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Well, if you were the American public, you saw a catastrophe. In general, you would say, The biggest institutions of America - Washington, broadly, and Wall Street, broadly - they're to blame. And, broadly, they're right.

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Jamie Dimon
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: March 13
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