Wall Street loves socialism for bankers, but not for ordinary people | Robert Reich

JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon decries socialism. Unless of course it's the banks that need a government bailout

In his annual letter to shareholders, distributed last week, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon took aim at socialism, warning it would be "a disaster for our country," because it produces "stagnation, corruption and often worse."

Dimon should know. He was at the helm when JPMorgan received a $25bn socialist-like bailout in 2008, after it and other Wall Street banks almost tanked because of their reckless loans.

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Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley and the author of Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few and The Common Good. He is also a columnist for Guardian US