Posted on 03/18/2014 8:18:11 AM PDT by Nachum
When I first heard that another banker had hoffed himself, the first thought that hit me was, “I wonder if he was with JPM.”
Wow someone off themselves with a nail gun. I suppose that needs to be banned or have some nail gun control.
Appears they may know something is coming down the pike. 1 suicide I will accept but not that many. I am sure they won’t be the last. I wonder what they have known.
I am aware of this story but I haven’t been following it closely. Has anyone tried to find links between all of these people?
I was in that world for a long time. I knew one guy who went missing shortly before an IPO that would have made him millions, but I can’t recall any suicides.
Are these Vince Foster “suicides?”
I’m with you... I have no clue what’s causing this...
I’m hearing there’s a huge shortage of nails these days.
Are these guys obtaining strong “suggestions” to kill themselves, do they know things we don’t such as impending Greatest Depression, or are these actually murderers shrouded as suicides?
Way too many now to be coincidences.
Roughly 39,000 people off themselves each year in the usa. 5.5 million people are employed in the banking and insurance industries. Figure half are wankers bankers. that's 2.75 million bankers out of 320 million people in the usa or .8594%. If we apply this to the number of suicides we would expect 335 bankers to suicide every year.
“Roughly 39,000 people off themselves each year in the usa. 5.5 million people are employed in the banking and insurance industries. Figure half are wankers bankers. that’s 2.75 million bankers out of 320 million people in the usa or .8594%. If we apply this to the number of suicides we would expect 335 bankers to suicide every year. “
Thanks for taking the time to look this stuff up. I suspected this was the case, but didn’t care enough about it to do the legwork. I’m going to repeat your analysis on zerohedge as I have an login there.
I was surprised at that number of 39,000. I was thinking it was on the order of 20,000 to 25,000 (numbers I have a vague recollection of seeing).
What’s the source of the data. I’d like to go look at them.
Thanks.
I just looked on google. Don’t remember which of the many links had the final data.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czBIBEMuRQU
Frequently stated by those proudly ignorant who lack even a basic understanding of statistics.
Also, people employed in the financial sector are 1.51 times more likely to commit suicide than an “average” person. CDC says about 170 per year I think? Couldn’t find the stats in a brief search.
http://www.businessinsider.com/most-suicidal-occupations-2011-10?op=1
Interesting. If its 170/yr or 335/yr looking at a dozen or so over the course of a couple of months and claiming a pattern just doesn’t hold water. It’s like listening to the anectodal “evidence” that anti-gunners invariably present at gun bill hearings. It isn’t a basis for anything.
The correlation is not spurious. You’d have to compare the recent spate of suicides to the general historical rate of suicide among young, healthy, successful investment bankers to get a better picture.
Joseph Farrell has been keeping tabs on this, and on possible links and causes:
http://gizadeathstar.com/2014/03/yet-another-banker-jumps-death-patterns-emerging/
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