No One Can Forecast The Economy With

I Think The Politics Have Gotten Better In The United States, Which Makes It Easier To Pass Legislation, Budgets And Treaties.

People Always Say To Me, "what If It Doesn't Work?" If It Doesn't Work, We Redouble Our Effort. We're Not Going To Cry Like A Bunch Of Babies. We're Going To Redouble Our Effort.

It Might Be Harder For Us To Charge A Higher Interest Rate, Like They Do, So It Might Not Be As Profitable For Us. But We Can Either Compete Or Partner, Like We've Announced With On Deck, Which Does Some Of The Stuff We Just Spoke About.

At Travelers, We Were Much More Opportunistic. It Was Very Successful, But It Wasn't An Integrated Financial Services Company. We Had A Property Casualty Company, A Life Company, A Brokerage Company. We Were A Financial Conglomerate. It Wasn't A Unified, Coordinated Strategy Of Any Sort. When It Merged With Citi, That Became A Big Issue; Citi, At That Time, Wasn't Yet A Fully Integrated, Coordinated Company.

You Don't Run A Business Hoping You Don't Have A Recession.