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In case you're wondering -- deep down inside, here's what Jamie Dimon really thinks about that pesky regulation stuff: In a new afterword for the release of th
by kafkaesq 11y ago
In case you're wondering -- deep down inside, here's what Jamie Dimon really thinks about that pesky regulation stuff:
In a new afterword for the release of the paperback version of her book A Fighting Chance, Warren recalls that the tenor of the conversation between the two policy adversaries soured when Dimon complained about financial regulations that she has supported:
When the conversation turned to financial regulation and Dimon began complaining about all the burdensome rules his bank had to follow, I finally interrupted. I was polite, but definite. No, I didn’t think the biggest banks were overregulated. In fact, I couldn’t believe he was complaining about regulatory constraints less than a year after his bank had lost billions in the infamous London Whale high-risk trading episode. I said I thought the banks were still taking on too much risk and that they seemed to believe the taxpayers would bail them out -- again -- if something went wrong.
Our exchange heated up quickly. By the time we got to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, we weren’t quite shouting, but we were definitely raising our voices. At this point -- early in 2013 -- Rich Cordray was still serving as director of the consumer agency under a recess appointment; he hadn’t yet been confirmed by the Senate, which meant that the agency was vulnerable to legal challenges over its work. Dimon told me what he thought it would take to get Congress to confirm a director, terms that included gutting the agency’s power to regulate banks like his. By this point I was furious. Dodd-Frank had created default provisions that would automatically go into effect if there was no confirmed director, and his bank was almost certainly not in compliance with the those rules. I told him that if that happened, “I think you guys are breaking the law.”
Suddenly Dimon got quiet. He leaned back and slowly smiled. “So hit me with a fine. We can afford it.”
"Guess What Happened When JPMorgan's CEO Visited Elizabeth Warren's Office"
Huffington Post, 3/31/2015, http://huff.to/1CHlXIy http://huff.to/1CHlXIy
- snowwrestler 11y agoAccording to Elizabeth Warren...
- kafkaesq 11y agoI highly doubt she's lying, if that's what you're saying.