It Is Vital For Officials And Regulators

It's Great That People Get Together And Collaborate, Talk About The Facts And The Analysis, All In The Interest Of Having A Great Financial System.

My Operating Assumption Is We Will Always Have Very Tough Competition. And Even With Some European Banks Struggling Right Now, Some Of Them Can Reemerge - And Maybe Even Stronger.

The United States Has The Best, Deepest, Widest, And Most Transparent Capital Markets In The World Which Give You, The Investor, The Ability To Buy And Sell Large Amounts At Very Cheap Prices. That Is A Good Thing.

If You Look At Detroit, That Mayor, It's Been A Train Wreck For 40 Years, The Population Has Gone From 2 Million To 700,000. This Mayor Comes In, And He Talked About Streetlights, Sanitation, Jobs, Policing, Schools, Affordable Housing. He's Doing It All, And It's Growing For The First Time In 30 Years. Literally, One Man. But That One Man Couldn't Do It Without Business. And Business Couldn't Have Done It Without A Political Environment Where They Wanted To Improve Things. If You Had An Antibusiness Environment There, It Would Still Be Down There.

The Best Way To Look At Any Business Is From The Standpoint Of The Clients. So There Are These Certain Basic Things That Aren't Going To Change. Companies Are Going To Have Needs For Equity, Debt, Advice, Fx, And Derivatives. Individuals Are Going To Have Needs For Auto Loans, Mortgages, Something That Looks Like A Deposit Account, And The Ability To Send Money To People. Those Things Aren't Going To Change.