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The Motley Fool November 26, 2008 Christopher Barker |
$3.9 Trillion Was a Drop in the Bucket Keeping a tally of total outlays puts the unfathomable scale of the crisis in context. |
The Motley Fool February 19, 2009 Christopher Barker |
$8.6 Trillion Was a Drop in the Bucket Keeping a tally of total potential outlays puts the scale of the crisis in context. |
The Motley Fool March 24, 2009 Christopher Barker |
$10.2 Trillion? A Mere Drop in the Bucket The tally zooms out to include monies under serious consideration for future outlays. |
The Motley Fool March 18, 2008 William Trent |
What Can the Fed Do? The Federal Reserve did not "bail out" Bear Stearns. Read on to learn more about what the Fed can, and cannot, do. |
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. |
The Motley Fool March 14, 2008 Christopher Barker |
Quick Take: Stop the Presses, Ben! The Federal Reserve surprised equity markets by launching a new weapon against the mortgage meltdown and the resulting credit crisis, but the dollar suffers. |
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. |
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 September 17, 2008 Morgan Housel |
The Fall of AIG Why did the Fed ultimately decide to bail out AIG? |
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 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 Jeffrey Rogers Hummel |
The Fed's Binge How the Federal Reserve engineered the most dramatic peacetime experiment in monetary and fiscal stimulus in U.S. history without anyone noticing |
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 August 14, 2008 Morgan Housel |
30-Second Overview: JPMorgan Chase A quick look at a banking behemoth that has remained largely unscathed throughout the banking fiasco. |
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 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 March 30, 2010 Morgan Housel |
For Banks, It's Been 800 Days of Christmas A short list of little-known goodies. |
Finance & Development September 2010 Ashok Vir Bhatia |
After the Supernova Crisis management lessons from the IMF's assessment of the U.S. financial system. |
The Motley Fool April 12, 2010 John Rosevear |
A New Kind of Credit Crisis What happens to the recovery if interest rates go up? |
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 April 7, 2010 William D. Cohan |
The End of Wall Street? The sad truth is that Wall Street is much the same as it was before; it's Main Street that may never be the same again. |
The Motley Fool September 15, 2008 Andrew Sullivan |
Why Lehman's Failure Is the Best Outcome As painful as it is, as painful as it will be, the fact that both the government and the financial industry let Lehman fail is ultimately a sign of confidence in our financial markets. |
The Motley Fool September 19, 2008 Morgan Housel |
The Mother of All Mother of All Bailouts In the coming hours and days, the Treasury and Federal Reserve are expected to introduce a sweeping bailout plan designed to finally pound a nail in the credit-crisis coffin for good. |
The Motley Fool May 3, 2010 Dan Caplinger |
This Ticking Time Bomb Will Cost Trillions We're getting too used to low interest rates. |
BusinessWeek December 30, 2009 Mark Gilbert |
Why the Fed's Next Act Could Be Its Hardest U.S. financial policymakers have managed to ease the recession with extraordinarily aggressive actions. But crafting a return to normalcy will be the real test. |
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. |
Registered Rep. July 8, 2008 Kristen French |
Post Bear, Regulatory Reform May Squeeze Brokerage Margins Could increased regulation of the brokerage industry in the wake of the subprime crisis and Bear Stearns debacle tighten the screws on brokerage business revenues and margins? |
The Motley Fool January 28, 2011 Morgan Housel |
Financial Crisis: The Greatest Hits The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission's report, two years in the making, is a 623-page tome of everything you could ever want to know about the financial crisis. |
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. |
U.S. Banker February 2009 Joseph Rosta |
Credit Markets Cooler But By No Means Frozen The relative robustness of the credit market can be seen in both the business and consumer sectors. |
The Motley Fool March 14, 2008 Morgan Housel |
Bear Stearns Hits the Panic Button Investment bank Bear Stearns liquidity woes prove to be true; the bank announces that it will receive short-term financing from the Federal Reserve and rival JPMorgan Chase. |
The Motley Fool May 29, 2009 Ivan Martchev |
Forget About Inflation in 2009 The difference between money and credit is the key to understanding inflation. |
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? |
The Motley Fool April 23, 2009 Richard Gibbons |
Stocks That Will Benefit From This Disaster The companies that helped cause the current crisis may end up being the biggest beneficiaries. |
The Motley Fool January 14, 2010 Alex Dumortier |
The Riskiest, Most Profitable Bank of All While the Fed won't suffer the same fate as Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers or Northern Rock, a run on the dollar (or even just an orderly decline) could turn out to be the direct equivalent of a run on the (central) bank. |
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 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. |
BusinessWeek June 11, 2009 James Cooper |
Business Outlook: Signs of Progress on the Road to Recovery Improved financial conditions are laying the groundwork for a turnaround as investors' appetite for risk increases. Still, a second-half stumble could halt the momentum. |
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 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 April 11, 2008 Chuck Saletta |
The Next Unsustainable Asset Bubble As long as the first response to any financial stress is a quick infusion of cheap money, the formation of the next bubble is a virtual certainty. |
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 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 April 2011 Barbara A. Rehm |
Excess of Reserves, Shortage of Facts The Fed alone - not actions by banks - dictates how large the reserve number is. And it is the Fed s expansion of its balance sheet that has ballooned reserve levels at banks. |
The Motley Fool April 14, 2008 Morgan Housel |
How Lehman Played Musical Chairs With Its Loans Lehman Brothers sheds light on new Fed lending facilities. Will it work? |
BusinessWeek September 3, 2007 Peter Coy |
It's Out Of Bernanke's Reach There's little the Fed can do about the information gap behind investors' panic. |
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 March 17, 2008 Dan Caplinger |
Why Bernanke Is Ignoring You Rate cuts aren't finding their way to cash-strapped consumers. |
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 October 28, 2011 Morgan Housel |
Flashback: What if the U.S. Government Paid Off Its Debt? A crazy question serious people used to ask. |