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From full global headquarters, this is Motley Fool Money.

Welcome to Motley Fool Money. I'm your host Chris Hill, and I'm joined by Motley Fool's

Senior Analyst Seth Jason, James Early, and Shannon Zimmer.

Good to see you. Wow, that's a new thing for us.

It's a whole new opening. We got a lot to get to this week, but I got to start by thanking all of our listeners

who have been with us over the past year as Motley Fool Money grew online.

And now that we're making the official leap from podcast to broadcast,

I've got to give a shout out to our affiliate radio stations.

WZN in Portland, Maine, WBIS in Annapolis, Maryland, and WFEDAM 1500 in Washington, D.C.

Guys, we're going radio.

Pioneers, the people who are going to make all the other radio stations look late.

That's, you know what? We'll take all comers.

All radio stations.

Late comers, you're welcome as well.

Coming up later in the show, we'll be talking about Google with David Weiss,

author of the bestselling book, The Google Story.

We'll also go through some of the big name companies that reported earnings this week

and give you a look at a few of the stocks that are on our radar.

But guys, when we look at the big news this week, we have to start with President Obama's proposal

to crack down on the size and scope of banks.

Under the proposal, banks would no longer be able to own, invest in,

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