JPMorgan’s Hawaii No-O

Jamie Dimon puts a limit on staff travel to one of JPMorgan’s more exotic branches.

Even the best are sometimes forgetful, but JPMorgan chief executive Jamie Dimon can perhaps be forgiven for losing track of how far his empire stretches. It is equally reassuring to know that his famed eagle eye for costs hasn’t lost any of its sharpness.

After all, back when he was Sandy Weill’s protégé at Commercial Credit in the mid 1980s, he was the one cracking the whip on craziness like the paper storage unit that didn’t have any paper and the $20,000 bill for watering executive floor plants that didn’t exist.

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