Here you have the Fed, which is supposed to regulate Wall Street. Then you have the CEO of the largest Wall Street company on the board which [it] is supposed to be regulating. This is the fox guarding the henhouse. Dimon served on the New York Fed's board of directors amid the financial crisis. Appointed to the post initially in 2007, he is scheduled to end his second three-year term in December. He is currently the only executive of a major national bank to serve on a regional board. If it seems shady though, don't blame the Fed.
This article cites its sources but its page references ranges are too broad. (January 2017) A banyan, also spelled banian, is a fig that begins its life as an epiphyte, i. e. a plant that grows on another plant, when its seed germinates in a crack or crevice of a host tree or human edifice. Banyan often specifically denominates Ficus benghalensis, which is the national tree of the Republic of India, though the name has also been generalized to denominate all figs that share a common life cycle and used systematically in taxonomy to denominate the subgenus Urostigma.
Banter refers to a form of jesting or to the act of exchanging joking repartee. Although the word once meant âridicule,â and though it has a regional sense a challenge or dare (as in, he performed a banter [or banner], jumping from the roof onto the snowbank), in modern use it usually refers to a light-hearted form of wit.