If you talk to anyone involved in business - forget banks and big business - talk to small businesses - do it yourself, don't ask me - they'll tell you it's crippling. Small-business formation is the lowest it has ever been in a recovery, and it's really for two reasons. One is regulations and the second is access to capital for people starting new businesses.
Jamie DimonJPMorgan is a very good franchise. And the way you should look at a franchise, a business, is from the standpoint of the customers.
Jamie DimonWe did not anticipate the political fallout from it. We definitely didn't need it and we paid it back the first day we were allowed to.
Jamie DimonFinance 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.
Jamie DimonI'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 DimonThe Trump administration's economic agenda is the right agenda. Corporate taxes have been driving capital and brains and companies overseas for a decade. It has caused huge damage in investment and jobs and productivity. It was a mistake. We have to fix it. Counterintuitively, that usually helps middle-class wages, and lower-class wages, and job formation.
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