After The Tsunami In Japan, We Were

When You Walk Into A Store And You Want To Buy Something, You Give Them Cash And They Sell It To You. But Very Often, You Walk Into Our "store" And You Want Something - A Credit Card, Maybe, Or A Loan - And Very Often The Answer Is "no," Even If You're A Large Corporation.

You've Seen Certain Credit Type Products That Are Going To Be In Nonbanks, Like Sophisticated Clo [collateralized Loan Obligation] Tranches And Stuff Where The Capital Charge Is So High That A Bank Simply Will Not Own It. Someone Will Buy It, Hedge It, Trade It. But It Won't Typically Be A Bank.

On Wall Street, There Is No "wall Street"; There Are Individuals.

The Term "too Big To Fail" Must Be Excised From Our Vocabulary.

It Takes 10 Years To Get All The Permits To Build A Bridge Today. Ten Years? What Happened To The Good Old Can-do America? Where Is "we Get It Done, We Work Together"? We've Become This Bureaucratic, Stifling Environment. I'm Not Talking About Violating Environmental Things - I'm Talking About Building A Bridge, Getting Things Going, Getting People To Work Together.