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Suicides on Wall Street Create Workplace Jitters, But No Clear Answers

We're all familiar with images from the Great Depression of bankers hurling themselves out of high-story windows when faced with overnight financial ruin. More recently, the rate of suicides spiked briefly during the Great Recession. So reports CNN Money.
Bernie Madoff's son took his own life a few years ago as investigators surrounding the role he played in his father's business perhaps got a little too close for his own comfort, after the collapse of the real estate market exposed the now-famous Madoff Ponzi scheme.
Now a rash of recent suicides within the ranks of J.P. Morgan Chase is causing investment bankers to wonder if these are freakish coincidences – or an ominous sign of the high-pressure world they inhabit for a shot at the proverbial brass ring. It seems the jury's still out.
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