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Hello, you're listening to Money Talks on Economist Radio, our weekly podcast on Business and the Markets.

I'm Simon Long, an editor here at The Economist.

And coming up on today's show, What does a strong result season for America's banks say about

the economy as a whole?

Forget diamonds, why Rhodium has become an investor's best friend and how the world's biggest

alcoholic drinks company is finding success in doing everything wrong. But first, it's results time for America's Banks, which have been publishing their fourth quarter reports.

Despite the Fed's decision to cut interest rates not once but three times,

the results of the big banks that have already reported look remarkably strong.

Will the smaller ones fare as well?

Alice Fullwood is the economist's finance correspondent.

And Alice, I mean, they were pretty remarkable some of these numbers, weren't they?

I mean, $36 billion a year in profits for J.P. Morgan Chase.

How surprising was all this?

J.P. Morgan did particularly well.

This is the sort of biggest profit number ever and in general the sort of

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