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From full global headquarters, this is Motley Full Money.

Welcome to Motley Full Money. Thanks for being here. I'm your host Chris Helm.

I'm joined by Motley Full Senior Analyst, Seth Jason, James Early, and Ron Gross.

Guys, good to see you. Good to see you.

Chris, we've got the latest from Starbucks, Microsoft, Facebook, and more.

We'll talk about the parallels between investing and gambling with ESPN sports gambling columnist Chad Millman.

Plus, as always, a look at the stocks on our radar.

But we begin with the disaster in Japan.

The largest earthquake on record to hit Japan has left untold damage, both in terms of the human toll and property damage.

Ron Gross, this is a show about business.

And I really can't put this any more eloquently than CNBC's Carl Kintonea did on Twitter.

When he wrote, people seem to think talking about the economic impact of the earthquake is crass.

It may, in fact, be what affects human lives the most.

What are your thoughts when you look at this story?

Yeah. Well, certainly our hearts go out to the people of Japan.

But when it comes from a business perspective, it's kind of four things I'm thinking through.

One is that the Japanese economy was already in a very fragile state.

So this is very unfortunate. The timing is very poor.

Interest rates are already at zero over there.

The only thing the government can really do is inject capital, which will probably increase their already high debt levels, very unfortunate.

Second property damage, the insurance implications will be very important.

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