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I'm Ricky Mallvie.

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I'm Ricky Mallvie joined today by Bill Mann Bill man Bill good to see you.

Hey Ricky how you doing brother? I'm doing pretty well I spent I spent this morning watching

the J.P. Morgan investor conference which is basically four hours of presentations and then one hour of

Jamie Diamond at a podium with his energy. I guess my first question is, you know, just to be fair,

what are your top 15

takeaways from the first four hours of J.P. Morgan's investor.

Number one through 14 were basically that I was excited to get to the Jamie Diamond hour.

There you go.

And number 15 was that their business is in pretty good shape.

There's some stories there including some takes to bounce off of you.

But the first sort of the

first section that really needled him was about stock buybacks. The analysts

there really wanted to know about what Jamie Diamond was doing about stock buybacks.

Why are they so curious about this bill?

Well, it's funny because stock buybacks are really thought to be a very efficient way

to return cash to existing shareholders.

And in the form of, you know, there's not much in the way of tax and every share of stock

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