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Dimon: 80% of Federal Mortgage Settlement Targeted Bear and WaMu Conduct
“80% of what they're asking for related to Bear Stearns and Wamuu, not JPMorgan Chase.”
Dimon: JPMorgan bought WaMu at a $30B discount to book value
“We bought it for a thirty billion dollar discount to tangible book value. Because they had debt, and we left the debt behind. And so, and that thirty billion was approximately what the mortgage loss was gonna be.”
Dimon: JPMorgan raised $11B equity days after acquiring WaMu
“The next day, or two days later, I went in the market, raised another eleven billion dollars of equity, which I didn't really need, but again, this is my conservatism I was like, you know what, this could get even worse, and I don't want to be short capital li…”