Chase paid top dollar and this is going create substantial strains on Chase. There's tremendous execution risk going forward. I think it's going to be a very difficult cultural fit.
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In the latter stage of his career he became a product of his time deal-driven, acquisition-oriented and power-oriented. It forced him to do things that he wouldn't have done earlier in his career when he was picking up valuable merchandise at discount prices.
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It's a really high price and not many people are willing to pay that, so I think Lehman is the more obvious,
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