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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 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 18, 2008 Morgan Housel	$700 Billion Bailout? Not So Fast Only $290 billion of the original $350 billion have been used so far, and Hank Paulson has said he's unlikely to use the remaining $410 billion, at least for the time being.
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 October 1, 2008 Morgan Housel	Fool Poll: How Should the Senate Vote? Two days after the House of Representatives voted down the proposed financial bailout plan, the Senate will meet this evening to vote on a similar proposal. Similar, but not completely the same.
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 October 2, 2008 Morgan Housel	Bailout: One Down, One to Go The Senate passed it -- all eyes turn back to the House.
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 September 30, 2008 Morgan Housel	Market Meltdown: What Happens From Here It's official: Chicken Little has been vindicated.
The Motley Fool February 10, 2009 Morgan Housel	Will This Plan Save the Banks? Treasury Secretary Geithner discloses revamped government plans -- or lack thereof.
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 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 March 17, 2011 Housel & Moscovitz	Bailouts: The Final Word We should be doing everything we can now to prevent the possibility of ever having to have another TARP program.
The Motley Fool June 19, 2009 Morgan Housel	Where Did All the Bailout Money Go? Now that several banks have repaid taxpayers about $70 billion of the $700 billion bank bailout know as TARP, a common question is: "Great, now where's the other $630 billion?" The answer isn't as clear-cut as many may assume.
CFO January 1, 2009 Scott Leibs	The Year That Was A look back at the lows and ultra-lows of an all-too-historic year.
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 10, 2009 Anand Chokkavelu	The Market Meltdown: A Year Later Are we better off today?
The Motley Fool November 7, 2008 Morgan Housel	Wells Fargo Doubles Down Wells Fargo raises $11 billion in fresh equity by issuing common stock, down from the $20 billion it planned on raising to help usher in its pending of acquisition of Wachovia.
The Motley Fool 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 9, 2007 Seth Jayson	Bernanke's Plan to Pick Your Pocket Federal Reserve Chief Ben Bernanke promotes an idea that would have taxpayers bail out the jumbo mortgage market.
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 2, 2008 Chokkavelu & Richards	Everything You Want to Know About the $700 Billion Plan All your "bailout" coverage in one place with a recap of the events that have crippled our financial and credit markets and forced the government's hand.
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.
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 October 30, 2009 Morgan "Foreclosed" Housel	World's Scariest Stocks: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac still give off the impression of being capitalistic, shareholder-owned companies. There's not.
The Motley Fool November 26, 2008 Alex Dumortier	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 October 9, 2008	Pulling Out the Stops The government has steadily broadened its role to safeguard the economy from the credit crisis. Here are some important milestones.
The Motley Fool September 29, 2008 Morgan Housel	Fool Poll: Do You Agree With the House's Vote? Weighing in on today's historic moves.
The Motley Fool October 13, 2008 Morgan Housel	Dissecting McCain's Bailout Plan A little "straight talk" on the candidate's mortgage proposal.
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.
The Motley Fool September 2, 2009 Morgan Housel	The Air Comes out of Financial Stocks Geez ... it was about time.
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 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 December 8, 2010 Morgan Housel	Citigroup Gets the Government Out of Its Hair One step closer to freedom.
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?
The Motley Fool February 5, 2009 Morgan Housel	Vegas Proves Reckless for Wells Fargo Wells Fargo abruptly canceled an employee gathering in Las Vegas earlier this week after various media outlets and politicians stomped their feet in objection.
The Motley Fool March 23, 2009 Morgan Housel	Pros and Cons of the New Bank Plan After a long wait, the details of Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's new plan to rid banks of toxic assets actually aren't half bad. Read on for the details.
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 September 9, 2008 Morgan Housel	How Did Freddie and Fannie Fall? In a word: ignorance.
The Motley Fool November 11, 2008 Alex Dumortier	Fannie, Freddie: "Keep the House!" Are taxpayers subsidizing deadbeat homeowners?
The Motley Fool November 24, 2008 Morgan Housel	Citigroup Comes Back for Seconds Barely more than a month after receiving a $25 billion injection from the Treasury, a one-week swoon in its stock price sent Citi limping back to the Treasury, hat in hand, for second helpings.
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 October 22, 2008 Morgan Housel	Another Stimulus Package? Say It Ain't So. Just months after millions of checks made their way into mailboxes, there's talk of yet another stimulus package.
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 October 9, 2008 Morgan Housel	AIG's Second Bailout $85 billion here, $37.8 billion there ... but who's counting?
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 January 10, 2011 Ilan Moscovitz	Did Wall Street Just Pull Another Coup? Bank of America's big settlement.
The Motley Fool January 22, 2009 Morgan Housel	Was Bank of America Forced to Buy Merrill? Two key questions that investors want to know the answers to are when those seemingly "unexpected" Merrill losses came to light, and why the deal was still consummated after they were discovered.
The Motley Fool September 22, 2008 Morgan Housel	The Death of Wall Street Wall Street as it's been known for decades got a dramatic makeover this weekend as the remaining independent investment banks -- Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley -- gained approval from the Federal Reserve to be recognized as bank holding companies.