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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.

Jamie Dimon

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Jamie Dimon
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: March 13
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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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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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If the government wants to do social policy, it should not be done in a quasi-public company. If you have a mortgage guarantee company which is done by the U.S. government, it should be guaranteed by the originators, i.e., the shareholder.
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We're going to do the right thing for the company and our customers, all things considered.
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We invested in the downturn and we never stopped serving our clients.
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