1/ JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon answers a speed round of questions for #AxiosOnHBO, covering:
🤝 Trump vs. Biden
💼 Best CEOs
🤑 Bitcoin
🇺🇸 Best + worst of government
2/ 🤝 Comparing Trump vs. Biden
On Trump: "Very different alone than public. He's not that same way in the public."
On Biden: "Same in public in private and is very civil. ... Wants to help everybody."
3/ 💼 Best CEO not named Jamie Dimon?
"Jeff Bezos ... Tim Cook."
On what makes them great: "Innovation, drive. Serving customers."
4/ 🤑 Bitcoin: Fool's gold of the future?
"All a bit of fool's gold."
On whether it should be regulated: "Yes. ... You can't regulate everything a bank does in terms of moving money and not regulate what you would call money."
5/5 🇺🇸 Government: Smartest and dumbest things it does?
Smartest: "Military."
Dumbest: "Bad policy. ... Almost nothing we touch has been done well in the last 30 years."
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