We Did Not Anticipate The Political Fallout

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.

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.

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.

It's Offensive To Me To Be Called A Cost Cutter.

Part Of The Concept Of The Euro Zone Was To Establish A Common Market. The Banks Were Going To Bank Across All Their Countries Like We Bank Across States. But That Concept Got Killed For A Whole Bunch Of Reasons That I Won't Get Into. That Was A Good Concept, By The Way. It May Yet Return, Because There Are Huge Economies Of Scale In Banking. That's Another Thing People Don't Quite Get.