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The Motley Fool November 24, 2008 Rich Duprey	Too Big to Fail? Ha! A number of iconic businesses have seemingly found a similar magical elixir causing them to expand to such a size that they can no longer fit through the doorway of bankruptcy.
The Motley Fool June 4, 2009 Morgan Housel	Rebuilding General Motors The New GM, we hear, will be a lean, mean, profitable Motown machine. Therefore, taxpayers' 60.8% ownership stake might be worth something meaningful. Maybe even enough to recoup a significant portion of their investment.
The Motley Fool October 30, 2008	The Motley Fool Crisis Survival Kit With a calm head and a smart game plan, each of us can get through the current crisis. Read on for advice.
The Motley Fool May 26, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer	Banks Are Getting a Great Deal at Our Expense! The Treasury may be giving TARP recipients a sweet deal that will keep money out of taxpayers' pockets.
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 November 11, 2008 Alex Dumortier	Fannie, Freddie: "Keep the House!" Are taxpayers subsidizing deadbeat homeowners?
The Motley Fool November 26, 2008 Todd Wenning	A Simple Question for the Supreme Court Your silence -- as Congress, the Federal Reserve, and the Treasury Department have mortgaged the future of our country -- is deafening.
The Motley Fool July 16, 2008 Morgan Housel	Will Fannie and Freddie Go to Zero? An activist investor has proposed a plan to save Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from a complete demise, but it's anything but good news for shareholders.
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.
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 29, 2008 Morgan Housel	The Bailout: Myths, Half-Truths, and Inconsistencies Just the facts, ma'am, just the facts.
The Motley Fool October 31, 2008 Alyce Lomax	Bring On the Leaden Parachutes The sense of entitlement -- and refusal to take responsibility -- that seems pervasive in the management cultures at many public companies simply has to go.
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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 October 9, 2008 Morgan Housel	AIG's Second Bailout $85 billion here, $37.8 billion there ... but who's counting?
InternetNews September 18, 2008 Paul Shread	Stocks Soar on Hopes for Subprime Solution The stock market had its best day in six years Thursday on reports that the government could dust off an old solution to the financial crisis on Wall Street, while Oracle had surprisingly good news for the tech sector after the close.
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.
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The Motley Fool August 6, 2008 Alex Dumortier	Freddie Mac Is No Investment If you own Freddie Mac shares, the problem is that no one knows what their ultimate losses will be. And that's just one source of significant uncertainty surrounding Freddie and its big sister, Fannie Mae.
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 January 28, 2011 Alyce Lomax	Lessons From an "Avoidable" Crisis Solid corporate governance policies could help us avert the next disaster.
The Motley Fool July 11, 2008 Tom Hutchinson	The Financial System Is Cracking Banking news: Things got worse in the credit crisis this week as the market speculated that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could need a government bailout.
The Motley Fool December 31, 2009 Alyce Lomax	2009: One Long, Baffling Spit-Take 2009 was an extremely bizarre year on the investing landscape.
The Motley Fool June 24, 2009 Alyce Lomax	Citigroup: No Bonus? No Problem! The people at Citigroup aren't getting any bonuses. However, it looks like some of them are getting massive pay raises instead.
The Motley Fool January 7, 2009 Morgan Housel	4 Things Obama Can Do to Help the Economy The new administration is already up to their ears in suggestions, but here are four more changes and ideas that should be considered to bolster the economy for the long term.
The Motley Fool October 31, 2008 Morgan Housel	Should We Force Bailed Banks to Lend? Some banks are now coming under fire for not lending enough.
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 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.
The Motley Fool September 29, 2008 Scott Schedler	Fool Blog: Politics Reveals the Cowards In the face of a financial crisis, now is no time for politics as usual.
The Motley Fool October 28, 2008 Morgan Housel	Wedding Bells for Goldman and Citigroup? The next step for the financial industry looks as though it'll be massive consolidation.
The Motley Fool September 22, 2008 Alyce Lomax	Fool Blog: Paulson's Mother of All Boondoggles Congressional Democrats are trying to insert some limits on executive compensation, among other things, into the massive bailout package. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson doesn't like the idea.
The Motley Fool December 3, 2008 Alex Dumortier	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 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 October 20, 2008 Morgan Housel	Why the Bailout Makes Sense No one said that the bailout would solve anything. They did say it would prevent the financial crisis from imploding beyond recovery. From that standpoint, it's been a raging success.
The Motley Fool September 2, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer	Financial Stocks May Not Be Your Best Bet Financial stocks may be peeling back some of their recent gains, but should we really care?
The Motley Fool December 8, 2010 Morgan Housel	Citigroup Gets the Government Out of Its Hair One step closer to freedom.
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 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.
The Motley Fool November 26, 2008 Mac Greer	Michael Lewis on Wall Street's Future What will Wall Street look like in five years? A conversation with Michael Lewis, editor of the new anthology Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity, in this video.
The Motley Fool March 31, 2009 Morgan Housel	How Banks Can Exploit Geithner's Plan If the goal is to recapitalize banks in an efficient manner, there are other, more sensible ways to do it than Geithner's plan. Giving banks the ability to write their own ticket isn't one of them.
U.S. Banker September 2008 Michael Sisk	Breaking Up is Hard to Do Fannie and Freddie are not only too big to fail, they're too big to leave alone in their current form. A long-term solution that involves shrinking these institutions and severing their ties to the U.S. government is desperately needed.
The Motley Fool September 4, 2009 Morgan Housel	Fannie and Freddie: 1 Year Later A look at the first shots fired in the financial meltdown, and where we go from here.
The Motley Fool November 13, 2008 Alex Dumortier	Soros and Congress' Smokescreen Hedge funds aren't the culprits in this crisis. The only losses hedge funds have sustained will be borne by their investors -- all qualified individuals and institutions.
The Motley Fool September 22, 2009 Alyce Lomax	CEO Pay and the Parasite Economy Uncle Sam bailed out a slew of financial firms under its Troubled Asset Relief Program a year ago -- but the CEOs of these corporate welfare cases haven't exactly suffered since then.
Registered Rep. July 24, 2008	Uncle Sam: Give Us A New Bubble The debate about government's roll in the economy just got stoked big time, what with the recent news that Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson wants to shore up Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac with taxpayer dollars.
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?
The Motley Fool July 23, 2009 Morgan Housel	The $23.7 Trillion Confusion How much are taxpayers really on the hook for? Tens of trillions less than some expect.
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