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Like, how did he know it was not gonna go? Oh, it's tipping. Okay. I would definitely know. That would be very obvious that you would want to get out of there at that point. Wow. And he gets out of the parachute. I wonder. I wonder how much of that was, like, planned to be. Okay, we're testing the ejector seat. Or he just knew. Okay, I got a. It was called nicknamed Flying Bedstead for good reason. It looked like a bed frame and it flew like one too. Yeah. Flying that on Earth. It's not exactly the most aerodynamic, aerodynamic vehicle, but Kalshi has a market on when will Artemis 2 launch? It is soaring. We are now at 89% before April 2nd. So. 89% chance it launches today. Basically, 92% chance that it launches. Launches before April 4th. So Jamie Dimon's been on an absolute tear. He is hiring people. He's restating his vision for America. There's an article in the Wall Street Journal here. He has a plan for JP Morgan to rescue the American Dream. That's a very exciting, exciting idea. Let's run through Jamie Dimon's plan for America. He's running. I think he should. Jamie Dimon thinks the American Dream is on life support and he is planning for JP Morgan Chase to step in. The nation's largest bank announced the American Dream initiative on a commitment from JP Morgan to support small businesses, homeownership, access to health care and other economic priorities that Dimon believes are crucial for the well being of Americans. The bank already finances all of the above and says it's ready to put more resources into the effort. Dimon, 70 years old and CEO of JP Morgan since 2006, has long worried about the future of the American economy and wealth inequality. More recently, he has warned that the country is sleepwalking into economic stasis thanks to bad policies and rules that make it hard to invest in new ventures and run companies. I am deeply frightened, frustrated by our own policies in America, he said last week at the Hill and Valley Forum. We've become like Europe. We're unable to move and change. That's strong words. J.P. morgan hasn't been slowed, bringing in more profit than any bank in the U.S. history, in U.S. history. But it reaches across Main street and Wall street and does better when the whole economy is chugging along. Dimon has a habit of making big commitments a little bit. It's a big commitment having that on. Diamond has a habit of making big commitments in tune with the zeitgeist. JP Morgan announced a $1.5 trillion investment platform focused on national security and supply chains last year, just as the federal government started to invest in critical suppliers. It made a $30 billion racial equity commitment after the murder of George Floyd and a $2.5 trillion climate change plan in 2021. Now the bank is committing to adding 3 million new small business customers on top of 7 million today. They want to get to 10 and it wants to lend them up to 80 billion over the next 10 years through loans and support for community oriented banks and investment funds. The bank reported 33 billion of loans to small businesses and other customers at the end of 2025. So they want to expand significantly. It's just a 30% bump in total number of small businesses, but they want to basically triple the amount of the loan book Broadly, the American Dream means you can buy a home, start a business, you can build wealth and you can afford health care for your family, JP Morgan's head of corporate responsibility, Tim Berry said in an interview. We want to bring our capabilities and make that more real to families and customers. They're helming the new American Dream initiative and acknowledge that a lot of it isn't really new. JPMorgan has been looking to grow deeper roots in the cities and towns where it does business, rolling out specialty branches focused on community education. For years, it has invested big in cities where it has found business friendly leadership, including Detroit and San Francisco. The initiative and ambitious goals are supposed to jumpstart JP Morgan bankers and business employees to do more. When we think about the impact that we've had locally in a place like Detroit, we know that success can be replicated in other places. So they are opening up the pocketbook to spur small business. Very exciting. In other Jamie Dimon news, he just hired or recently hired Warren Buffett's protege. There's a profile in Barron's by Andy Serwer JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon doesn't usually make high profile outside hires for his senior executive team, preferring instead the homegrown variety that makes Todd Combs, formerly a top investment manager Berkshire Hathaway poached and brought in to head up JP Morgan's Chase New 10 billion strategic investment group. An exception. Except that Holmes is hardly a bolt from the blue. I like that. That's, that's a good turn of phrase, having served on JP Morgan's board since 2016. Okay, so he's a board member, so he clearly knows everyone already, he says. I know the company well, combs tells Barrons in his first interview as a bank employee. I know everyone from Jamie to the operating committee and the next layer of management. I'm well aware of the balance sheet, the excess capital and how Jamie and the team think and operate. Like the bank's other top executives, Combs, who's been CEO of Berkshire Geico Insurance unit, is still settling into his new office on the 47th floor of JP Morgan's new Manhattan head quarters. I hope you don't mind the warm office, says Combs, a tennis playing Florida native. I don't like the cold, he says. Combs mapped out his new gig, which began in January, on a two column chart he sketched on a notepad. Interesting. He's old school. Old school.