Dimon: Wall Street bridge loan book dropped from $450B in 2007 to $40B
Jamie Dimon · The Jamie Dimon Interview: How JP Morgan Became an $800 Billion Bank · Acquired · Jul 16, 2025 · at 33:51
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon compares market-wide bridge loan exposure before the 2008 financial crisis to contemporary levels.
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“Like in oh seven, the bridge book of Wall Street was four hundred and fifty billion dollars. Today it's forty billion.”
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