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July 9, 2008
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Getting Burned by Bernanke His proposal to expand the Fed's power might incinerate the economy. |
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Mortgage-Rate Mojo Ever wonder what causes mortgage rates to rise and fall? Well, know that they fluctuate along with other interest rates. |
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September 9, 2009
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Bernanke, Paulson, and Geithner: Champs or Chumps? It's been a year since the financial markets went splat. Have government officials succeeded in combating the collapse? |
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December 2, 2008
Alex Dumortier |
Paulson Calls a Bottom in the Mortgage Market It's worth listening to a hedge fund manager who has a clue. |
The Motley Fool
November 26, 2008
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The $800 Billion Pick-Me-Up for Consumer Credit The central bank announces an $800 billion support package aimed at spurring mortgage lending and consumer credit, including car, credit card, and small business loans. |
BusinessWeek
February 4, 2010
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The Meltdown According to Hank Paulson How the former Treasury Secretary, exhausted and careworn, labored to save the financial system -- and made plenty of mistakes. |
The Motley Fool
June 14, 2010
Russ Krull |
The Government: Worst Investor Ever? Here's a closer look at the U.S. Treasury's recent investments. |
The Motley Fool
September 17, 2008
Morgan Housel |
The Fall of AIG Why did the Fed ultimately decide to bail out AIG? |
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May 3, 2010
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This Ticking Time Bomb Will Cost Trillions We're getting too used to low interest rates. |
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September 10, 2009
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The Market Meltdown: A Year Later Are we better off today? |
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April 7, 2010
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The End of Wall Street? The sad truth is that Wall Street is much the same as it was before; it's Main Street that may never be the same again. |
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March 17, 2008
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Why Bernanke Is Ignoring You Rate cuts aren't finding their way to cash-strapped consumers. |
The Motley Fool
July 17, 2008
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Bernanke's Complete and Utter Failure If the Fed's rate cut six months ago had been the extent of its command-and-control meddling, we might've been out of the woods by now. Sadly, it wasn't, and we're not. |
The Motley Fool
December 12, 2007
Dan Caplinger |
Is the Fed Smart, Dumb, or Both? One day, the market thinks the Federal Reserve chairman is the dumbest guy on Earth. The next morning, he's the master of the universe. The reality is somewhere in between -- but try telling that to traders who get whipsawed repeatedly. |
The Motley Fool
July 25, 2008
Dan Caplinger |
The Last Straw for Suffering Homeowners A spike in mortgage rates threatens any chance of a housing recovery. |
The Motley Fool
October 20, 2008
Chuck Saletta |
Paulson's Offer No Bank Could Refuse Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson sat the leaders of several of the biggest and most powerful banks in America together in a room and literally made them an offer they couldn't refuse. When life imitates "The Godfather," we'd all better watch out. |
The Motley Fool
March 14, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Bear Stearns Hits the Panic Button Investment bank Bear Stearns liquidity woes prove to be true; the bank announces that it will receive short-term financing from the Federal Reserve and rival JPMorgan Chase. |
The Motley Fool
December 2, 2004 |
Why Mortgage Rates Rise and Fall Remember that the money markets themselves (basic supply and demand for money at each price point) exert the biggest influence over interest rates, though the Fed is a big influence on market expectations. |
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January 2009
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The Fed's Binge How the Federal Reserve engineered the most dramatic peacetime experiment in monetary and fiscal stimulus in U.S. history without anyone noticing |
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November 1, 2008
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4 Questions with Tom Atteberry Tom Atteberry, co-manager of First Pacific Advisors, took heat for his concern about the credit market years ago. He speaks about this position now -- and that of our economy. |
The Motley Fool
August 1, 2008
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This Week's Big Economic Stories More job woes... Greenspan speaks... The next great bond boom... GDP hanging in... Quick economic numbers... |
The Motley Fool
March 18, 2008
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What Can the Fed Do? The Federal Reserve did not "bail out" Bear Stearns. Read on to learn more about what the Fed can, and cannot, do. |
The Motley Fool
April 20, 2010
Alex Dumortier |
Revealed: How JPMorgan Prints Money With the Fed's help, JPMorgan achieves a rare feat. |
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July 3, 2008
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Bracing for More Bad News From Banks The earnings forecasts from the financial sector for the second quarter are increasingly pessimistic. |
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April 14, 2008
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Why Paulson's Plan Works Saluting the Secretary of the Treasury's proposed overhaul of financial institution regulations. |
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October 9, 2008
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$700 Billion Was a Drop in the Bucket Keeping a tally of total outlays puts the scale of the crisis in context. |
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March 14, 2008
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Quick Take: Stop the Presses, Ben! The Federal Reserve surprised equity markets by launching a new weapon against the mortgage meltdown and the resulting credit crisis, but the dollar suffers. |
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November 21, 2008
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Tim Geithner, This Mess Is Yours What do you think about the new treasury pick? |
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March 24, 2009
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Has Bernanke Lost His Marbles? Looks like the Fed will run the printing press until we run out of trees. |
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December 21, 2010
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Bernanke's Best One-Liners of 2010 Central banking isn't all grim and sober. Here are some one-liners for 2010 from Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke. |
The Motley Fool
June 5, 2008
Tom Hutchinson |
Bernanke Changes Strategy The Fed chief has taken the fight to inflation. |
The Motley Fool
November 26, 2008
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$3.9 Trillion Was a Drop in the Bucket Keeping a tally of total outlays puts the unfathomable scale of the crisis in context. |
BusinessWeek
August 6, 2009
Roben Farzad |
Bernanke, Flying by the Seat of His Pants In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic, by David Wessel, is an engrossing look at the central bank's swift reaction to the crisis, and how it is wielding its power. |
The Motley Fool
April 4, 2008
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Congress Grills Bernanke Over Bear Recent hearings debated the Fed's role in bailing out Bear Stearns. |
The Motley Fool
September 16, 2008
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Wall Street's $70 Billion Facade In the wake of Lehman Brothers' failure this weekend, 10 major banks, including the remaining investment banks, are creating a $70 billion fund that any one of the participants can borrow from in a crunch. |
The Motley Fool
March 18, 2009
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Bernanke Swarms In I just worry he won't be able to swarm out as quickly. |
BusinessWeek
September 3, 2007
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It's Out Of Bernanke's Reach There's little the Fed can do about the information gap behind investors' panic. |
The Motley Fool
September 23, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Bad Luck for Good Banks There are all sorts of negative consequences to the proposed bailout deal but what about other innocent victims of this mess: the few banks that aren't in trouble? |
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March 24, 2008
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How the Fed Rescues Markets Lower interest rates support stock prices in several ways. |
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June 2009 |
Uncharted Territory When aggressive monetary policy combats a crisis. This chart shows how radically policy thinking has changed in the past century. |
The Motley Fool
December 3, 2008
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GAO to Paulson: Get Your TARP in Order The Government Accountability Office chides the Treasury Department for failing to address a number of key issues with respect to the Troubled Asset Relief Program. |
The Motley Fool
April 14, 2010
Morgan Housel |
Bailout Cost Plummets: Good News? It seems the bailouts taxpayers ponied up to save the financial system are going to cost a lot less than we thought. |
The Motley Fool
August 25, 2009
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Bernanke Is Sentenced to 4 More Years President Obama announced his nomination of "Helicopter" Ben Bernanke to a second term as chairman of the Fed. Bernanke is game -- but is he the right choice? |
The Motley Fool
February 19, 2009
Christopher Barker |
$8.6 Trillion Was a Drop in the Bucket Keeping a tally of total potential outlays puts the scale of the crisis in context. |
The Motley Fool
July 14, 2008
Alex Dumortier |
Why Fannie and Freddie Were Doomed After a stunning week in which the government-sponsored enterprises saw nearly half their stock market value erased, the Treasury and the Federal Reserve announced three measures to reassure the market. But how did we get into this mess in the first place? |
The Motley Fool
March 25, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Ben Bernanke Got Punk'd Yesterday's five-fold increase in JPMorgan's bidding price for Bear Stearns is a slap in the face to the Fed-fueled buyout that Ben Bernanke helped orchestrate. |
Finance & Development
September 2010
Ashok Vir Bhatia |
After the Supernova Crisis management lessons from the IMF's assessment of the U.S. financial system. |
The Motley Fool
April 11, 2008
Chuck Saletta |
The Next Unsustainable Asset Bubble As long as the first response to any financial stress is a quick infusion of cheap money, the formation of the next bubble is a virtual certainty. |
BusinessWeek
July 30, 2009
Michael Mandel |
Behind Bernanke's Charm Offensive The Fed's New Worry: Popularity. For a central bank dependent on Congress for bailout funds, approval ratings matter. And they're not good |
