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I'm a really big believer - this is not a statement about President [Barack] Obama, but whoever is president - that good policy is really important.

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Jamie Dimon
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: March 13
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It might be harder for us to charge a higher interest rate, like they do, so it might not be as profitable for us. But we can either compete or partner, like we've announced with On Deck, which does some of the stuff we just spoke about.
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I don't think that [normalization] necessarily is going to damage the emerging economies.
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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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If you were a corporation needing financial services, and I can give you something better, faster, and cheaper across 12 products as opposed to eight, that's business. I'm doing it because I'm serving you I'm not doing it because I want to be universal.
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But in general, as countries get wealthier, there's going to be more savings, which means you're going to have intermediation. So part of it is just the huge growth in wealth, and part of it was globalization - these companies, these clients getting much bigger and much more global.
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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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No one can forecast the economy with certainty.
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JP Morgan always has higher capital liquidity, that is partially to make up for mistakes and problems and obviously its a tough economy. We support an oversight committee, we supported some of the compensation, new compensation rules, though we already follow most of them. We support a lot of it.
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The term too big to fail must be excised from our vocabulary.
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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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Dodd-Frank is 2,000 pages long. It covers thousands of rules, regulations, interpretations and things like that.
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I do believe that some of these regulations made the markets more volatile, and it remains to be seen how bad that can be.
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Japan, Europe, [and] America probably [are] better than last year [2015], not China.
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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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We had a lot of gridlock on a lot of issues. But, the American system is pretty resilient.
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The transaction reflects our disciplined strategy of investing capital in core businesses where we can leverage scale and expertise for competitive advantage. In addition to being a great strategic fit, the deal is compelling financially.
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It's great that people get together and collaborate, talk about the facts and the analysis, all in the interest of having a great financial system.
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I don't mind paying higher taxes, because I've done quite well and I'm blessed to live in this country.
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If you have the choice, it's far better to say, That person has the job, and they really don't need that much of my oversight. Maybe they don't need any of it.
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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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