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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.

Jamie Dimon

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Jamie Dimon
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: March 13
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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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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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When the government gets involved in pricing, I don't think it's the right way to look at a business.
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We've accommodated the new rules and regulations. We've served our clients and had quite good returns.
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On Wall Street, there is no Wall Street there are individuals.
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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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Unraveling the euro is a terrible thing. This is a 50-year endeavor to get this continent together and that's a wonderful endeavor.
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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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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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Usually, something that is fairly expected is already factored in. I also think that you have to think that America is raising rates because the economy is getting stronger.
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We do all that [ represent companies], because we have a lot of research in Japanese companies, and that research educates investors around the world. It allows us to sell stocks and bonds in Japanese companies.
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It's good for America when the rest of the world grows, because you can sell more to the rest of the world.
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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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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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If it is a small rate raises, [there will be] no impact.
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Just because we're stupid doesn't mean everybody else was.
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I wanted to start by saying that the eurozone - there are two reasons they formed the European Union. One is for political peace and rationalization. And I think that's a good thing for a continent that went through hundreds of years of wars.
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Companies that build scale for the benefit of their customers and shareholders more often succeed over time.
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That's probably good, all things being equal, for emerging markets, not bad, even though it may not be great for all their currencies.
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Any good job is a good job. This whole concept of a dead-end job? It's not true. I've heard it my whole life. Jobs lead to dignity. If you're good at the first, then you can get the second. Jobs lead to household formation. Jobs are a better solution for society.
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