that is how the story is being sold.

I also saw this somewhere else, and one of the people worked for 'Tata Motors' - seems a stretch to call this finance.

I don't know what the population of VPs and CEOs worldwide is. Given that it is overrepresented by men between 25 and 40, which coincides with the peak risk group for suicide, I would say that what we are looking at here is cherry picking to prove a point. The fact is, because of the relatively safe lifestyles of most of the group, suicide would actually be a leading risk factor for premature death (apart from motor vehicle accidents).

Wow, the ad I got when viewing the page had pretty terrible timing. https://oasc17.247realmedia.com/RealMedia/ads/Creatives/Hous...

Don't even know where to start when it comes to those comments...

"Bill and Hillary killed 23 people in Arkansas. I'm sure there's a Bengazzi link to this, or maybe Whitewater. You never know, you know? I've always thought Bill Clinton had something to do with that Jon Benet deal"

Why would you know?

One would hope to understand a little. After all, all votes are equal in a democracy.

Attention to detail is lacking here. The 'banker' at JP Morgan wasn't a banker.

Given the size of the banking/ finance industry, is the frequency of these 'unusual' deaths in line with what they might normally be expected to be? IIRC, the Foxconn deaths 'scandal' was misleading because the number of suicide-related deaths wasn't unexpected for a population the size of the workforce. A similar explanation for the France Telecom 'scandal' a few years ago, too.

It has the feel to it of a conspiracy that is just gathering pace for sensational reporting.

Seems legit: http://www.businessinsider.com/most-suicidal-occupations-201...

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