Pity the poor banker and his loss of debit card fees.
An interesting interview with the object of yesterday's protests, conducted before his speech at the downtown Sheraton.

Dimon said he can understand [the Occupy movement's] frustration with Wall Street and Washington, D.C.

"They're right. In general, these big institutions of America let them down," he said. "That's not the same thing as to say that every bank was bad, every politician was bad. That's where I would disagree."

In Dimon's defensive fusillade: Big corporations provide a lot of jobs, Chase's small business lending is up 71 percent, the bank has a lot of money to give away to charity (and has kept giving during the recession), plus it's done a bunch of those loan modifications that people want it to do more of ("We've done a million modifications, OK?" Dimon told the Seattle Times).

Oh, also, he wants some sympathy because limiting big banks' debit card fees "was a miscarriage of justice." And to the young people: "Keep the faith. I wish we hadn't put them in this position. Remember those fundamentals always when you wake up: You are in the best country and it will come back."