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We had a lot of gridlock on a lot of issues. But, the American system is pretty resilient.

Jamie Dimon

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Jamie Dimon
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: March 13
Banker
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New York City
New York
James Dimon
James Jamie Dimon
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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 am struck that so many of our leaders in the U.S. forget how strong our country can be.
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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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It can take a long time to get the rules in place that are conducive to growing, sometimes.
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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 think if we had another set of policies for - not the crisis years, but after that, that we might be growing faster. But we didn't. And some of that was Republicans' [fault], by the way.
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India is a huge democracy. Prime Minister [Narendra] Modi has ambitions to try to fix the infrastructure, the rules, taxes, education, and to lift up the Indian people. And we're hopeful that that's going to create positive momentum.
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Prime Minister Modi [Narendra] is strong enough, and he's accomplished much.
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There are parts [in Dodd-Frank] that I don't agree with. But, in total, it is what it is.
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One of the issues with some of these lenders is going to be, where will their provider of credit be when there's a crisis? That's why some of these smarter services, to support their operations, are courting more permanent capital. They want a source of longer-term funding that can survive a crisis.
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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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My father and grandfather were stockbrokers, and they would actually take stock certificates from a vault, give it to a runner, and send it to another vault. Then somebody said, Let's digitize it and have one vault. Now the DTCC clears and settles almost everything, and the cost of doing a trade is a tenth of what it was before.
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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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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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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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