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And everyone in Wall Street, and it's the same in City of London, it's the same in Frankfurt, it's saying, our trading businesses and our financing businesses, who were you financing?

When was the last time that we went 10 years without a big hedge fund exploding?

I don't remember that ever happening.

So I don't really get that whole thing.

It's more durable on a quarter to quarter basis, obviously.

It's a higher returning activity potentially,

but it doesn't make me feel great about the state of the system, if you know what I mean. The Trump administration's enmity for economic orthodoxy seems to be caused for dismay everywhere except Wall Street, and even then, only below the sea suite.

It almost sounds like it could be a poem, Jonathan.

A strange one to watch.

Starting off with my Wall Street Zen Coens.

Like a haiku of something. But yes, a strange one, Jamie Diamond and some of the other bosses

of the Wall Street banks, which we've seen earnings of in the past week, have really

been talking up quite a a bad situation like that

they you know there's how many economic threats are on the horizon but at the same time they're

releasing results that essentially are like looks like the banks are firing on all cylinders

so this kind of gap between the gloom and boom is the focus of this

week's views room. It's Amy. And it's Jonathan. And this is the views room, the weekly podcast,

where we dive into the naughtiest topics in business, economics, and finance. And there is an

oddball not here. We have the KBW index

of big bank stocks. It's up roughly 28% in the past year. It's way outpacing the S&P 500 index.

We've seen J.P. Morgan, Bank of America, Citigroup and so on come out with results that look

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