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Don't Do Anything Stupd. And Don't Waste Money. Let Everybody Else Waste Money And Do Stupid Things; Then We'll Buy Them.

Our Global Corporate Investment Bank Competes With Goldman Sachs, Citibank, And A Bunch Of Other Banks That Are In Those Businesses. We May Have Slightly Different Products Or Services, But So What? That's Always Been True In American Business.

We're Trying To Win Business By Doing A Good Job For The Clients, As Opposed To, "we Think Being Big And Universal Is Just A Great, Wonderful Thing." It's Not A Morality Thing. It's A "does It Work For The Client?" Thing. Everything We Do Is Because A Client Uses Us. Everything We Do Is Because A Client Chose To Use Us Of His Own Free Volition.

Banks Don't Want Certain Asset Classes, And That's Created Opportunities For Private Equity, Hedge Funds, Silicon Valley. In This Case I Think He Was Referring To Some Of The European Banks Shedding Assets, And The Big Buyers Are Probably Not Going To Be Big American Banks. Someone Like Blackstone May Have A Very Good Chance To Buy Those Assets, Leverage Them, Borrow Up A Little Bit, And Do Something Good There.

It's Hard In All Countries. Democracy Is Hard, But It's Better Than The Alternatives.