"Resilience" is the word of the week
Marketplace
Marketplace
4.6 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The results are in, and despite concerns that the war in Iran would dampen big banks’ earnings, they’re doing just fine, thank you. On earnings calls this week, several banks shouted out consumer “resilience” for keeping everything chugging along. How long might that resilience hold up? Also in this episode: Small business owners slog through tariff refund paperwork, China is well-positioned to ride out this oil price surge, and we’ve got more of Kai’s visit to Vietnam.
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| 0:48.6 | All right, pick a word to describe this economy. |
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| 0:53.6 | Okay, now, what are the odds |
| 0:56.1 | do you think that your word |
| 0:58.4 | and the word Wall Street banks are using |
| 1:00.7 | are the same? |
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| 1:23.6 | We're going back to Vietnam, our series, The Age of Work, in just a couple of minutes. |
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