We Can Take Our Japanese Clients Around

We Got A Lot Of Excellent People And Businesses From Bear And Wamu. But Bear Definitely Was More Painful. Wamu Got Us Into Florida, California, And Other States, Which Was A Huge Benefit - To Expand And Grow And Add Middle-market, Private Banking, Investment Banking, And Other Products, Too.

If You Can't Use Dividends, It's Not A Bad Thing To Give It Back To Your Shareholders. They'll Use It Somewhere Else.

We, Americans, Have The Best Country On The Planet. We Have Schools, Universities, Food, Water, Energy, Peaceful Neighbors, Low Corruption, You Name It, Deepest And Widest Capital Markets. That Doesn't Mean We Shouldn't Identify Problems. We Don't Have A Divine Right To Success.

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.

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.