Those who claim that the Kremlin tried to promote Trump because the Republican candidate appears to be more favorably disposed toward Russia are wrong. They misunderstand the complex nature of Russian-American relations and underestimate Russian strategy. Moscow understands that its bilateral relationship with Washington rests on a set of longstanding geopolitical variables and does not depend on ephemeral personal relations between individual leaders. The Russian plan is to sow mistrust between Western civil society and Western political institutions, which, given the challenges currently being faced by European and American democracy, is not a far-fetched goal.

But the report admits that at the beginning of this year, when bank stocks were getting clobbered, insiders were heavy buyers, and with impeccable timing: Jamie Dimon bought $26 million of JP Morgan shares on February 11. Since then, JPM has jumped 60%. So now, for them, seeing what they see from their perch, it’s once again time to unload, and do so at record pace – perhaps with impeccable timing once again.