Banks Also Have To Say No To

But In General, As Countries Get Wealthier, There's Going To Be More Savings, Which Means You're Going To Have Intermediation. So Part Of It Is Just The Huge Growth In Wealth, And Part Of It Was Globalization - These Companies, These Clients Getting Much Bigger And Much More Global.

Just Because You Have A Good Hand Today Doesn't Mean It's Good Tomorrow. And Some Of The Things We're Doing May Become Very Disadvantageous At Some Point.

Not Every Company Went Bankrupt. Not Every Bank Needed Tarp [troubled Asset Relief Program]. So I'm Very Proud That Jpmorgan, Throughout That Time Period, Was Completely Steadfast. We Bought Bear Stearns Because We Thought We Were Helping The Situation. We Didn't Cut And Run.

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.

It Might Be Harder For Us To Charge A Higher Interest Rate, Like They Do, So It Might Not Be As Profitable For Us. But We Can Either Compete Or Partner, Like We've Announced With On Deck, Which Does Some Of The Stuff We Just Spoke About.