Welcome to Motley Fool Money. I'm Chris Hill, and I'm joined by Motley Fool Senior

analyst James Early, Seth Jason, and Shannon Zimmerman. Guys, thanks for being here.

Good to be with you guys. Coming up, we will talk Apple vs Amazon, offer up a few stock

ideas and share a few beefs. But we begin with the week's big business news. A good day

for the market on Thursday after Wells Fargo issued a surprise profit announcement. That would

be the same Wells Fargo that received $25 billion in government bailout money. James,

what do you make of all this? Well, Chris, the whole point of this bailout money was to jump

start lending, and Wells Fargo is very well aware of that. And I counted five mentions the word

taxpayer in their brief little press release. And this was not the formal earnings announcement

with all the information. This was just a press release with some key points just to sort of,

I guess, win public sentiment and investor sentiment. So it's good. And Wells is the first

of the big banks to report for the first quarter. This is a good sign. I mean, we'll take good news

nothing wrong with that. But the big problem remains all the bad assets still on their books.

And for that, we have to wait and see. Can we give credit to where credit is actually

do that? I mean, I don't think this has anything to do with Wells necessarily or will,

or will any of the profit coming up at any of these other banks. But how about those taxpayer

funded treasury buy downs that have created the frenzy and refinancing that is doing

pumping all this business to the banks? The news, just in terms of operating results from

Wells Fargo, is certainly better news than when Citibank about a month ago sparked this rally with

very sketchy news of profitability as well. Operating results appear to be strong. They seem to be

doing a good job of digesting will Kovia. The problem for Wells Fargo is that it remains a bank.

And so further loan losses are coming. And then the big, you know,

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