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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 December 16, 2008 Dave Mock	A Big Upgrade for AIG While it may be hard to believe, more top-performing CAPS members are turning bullish on American International Group these days, exhibiting optimism for the future.
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 September 30, 2008 Morgan Housel	What Part of the Bailout Plan Did You Miss? Picking apart the new plan.
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The Motley Fool November 19, 2009 Morgan Housel	You Lie, Goldman Sachs Taxpayers' bailout of AIG may have saved Goldman's life.
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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 November 6, 2008 Alex Dumortier	JPMorgan: 1, Taxpayers: -$2.7 Billion The bad news, for U.S. taxpayers at least, is that the value of Bear's portfolio has fallen since March. The Federal Reserve recently announced that it (or you the taxpayer, effectively) has a $2.7 billion paper loss on its commitment.
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The Motley Fool September 9, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer	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?
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 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.
The Motley Fool November 10, 2008 Alex Dumortier	AIG's Bailout -- Take Two AIG's original $85 billion rescue package has been scrapped as the giant insurer's condition continues to deteriorate. The new package is worth almost twice that amount.
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The Motley Fool September 19, 2008 Chuck Saletta	Will the Government Destroy American Capitalism? The law of unintended consequences is still stronger than any bailout package or regulation, and the more strongly the government intervenes, the bigger the problems it may cause.
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.
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The Motley Fool April 1, 2010 Morgan Housel	Lehman Brothers' Bankruptcy: The Greatest Hits An in-depth look at the largest bankruptcy in history.
BusinessWeek November 5, 2009 Maria Bartiromo	The Enduring Anger of Hank Greenberg A conversation with former AIG CEO Hank Greenberg.
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.
BusinessWeek April 1, 2010	Prelude to a Panic September 2008 will live in infamy as the month when the U.S. financial system ground to a halt. But for Goldman Sachs and other institutions, the real panic took place throughout 2007. Here is what happened behind the scenes at Goldman.
The Motley Fool September 10, 2009 Anand Chokkavelu	The Market Meltdown: A Year Later Are we better off today?
The Motley Fool September 30, 2008 Morgan Housel	Market Meltdown: What Happens From Here It's official: Chicken Little has been vindicated.
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The Motley Fool October 9, 2008 Christopher Barker	$700 Billion Was a Drop in the Bucket Keeping a tally of total outlays puts the scale of the crisis in context.
The Motley Fool September 19, 2008	Fool Blog: How to Waste $6,000 NBA player Doug Christie and his wife make a magnanimous offer to help the stock market.
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