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I think the politics have gotten better in the United States, which makes it easier to pass legislation, budgets and treaties.

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Jamie Dimon
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: March 13
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We represent companies from around the world who say, I want to look at Japanese companies. I want to invest in Japan.
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I think the Republicans have really thoughtful financial policies, and I'm more in the middle on taxation.
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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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Dodd-Frank is 2,000 pages long. It covers thousands of rules, regulations, interpretations and things like that.
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I advise other companies' CEOs, don't fall into the trap where you go, 'Where's the growth? Where's the growth?' Where's the growth?' They feel a tremendous pressure to grow. Well, sometimes you can't grow. Sometimes you don't want to grow. In certain businesses, growth means you either take on bad clients, excess risk, or too much leverage.
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We're diversified, we're stable and consistent. Our businesses benefit from each other.
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I also believe that most of the emerging economies have a fairly large amount of foreign exchange reserves, relative to 10 years ago.
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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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If I ran the whole place like it was my way or the highway, we would not be as good a company. I'm going to have mistakes - they'll be made on my watch and will embarrass me. But I'll also make sure the company learns from them so it can become a better company.
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I don't think that [normalization] necessarily is going to damage the emerging economies.
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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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Finance went from being a small business, effectively, to being a big business. In part, that's the growth of the world's wealth. That's called savings.
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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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I think normalization is a good thing.
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