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.

None of the other permanent Security Council members were anywhere near this, and the only other countries on the planet with comparable figures were Nigeria and Israel.

The broadest opposition to war crimes, unsurprisingly came from respondents to the poll in countries ravaged by war, with people in Yemen uniformly against torture and against attacking hospitals. The Afghan public, similarly was overwhelmingly opposed to both.

As Italian daily Corriere della Sera reported on Friday, Italy is in last-gasp negotiations with the European Commission over the terms of a state bailout of MPS. The taxpayer funded-rescue has already been requested and could be launched as early as next week, “if needed” (ha!).

It would just mean having to apply the rules “with greater flexibility,” sources told Reuters. It’s a beautiful way of saying “break the iron-clad rules we ourselves created to prevent such a possibility.”