One day after J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. demanded $5 billion in collateral from a teetering Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. last month, the big bank made the same demand from Merrill Lynch & Co. Lehman paid the $5 billion to J.P. Morgan and...

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Earlier in the week, I picked apart a New York Times story  comparing investor Warren Buffett to financier J. Pierpont Morgan Sr. Maybe the Times could have made a better case that Jamie Dimon, the latter-day chief of the House of Morgan's...