They [Chinese] have very smart, experienced people. I don't want to paint them all with the same brush. There was a little bit of a feeling that the stock market, which went from something like $4 trillion in valuation to $10 trillion, that the Chinese wanted that.

More people are working, lending is up and savings are up. These are all positive signs for a strengthening economy.

I do believe that some of these regulations made the markets more volatile, and it remains to be seen how bad that can be.

If the economy grows, housing gets better, quicker.

We're not fair weather friends. We've been in places for a long, long time.

It can take a long time to get the rules in place that are conducive to growing, sometimes.

I speak to lots of people around the world, and no one would tell you that 25 basis points will make a difference to them.