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I was a normal human being, but I did like that. I read a lot. I also liked math and science.

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Jamie Dimon
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: March 13
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New York City
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James Dimon
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Most CEOs are patriotic and most CEOs can see the problems in front of them, and they want to do something about it. We don't always agree about the ways and means, but the objective? We're totally together.
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Manipulating currencies is when you're going into the marketplace and buying something in large amounts to depress the value of the currency.
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I haven't studied it deeply, but the American banks started the crisis with far more capital and what I would call good liquidity. The riskiest funding is unsecured wholesale funding. It's the most fickle. Not repo, which the government focused on, too. Unsecured. JPMorgan Chase had almost none of that - virtually zero.
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The yen is trading where it's trading because people are guessing about people's future interest rates, dollar and yen and about the future growth potential of the economies. And, if this policy works, then the yen will probably strengthen.
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It's good for America when the rest of the world grows, because you can sell more to the rest of the world.
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Companies that build scale for the benefit of their customers and shareholders more often succeed over time.
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Our investment bank looks like it does because its customers like our expansive network and want to do equity, debt, M&A, custody, move money, deposit money, et cetera.
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If you went to all those little towns in America, JPMorgan was there in good times and bad times, and, in fact, helped a lot of people through the tough times. And we know that's when they need us the most.
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Economies of scale are a good thing. If we didn't have them, we'd still be living in tents and eating buffalo.
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I completely agree with the concept that American citizens shouldn't expect that a failure of a bank would cost them money, or that it would hurt the economy.
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I am still a Democrat. The main reason is because I don't like the Republican stance on some social values. Not that I disagree with all of them. I just don't think they have a right to impose it upon other people. I've been public about that.
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I believe it's a good thing that people say, Can we find a way to live together in peace? And they did, for the most part.
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We invested in the downturn and we never stopped serving our clients.
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Companies are returning a lot of money to shareholders through dividends and buybacks. And a lot of people say that's not a good use of capital. I think that's normal reallocation of capital.
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I am not embarrassed to be a banker. I am not embarrassed to be in business.
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I do want the tax system to be efficient and be conducive to growth, which it is not.
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Their [American banks] big issue will be if they want to deal with the biggest companies, which are doing a lot of business overseas. How they do that is a big question. It's almost impossible to build a global investment bank from scratch. If they want to do that, they probably will have to do an acquisition.
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The question is how do you do it [more consumer protection] so that it actually works that way? And that takes analysis, and sometimes collaboration between government and business, to understand how that works.
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I am struck that so many of our leaders in the U.S. forget how strong our country can be.
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We got a lot of excellent people and businesses from Bear and WaMu. But Bear definitely was more painful. WaMu got us into Florida, California, and other states, which was a huge benefit - to expand and grow and add middle-market, private banking, investment banking, and other products, too.
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