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Rachel Maddo Show with a bonus video clip for our iPhone app users from the

Colbert Report. Please listen closely at the end of the show as I have a couple of

big announcements.

You remember a little more than a year ago we gave a Bank of America city group

JP Morgan Chase and Goldman Sachs somewhere between 10 and 25 billion dollars

a piece to stave off a catastrophic implosion of their bonus system. I mean the

economy which apparently depends on them. Well good news although the

economy remains volatile as evidenced by last week's 20-minute thousand point

still hauntingly unexplained stock market drop. One sector of the economy appears

to have stabilized. Bank of America Goldman Sachs city group and JP Morgan have

just pitched a Wall Street equivalent of a perfect game. The big banks made

money every single day last quarter, zero days of losses, no days in the red

every day in the black. Yeah perfect game. Pitched by four separate teams on 61

consecutive days. It's just though the rules are set up to make it illegal for

the opposing team to use bats. February 16th earnings and manufacturing data

comes in better than expected. The stock market went up 170 points. It's no

surprise the banks would make money on that day but on February 4th unemployment

news sends the market down to it at 68 points. The banks still made money. March

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