JP Morgan Executive Becomes 5th Banker To Die In Last 2 Weeks

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9. At least a couple.

But that's enough of a pattern for people to fill in the gaps and say not only were all 5 suicides or homicides for a single cause, but other deaths were as well.

Then again, we find faces in the landscape and in rocks and in how the ocean happened to deposit the seaweed during the last high tide. We're good at finding patterns. Thing is, lots of patterns are very short and completely random.

If the pattern says, "Those branches and leaves look like a large carnivore," it's foolishness not to take action. If you're wrong and take action, you look a bit stupid. If you're right and take action you look wise. If you're wrong and do nothing, you're okay, this time; but if you're right and do nothing you're dead. Taking action is two of the three ways you survive, and the other way is luck. But missing the pattern just once gets you dead. If the same situation happens enough times, only those who see patterns get to have kids.

Of course, with fewer large carnivores around all that insistence on spotting patterns that aren't really there leads to massive entertainment for some and outrageous tin-foil bills for others.

Stay tuned to see if this is a real pattern or not. Inquiring minds want to know.