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The Motley Fool September 11, 2008 Morgan Housel	Is Washington Mutual About to Explode? Explode? Nah. Crumble? Absolutely.
The Motley Fool September 26, 2008 Anand Chokkavelu	WaMu Gets Failed Out Another one's gone. Another one gets bigger.
The Motley Fool April 16, 2008 Morgan Housel	A House-Poor Quarter for WaMu Just days after announcing plans to raise $7 billion in new capital, slashing its dividend, and rebuffing a preliminary buyout offer from JPMorgan Chase, the Seattle-based savings and loan posts very ugly quarterly earnings.
The Motley Fool January 18, 2007 Emil Lee	Washington Mutual Regroups for 2007 WaMu's management and shareholders likely won't look back on 2006 with nostalgia. Over the past year, WaMu's stock was slightly down, while the indexes all scored double-digit gains. However, 2007 should be a better year.
The Motley Fool September 25, 2009 Morgan Housel	JPMorgan and WaMu: Was It a Good Deal? A look at one of the largest banking deals of all time, one year later.
U.S. Banker May 2008 John Engen	House of CARDS Few financial institutions have been left more imperiled by the subprime market fallout and liquidity and credit crunches than WaMu.
The Motley Fool September 25, 2008 Morgan Housel	Still Waiting at WaMu And waiting, and waiting, and waiting ...
The Motley Fool March 23, 2011 Morgan Housel	A Good Example of How Not to Run a Bank The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is suing a handful of former Washington Mutual executives for gross negligence and breach of fiduciary duty.
The Motley Fool October 26, 2009 Morgan Housel	Anatomy of a Terrible Bank A look at the failure that is Washington Mutual.
The Motley Fool September 17, 2008 Morgan Housel	What's Next for WaMu? There's no indication Washington Mutual is about to fail or file for bankruptcy anytime soon. What is clear is that turmoil in the markets puts every leveraged bank in the spotlight, and WaMu is now one of the top names attracting attention during these sea-changing events.
The Motley Fool July 20, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	WaMu Seems to Zig While Others Zag WaMu is a bank that seems to confound normal expectations. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool July 23, 2008 Morgan Housel	You Hang in There, WaMu The second quarter wasn't all bad news for Washington Mutual. Capital ratios improved. That's good. Its leaner-and-meaner cost structure could save the company $1 billion. That's great.
The Motley Fool September 11, 2007 Seth Jayson	No Such Thing as Perfect Storms Unlike the words recently spoken by Washington Mutual's CEO, the current housing crisis is not a "perfect storm" situation that blew in from the ocean by chance. The mortgage crunch is the inevitable result of cheap money, opaque financial instruments, and widespread greed.
Bank Systems & Technology February 26, 2009 Orla O'Sullivan	J.P. Morgan Chase to Cut 12,000 Jobs, as WaMu Merged J.P. Morgan Chase anticipates saving about $2 billion through its acquisition of WAMU last September. Most of the savings, to be realized this year relate to the job cuts.
The Motley Fool October 16, 2008 Morgan Housel	Wheels Stay on the Stagecoach at Wells Fargo All things considered, all's well at Wells.
The Motley Fool June 2, 2008 Morgan Housel	Bank Execs Walk the Plank After a brutal bout of losses and writedowns, another round of bank-exec demotions is shaking the financial world.
The Motley Fool April 9, 2008 Morgan Housel	WaMu Rebuffs a Sweet Offer It now appears that talks had been well under way for JPMorgan to acquire Washington Mutual -- but not anymore.
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The Motley Fool May 27, 2009 Morgan Housel	More Phantom Profits for Banks? JPMorgan Chase surges on news that accounting adjustments related to its acquisition of Washington Mutual might lead to gross gains of $29.1 billion.
The Motley Fool January 13, 2010 Matt Koppenheffer	A Fee on Big Banks? Ain't Gonna Happen This laughable move would end up hurting investors and customers.
The Motley Fool September 18, 2008 Morgan Housel	Banking Brouhaha: Day 4 Every day is filled with more financial folly than you can shake a stick at. It's as if banks are lining up on an escalator that unloads at the edge of a cliff; as soon as one falls, the next in line becomes the crisis du jour.
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The Motley Fool December 8, 2009 Alyce Lomax	Asinine Audacity at AIG Pity those poor execs, and the cruel salary cuts they must endure.
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The Motley Fool April 20, 2005 David Meier	WaMu: It Pays to Wait Earn 5% while waiting for Washington Mutual's stock price to appreciate.
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The Motley Fool October 8, 2008 Rich Duprey	Limits on CEO Pay Have No Bite The bailout bill's supposed limits on CEO pay are much ado about nothing.
The Motley Fool March 17, 2009 Mueller & Dumortier	Who's More to Blame: Mortgage Banking CEOs or Geeks Bearing Formulas? March Madness series: The financial crisis started right here, by giving a mortgage to anyone with a pulse. Or maybe it started with the model-building geeks in finance who made it possible for their banks to do the damage they did?
The Motley Fool February 8, 2007 Nathan Parmelee	HBC Makes a Courtesy Flush All of those subprime loans from the last few years are getting ready to wreak havoc. How this story continues to play out for HSBC and other banks will be very interesting to watch. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool September 16, 2008 Morgan Housel	Financial Meltdown: Day 2 Investors' worst fears came true, as insurance giant AIG had its debt downgraded, sending it frighteningly closer to the brink of bankruptcy.
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The Motley Fool January 16, 2009 Morgan Housel	JPMorgan Dodges a Bullet ... for Now The banking giant turns avoids disaster, for now, but alas, more tests are on the way.
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Fast Company March 2003 Linda Tischler	Bank of (Middle) America Execs at Washington Mutual don't model themselves after Citi or Bank of America. Instead, they look for inspiration to Wal-Mart, Target, and Southwest Airlines -- giant companies that somehow manage to keep costs low and service high and meet the needs of the middle class. And it's working.
The Motley Fool September 1, 2009 Eric Bleeker	This Is Why AIG Is Up? Really? AIG's riding a wave of general optimism and risk-hungry investors looking to earn back losses in a hurry.
The Motley Fool October 22, 2009 Morgan Housel	Farewell, Dear Bailout Almost a year to the day after the Treasury dumped tens of billions into banks, the heart of the $700 billion bank bailout called TARP is coming to an end. How did it do?
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The Motley Fool October 22, 2008 Morgan Housel	Another Insane Wall Street Pay Story One sneaky Merrill Lynch employee just scored himself a nice eight-figure windfall for no more than a few months work.
The Motley Fool October 18, 2007 Emil Lee	WaMu's Subprime Past Given the housing backdrop and the threat of recession, Washington Mutual will probably spend a bit of time digging itself out of a hole. Investors with strong stomachs could do well to catch this falling knife, but only those who aren't afraid of a little blood.
The Motley Fool April 8, 2008 Morgan Housel	WaMu's $7 Billion Hospital Visit Washington Mutual will live to see another day. But it's hardly a time of celebration for the average shareholder.
The Motley Fool April 24, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Commercial Capital Cashes Out Investors, wait on a value too long, and you might just lose it. Word broke that Washington Mutual had reached an agreement to buy this commercial real estate lender for about $983 million -- roughly $16 a share in cash.
BusinessWeek July 19, 2004 Christopher Palmeri	Lenders Switch On Their Back-Up Systems After one of the nation's largest mortgage lenders announced earnings 17% below expectations, investors wondered if the nation's three-year-long mortgage bonanza might end not with a soft landing but with an earnings-pummeling thud.
The Motley Fool June 6, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	WaMu's Plastic Play By buying Providian, Washington Mutual has added a credit card business to its retail banking. This move could bump up profitability and growth. Top that off with a pretty good dividend yield, and maybe WaMu becomes a little more attractive to investors again.
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