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Well, That Didn't Work SEC isn't letting the failure of its original short-selling ban stop it from extending it.   |
The Motley Fool
March 30, 2010
Morgan Housel |
For Banks, It's Been 800 Days of Christmas A short list of little-known goodies. |
The Motley Fool
August 22, 2008
Morgan Housel |
A Stealth Lehman Bailout? Was the Fed's reported intervention a taste of things to come? |
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. |
InternetNews
October 3, 2008
Paul Shread |
Bailout Bill Passes -- Now The Hard Part Begins Will the government's massive financial rescue plan work? The answer for technology companies and their investors won't be academic. |
The Motley Fool
June 4, 2010
Dan Caplinger |
How Short-Selling Can Save Your Portfolio This series looks at the details of how to bet against the market. Is short-selling for you? |
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
November 21, 2008
Rich Duprey |
Hedge Funds Ask: Where's the Love? It's been a long, strange trip since the hedge fund industry's summer-of-love confab. |
The Motley Fool
September 10, 2009
Anand Chokkavelu |
The Market Meltdown: A Year Later Are we better off today? |
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 23, 2008
Rich Duprey |
The Short-Sale Ban Is a Fiction The SEC's ban fails to address the real causes of the financial markets' decline. |
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. |
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 15, 2009
Morgan Housel |
What If Citigroup Had Bought Wachovia? Around this time last year, Citigroup struck a deal to buy Wachovia, a bank that surely would have failed without being bought. What would have happened if they did? |
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 25, 2008
Dan Caplinger |
Watch Out for Broken ETFs Government action sometimes has unintended consequences. |
The Motley Fool
September 22, 2008
Alex Dumortier |
The Truth About Naked Shorts There's been a lot of information and misinformation about short selling recently. Read on to bring yourself up to speed and bust some myths along the way. |
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
January 22, 2010
Morgan Housel |
Will This Fix Our Financial System? Will yesterday's proposed overhauls -- touted by some as a return to the Glass-Steagall days -- sufficiently stomp on sin and folly? |
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
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 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 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
December 31, 2008
Katrina Chan |
Reviewing 2008, Predicting 2009 The Fool looks back at the year that was, and ahead to the year to be. |
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 9, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Fool Awards: The Biggest Surprise of the Year We narrowed the biggest events of the year down to these five shockers. Sadly, none of them were good surprises. |
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
August 10, 2007
Matt Koppenheffer |
Welcome to the Hedge Fund Maelstrom Who will get sucked down next? As the volatility in the hedge fund market increases, more hedge funds are claiming big losses on the year. Some have taken bad enough losses to discuss closing out funds. |
InternetNews
September 19, 2008
Paul Shread |
Investors Cheer Financial Rescue Plan Investors responded enthusiastically Friday to the federal government's massive financial rescue plan, but the long-term process of sorting winners and losers is just beginning. |
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. |
InternetNews
September 10, 2008
Paul Shread |
RIM Paces Tech Advance Research in Motion led tech stocks higher on Wednesday even as fears of more financial failures weighed on the rest of the market. |
The Motley Fool
March 17, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Bear Stearns: 1 Year Later One year ago today, markets learned that Bear Stearns had gone kaboom, agreeing to be sold to JPMorgan Chase. What have we learned since then? |
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. |
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
September 17, 2008
Dan Caplinger |
You're Holding the Bag on Financials It's too early to tell just how big the taxpayer bill for the various bailouts, bank failures, and bankruptcies might be. But one thing is for sure: Mutual fund shareholders have already taken a big hit. |
The Motley Fool
November 16, 2007
Seth Jayson |
Fannie Flunks Again A suspicious looking accounting change may cause everyone to pay for Fannie Mae's bad behavior, if it leads to a green light for the housing bailout plan proposed by Fed Chair Ben Bernanke. |
InternetNews
October 9, 2008
Paul Shread |
Big Blue Can't Stop Stock Freefall Even better than expected results from IBM couldn't stop the global stock market panic on Thursday. |
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
September 17, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Morgan Stanley Dazzles, Sort Of A good quarter, sure, but I'm interested on where the bank can go from here. |
The Motley Fool
August 6, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Big Day for Bad Stocks As the Dow Jones fell 40 points yesterday, some of the market's worst companies -- financial stocks either majority owned by the government or still drowning in losses -- scored utterly insane gains. |
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
May 7, 2008
Tom Hutchinson |
Amid Losses, Fannie Mae Takes on More Risk A deteriorating balance sheet, combined with dramatically increased risk exposure, could spell disaster for Fannie Mae. |
The Motley Fool
September 30, 2008
Morgan Housel |
What Part of the Bailout Plan Did You Miss? Picking apart the new plan. |
The Motley Fool
December 10, 2008
Morgan Housel |
5 Stocks to Avoid in 2009 There's value in today's market, but you won't find it in these five stocks. Read on to see which stocks to avoid right now. |
The Motley Fool
September 14, 2011
Travis Hoium |
Don't Be Scared Out of Your Shorts About Shorting Shorting stocks can be intimidating for beginning investors. But this simple strategy could help it find a place in your portfolio. |
The Motley Fool
September 22, 2008
Chuck Saletta |
What This Bailout Means to You Amid the initial euphoria of the government's bailout plan we seem to be overlooking the costs and consequences of the proposals that will likely be rammed down our throats. |
The Motley Fool
March 20, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Morgan Stanley's Traders Score Big Morgan Stanley became the latest of the major investment banks to report better-than-expected earnings this week, sweetening some of the market's viciously sour mood. |
The Motley Fool
February 25, 2011
Selena Maranjian |
How to Profit From Losses Offset your taxable gains and wipe out lots of taxes. |
The Motley Fool
September 15, 2008
Chokkavelu & Richards |
The Biggest Financial Story of the Past 50 Years This weekend's news is bigger than the dot-com bust and bigger than Black Monday in 1987. Let's process this weekend's wild Wall Street news. |
The Motley Fool
December 8, 2008
Rich Duprey |
No Equality in Bailout Automakers will never get the sweetheart deal that was given to Wall Street. |
