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The Motley Fool September 22, 2008 Morgan Housel	Can We Afford All of These Bailouts? There was another period of time when the financial system was allowed to collapse and banks were allowed to fail left and right. The ensuing period was so horrific, no one dares to call it anything less than the Great Depression.
The Motley Fool March 17, 2008 Seth Jayson	Bernanke Bails Out Bear Has Bernanke saved the financial system, or has he guaranteed that we pay for Wall Street's mistakes?
The Motley Fool August 25, 2008 Morgan Housel	Bernanke Will Take Your Shares to Zero Ben Bernanke speaks out about the "moral hazard" dilemma of giving firms the perception of being "too big to fail."
The Motley Fool December 31, 2008	The 10 Biggest Stories of 2008 What Bear Stearns' fallout means for investors... The people responsible for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac... Why you should care that Lehman went bust... Black Sunday on Wall Street... AIG's failure is so much bigger than Enron's... etc.
The Motley Fool September 8, 2008 Rich Duprey	Paulson to Fannie and Freddie Investors: Drop Dead The Treasury secretary's plans to nationalize Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae will wipe out investors.
BusinessWeek February 4, 2010 James Pressley	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 August 27, 2008 Alyce Lomax	Fool Blog: Uncle Sam, Please Let Something Fail! Someone, anyone, please acknowledge that we still operate under some semblance of capitalism -- let a company fail for a change.
The Motley Fool March 4, 2009 Kristin Graham	Bring Back Our Free Markets The government needs to let businesses fail so that we are left with businesses that will generate long-term productivity and positive returns for our economy as a whole.
U.S. Banker November 2008 Michael Sisk	Too Big to Fail? Institutions can be too big to fail. Not only that, the failure of even small institutions can have unforeseen and damaging ripple effects in markets.
The Motley Fool September 9, 2009 Alex Dumortier	One Year Later: The Big Risk We're Still Facing This fundamental risk is larger than ever. Banks that are "too big to fail" benefit from an implicit taxpayer subsidy since their funding costs do not adequately reflect the risk of failure.
The Motley Fool March 17, 2008 Tom Hutchinson	Credit Crunch Cuts Down Bear Stearns Bear Stearns sells itself to avoid filing for bankruptcy.
The Motley Fool June 17, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer	Will Obama's Plan Lead to Financial Failure? Only time will tell if Obama's plan will lead to a better system or just a bureaucratic mess.
The Motley Fool September 17, 2008 Morgan Housel	The Fall of AIG Why did the Fed ultimately decide to bail out AIG?
The Motley Fool October 20, 2009 Dayana Yochim	Report From the White House: Too Big to Fail, and Getting Bigger Here is the fourth installment of our interview with Austan Goolsbee, chief economist for the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board.
The Motley Fool August 6, 2008 Anand Chokkavelu	Fool Blog: Government Bailout for GM and Ford? Bloomberg reports that a Michigan Congressman is seeking to speed up the implementation of a $25 billion loan program for the U.S. automakers.
The Motley Fool April 4, 2008 Tom Hutchinson	Congress Grills Bernanke Over Bear Recent hearings debated the Fed's role in bailing out Bear Stearns.
The Motley Fool September 11, 2008 Alex Dumortier	A Scorecard for the Fannie, Freddie Bailout As the dust settles on the first stage of the rescue of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, it's time to chalk up winners and losers.
The Motley Fool March 17, 2009 Caplinger & Bylund	Who's More to Blame: Ben Bernanke or Credit Derivatives? March Madness series: The derivatives that are behind this debacle have been around a lot longer than the three years that Bernanke has headed the Fed. Are they to blame? Or should Ben Bernanke have been more direct in calling for changes to be made?
The Motley Fool July 17, 2008 Chuck Saletta	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 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 September 22, 2008 Anand Chokkavelu	Fool Blog: Last Week's Top 10 Financial Shocks A whole pile of stunning news combined last week to become the biggest financial story of the past 50 years.
The Motley Fool November 24, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer	Maybe We Should Have Let the Banks Fail The bailout may have kept the financial system afloat, but are we setting ourselves up for more pain?
The Motley Fool August 19, 2008 Morgan Housel	Freddie Shareholders: There's Nothing Left A Barrons article highlighted the truth: There's literally nothing left for common shareholders of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, particularly regarding Freddie.
The Motley Fool March 17, 2009 Bleeker & Williamson	Who's More to Blame: The SEC or Fannie and Freddie? March Madness series: Which government-ish entity do you choose? The SEC has more than enough complicity in this mess, but Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were set up to fail from the start.
Reason January 2009 Michael Flynn	Anatomy of a Breakdown Concerted government policy helped trigger the financial meltdown -- and will almost certainly extend it.
The Motley Fool March 17, 2009 Morgan Housel	Bear Stearns: 1 Year Later One year ago today, markets learned that Bear Stearns had gone kaboom, agreeing to be sold to JPMorgan Chase. What have we learned since then?
The Motley Fool April 5, 2011 Morgan Housel	A History of U.S. Government Bailouts Truth is, the U.S. has been giving bailouts for decades. While the 2008 bailouts were the largest, they were by no means the first time Uncle Sam has come to the rescue of failing businesses. Here's a brief history of intervention.
The Motley Fool March 27, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer	Does Anybody Have Any Idea What's Going On? The government is taking bold action, but do we really know what needs to be fixed?
The Motley Fool March 2, 2009 Morgan Housel	What's Next? Dow 5,000? It might not be far off. But as the markets keep falling, the selling is getting more and more rational.
The Motley Fool March 24, 2008 Morgan Housel	Bear Stearns Gets Sweeter JPMorgan ups its bid for the embattled investment bank to $10 per share, a five-time jump above its original, paltry offer.
The Motley Fool January 22, 2010 Rich Duprey	Obama's Glass Ceiling Resurrecting the Depression-era Glass-Steagall Act won't solve anything.
The Motley Fool July 9, 2008 Rich Duprey	Getting Burned by Bernanke His proposal to expand the Fed's power might incinerate the economy.
The Motley Fool December 8, 2008 Rich Duprey	No Equality in Bailout Automakers will never get the sweetheart deal that was given to Wall Street.
The Motley Fool April 8, 2009 Morgan Housel	They're All Too Big to Fail Plenty of Wall Street banks -- all of them "too big to fail" -- are still ticking time bombs when it comes to bloated derivative books.
The Motley Fool November 29, 2010 Russ Krull	Betting on Bailouts Using the recent U.S. bailout track record as a guide for investing in Europe.
The Motley Fool December 2, 2009 Sean Ryan	The Wrong Way to End "Too Big to Fail" The case against Glass-Steagall 2.0. Enshrine in law that henceforth, shareholders and creditors are on their own. No more privatized gains and socialized losses.
The Motley Fool December 4, 2008 Todd Wenning	The Best Way to Spend the Bailout Money Instead of trying to fix the broken past, perhaps the best way to spend the bailout money is to make investments in the future, and that must begin with an investment in education -- specifically financial education.
The Motley Fool November 25, 2008 David Lee Smith	Bring Down the Hammer on a Builders' Bailout The automakers haven't succeeded -- yet -- but the builders want your help.
The Motley Fool January 22, 2010 Morgan Housel	Will This Fix Our Financial System? Will yesterday's proposed overhauls -- touted by some as a return to the Glass-Steagall days -- sufficiently stomp on sin and folly?
BusinessWeek May 6, 2009 Theo Francis et al.	Too Big to Fail: Still an Issue Unless government leaders figure out a way to shrink global finance giants to manageable sizes, taxpayers will surely foot the bill for more bailouts.
The Motley Fool September 20, 2007 Seth Jayson	Bear and the Housing Carcass Investors, do you think Ben Bernanke's half-point rate cut can save housing, like the folks at the National Association of Realtors claim? Then take just the briefest peak at the earnings release from Bear Stearns.
The Motley Fool September 15, 2008 Brian Richards	Roundtable: Why You Should Care That Lehman Went Bust Lehman Brothers will soon be no more. Merrill Lynch is being acquired by Bank of America. And AIG is desperately trying to shore up its capital. These events are, without exaggeration, the biggest Wall Street headlines in a decade.
The Motley Fool March 25, 2008 Chuck Saletta	You're Being Taken to the Cleaners You and I are subsidizing the risks that JPMorgan and Bear Stearns are taking, and their shareholders and managers are receiving the rewards.
The Motley Fool March 18, 2008 Morgan Housel	What Can JPMorgan Do With Bear Stearns? If JPMorgan can pull Bear back to even a fraction of its former self, the acquisition will go down in history as one of the most lucrative deals ever made.
The Motley Fool November 13, 2009 Moscovitz & Housel	It's Time to End 'Too Big to Fail' We spent the latter half of 2008 feeling the wrath of "too big to fail." Today, banks are bigger than ever. We need to end that. Now.
The Motley Fool December 2, 2008 Morgan Housel	The Very Real Cost of Doing Nothing You're right: $3.9 trillion is really just a drop in the bucket.
The Motley Fool October 2, 2009 Morgan Housel	The Biggest Bank Deals That Never Happened You think you've seen too big to fail? You ain't seen nothing.
The Motley Fool November 19, 2008 Rich Duprey	The Trillion-Dollar Bailout No one knows how high the bailout will ultimately be. But that's certainly not a clarion call for opening the nation's purse strings, or for giving unprecedented authority to regulators to go on a spending spree.
The Motley Fool August 1, 2008 Rich Duprey	Bernanke's Bid to Rule Zimbabwe If the Fed chairman and Treasury secretary have their way, we're gonna need $1 billion Zimbabwean notes.
Reason January 2009 Katherine Mangu-Ward	Is Deregulation to Blame? The new Washington consensus says "yes." The facts on the ground say something different.