Jamie Dimon
speaker
1,379 appearances
70 recordings
17 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 16 Jul
Jamie Dimon’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So we couldn't lend the $30 billion.
And the Fed technically couldn't lend the $30 billion, but the Fed could lend to us technically, and I could technically use the collateral of Bear Stearns, so we got the literally one-day loan.
And then the next day, we had thousands of people come in due diligence, and we went through every loan, every asset, every balance sheet, all the derivatives, all the lawsuits, all the HR policies, like real due diligence, a two- or three-day period, and bought the company at that night $2 a share.
Hank Paulson was saying,
Why are you paying anything for it?
I said, well, I do have to get shareholder votes.
It was a public deal.
And the worst part of it is I was going to get the lawsuit from the bear holders.
And I knew that- That you didn't pay enough for them.
But we couldn't let it go bankrupt.
It wasn't like an industrial car you can buy in bankruptcy.
It would have been gone.
And the crisis would have just unfolded.
No.
So we already had, so that was March.
What happened with Lehman, it was an uncontrolled failure.
There was money locked up everywhere.
People panicked.
They started pulling money out of everything.
That would have happened with Bayer.
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