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The Motley Fool November 12, 2008 Morgan Housel	China's Stimulus vs. America's Bailout Last summer, China was looking for ways to put the brakes on its searing economy. Now its government is spending a fortune to speed things up.
The Motley Fool February 23, 2009 Morgan Housel	The Long, Slow, Death of Citigroup What the latest attempt to save the beleaguered bank means for the company, the market, and you.
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 January 12, 2012 Morgan Housel	Robert Shiller on the Need for More Stimulus In an exclusive recent interview, I asked Yale economist Robert Shiller about recessions, austerity, and stimulus.
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 June 25, 2010 Morgan Housel	Whom to Blame for the National Debt It's all about the revenue.
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 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 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 December 8, 2008 Rich Duprey	No Equality in Bailout Automakers will never get the sweetheart deal that was given to Wall Street.
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.
Reason May 2009 Veronique de Rugy	When Do Deficits Matter? While Democrats and Republicans switch sides regarding deficit spending, economists try to pin down a tipping point.
The Motley Fool January 28, 2009 Morgan Housel	Worst Stock for 2009: Citigroup Which 10 companies should you keep out of your portfolio? Find out in our special series on the Worst Stocks for 2009. Here, take a look at why Citigroup may not even be a stock next year.
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 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 July 15, 2009 Alyce Lomax	Fake Plastic Green Shoots While Obamanomics takes a hit, some still call for more stimulus.
The Motley Fool March 31, 2011 Morgan Housel	Geithner: Should He Stay or Should He Go? Geithner hasn't commented on whether he'd be willing to serve a second term as Treasury secretary. The question is whether he deserves one or not.
Reason June 2009 Veronique de Rugy	The Age of Debt Barack Obama's first budget promises "fiscal responsibility" but delivers the opposite.
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.
The Motley Fool August 26, 2009 Morgan Housel	Small Victories for Taxpayers It's hard to argue that we haven't come a long way since the days of last fall, when saying the TARP plan would cost taxpayers $700 billion drew so much attention. It wasn't true then, and it's undeniably false now.
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 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 June 14, 2010 Russ Krull	The Government: Worst Investor Ever? Here's a closer look at the U.S. Treasury's recent investments.
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The Motley Fool November 29, 2010 Russ Krull	Betting on Bailouts Using the recent U.S. bailout track record as a guide for investing in Europe.
IndustryWeek March 1, 2009 Thomas Duesterberg	The Competitive Edge -- An Exit Strategy for the Stimulus Plan We need to ensure that the government's intervention into the private sector is as brief as possible.
The Motley Fool January 20, 2010 Jennifer Schonberger	The Catalyst for the Market's Next Decade Political reverberations will affect the markets for years to come.
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BusinessWeek February 24, 2011 Charlie Rose	Charlie Rose Talks to Nassim Taleb The Black Swan's author saw that spiraling risk in financial markets could spark a global crisis. Now he's warning of the risk in delaying deficit cuts
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 October 22, 2009 Morgan Housel	Kiss the Housing Credit Goodbye It's looking more likely that the $8,000 first-time homebuyer credit set to expire next month will really, truly expire.
The Motley Fool December 7, 2009 Alyce Lomax	The Daily Walk of Shame: Keynesians Many Keynesian economists are softpedaling the idea that our gigantic -- and growing -- deficit and public debt are highly dangerous. Shame on them, and on anyone who believes there's anything sustainable about the faux economic "growth" we're now seeing.
The Motley Fool March 26, 2009 Alyce Lomax	Breaking Up With AIG One AIG executive's public resignation seems to ring a little hollow.
Reason January 2009 Lacoude & de Rugy	Better Than a Bailout Four steps policy makers could take to help financial markets
BusinessWeek June 11, 2009 Carol Matlack	The New Protectionism One country's bailout is another's industrial subsidy. Rising tension could lead to damaging trade wars.
The Motley Fool August 29, 2008 Rich Duprey	A Bailout by Any Other Name ... Despite the Big 3 automakers saying their request for a handout from the federal government isn't a bailout, what else can you call the $50 billion in loans they're requesting?
The Motley Fool September 30, 2008 Alyce Lomax	Fool Blog: 6 Thoughts on the Bailout Buzz Some pro-bailout defenses freak one Fool out.
The Motley Fool October 20, 2008 John Reeves	How to Fix Our Economy Here are three policy prescriptions that have been put forward by Paul Krugman, Nouriel Roubini, and other economists.
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The Motley Fool December 22, 2008 Morgan Housel	Why Obama's Scared of a Trillion-Dollar Stimulus Package Rather than come out swinging with a trillion-dollar stimulus that might push international confidence in the dollar to a tipping point, President-elect Obama keeps the plan at $775 billion.
The Motley Fool June 23, 2010 Ilan Moscovitz	The Weekly Walk of Shame: Wall Street Lobbyists and Your Money Wall Street has been spending an estimated $1.4 million per day lobbying to weaken rules that would limit the ability to imperil the economy, according to Elizabeth Warren, the Harvard professor charged with oversight of the TARP.program.
The Motley Fool February 9, 2010 Morgan Housel	Sick of the Budget Deficit? Read This What really sent us over the edge. For one, there was a good round of tax cuts enacted under President Bush. And two wars. You know the story. Moreover, the economy didn't grow as fast as expected.
Reason May 2009 Nick Gillespie	Will We Be Stimulated? Suspecting that there was more disagreement out there than the president was letting on, reason magazine asked 10 economists what they expect from the stimulus package. The results were not very optimistic.
The Motley Fool December 11, 2009 Morgan Housel	Bailouts Gone Astray Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner has extended the $700 billion bank bailout known as TARP for another ten months because, "the recovery of our financial system remains incomplete."
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