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The Motley Fool November 18, 2008 Morgan Housel	Sharks Circle the Bailout Fund Egad! The city of San Jose wants a cut. We have to draw the line.
The Motley Fool October 30, 2008 David Lee Smith	Everyone's Jumping Into the Bailout Line What started off as aid to the banks now appears to be accepting all comers.
The Motley Fool November 11, 2008 Morgan Housel	American Express Isn't Taking Any Chances American Express has become the latest victim of a credit market thrown completely upside down in the past few months.
The Motley Fool February 19, 2009 Rich Duprey	Detroit's Bailout Tab Keeps on Growing With the auto industry's bailout plans based on unreasonable assumptions and rosy predictions, it seems fated for sure-fire failure. But if any of these proposals pass muster, it is the taxpayer who will be doomed.
The Motley Fool December 12, 2008 Rich Duprey	The Banks Beat You to It, Detroit Tough love from Uncle Sam may help automakers in the long run.
The Motley Fool October 30, 2008 Rich Duprey	An Auto Merger Car Wreck Proposals to unite GM and Chrysler are overpriced flights of fancy.
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 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 October 17, 2008 Buck Hartzell	An Investor's Finest Hour This market presents some wonderful opportunities for patient investors who have an investing timeframe that's measured in years, not days.
The Motley Fool November 19, 2008 Liz Peek	What's So Great About Being a Bank? Getting classified as a "bank" gives companies more access to our money.
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 December 10, 2008 Rich Duprey	Detroit's Dance With the Devil The bailout of the auto industry has ridden some rough road lately, and although a vote is possible in the House today, it's the nuts and bolts that may end up proving its undoing.
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, 2008	The Motley Fool Crisis Survival Kit With a calm head and a smart game plan, each of us can get through the current crisis. Read on for advice.
The Motley Fool September 25, 2008 Alyce Lomax	Bailout: The Sucker Punch Regardless of outcome, we need to ask some serious questions.
The Motley Fool August 31, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer	The Best Investor Around: the U.S. Government? The government is reaping profits on its banking investments. But hold the confetti.
The Motley Fool January 5, 2009 Rich Duprey	GMAC Steers Taxpayers Wrong Uncle Sam has given them an inch, what's to prevent GM from taking a mile?
The Motley Fool July 25, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	American Express Charges Forward Can consumer spending keep fueling double-digit growth? Investors, there is value here.
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The Motley Fool October 20, 2008 Morgan Housel	Why the Bailout Makes Sense No one said that the bailout would solve anything. They did say it would prevent the financial crisis from imploding beyond recovery. From that standpoint, it's been a raging success.
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The Motley Fool January 7, 2009 Morgan Housel	4 Things Obama Can Do to Help the Economy The new administration is already up to their ears in suggestions, but here are four more changes and ideas that should be considered to bolster the economy for the long term.
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The Motley Fool December 3, 2008 Rich Duprey	Just Give Them the Money, Already Congress is putting up a front over handing the carmakers a bailout. Just get it over with.
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 January 16, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer	Is Moral Hazard Still a Bogeyman? Should we still fear moral hazard? The Philly Fed president thinks so.
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 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 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.
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The Motley Fool April 5, 2011 Morgan Housel	A History of U.S. Government Bailouts Truth is, the U.S. has been giving bailouts for decades. While the 2008 bailouts were the largest, they were by no means the first time Uncle Sam has come to the rescue of failing businesses. Here's a brief history of intervention.
The Motley Fool November 10, 2008 Tim Hanson	Satellite Radio: Too Big to Fail Could this be the next industry to get help from the federal government?
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 December 4, 2008 Kris Eddy	How I Learned to Love the Bailout A tongue-in-cheek look at how thinking outside the box may provide more ways for more companies to profit from the bailout.
HBS Working Knowledge November 18, 2010	GM's IPO: Back to the Future General Motors reaches a milestone this week as it presents an initial public offering. Harvard Business School faculty discuss issues facing the automaker's revival.
The Motley Fool October 9, 2008 Morgan Housel	AIG's Second Bailout $85 billion here, $37.8 billion there ... but who's counting?
The Motley Fool May 29, 2009 Rich Duprey	General Motors' Word Not Its Bond If there's one takeaway from the sad demise of GM, it's a re-evaluation of how bondholder rights are treated. Investors are going to think long and hard about whether corporate bonds offer the protection they're seeking if there's no security in being a "secured bondholder."
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 December 8, 2008 Rich Duprey	No Equality in Bailout Automakers will never get the sweetheart deal that was given to Wall Street.
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The Motley Fool December 16, 2008 Dave Mock	A Big Upgrade for AIG While it may be hard to believe, more top-performing CAPS members are turning bullish on American International Group these days, exhibiting optimism for the future.
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BusinessWeek August 5, 2010 Green & Welch	Did Obama Save Detroit? The President makes the case that the $59 billion bailout saved the industry. Republicans and many voters say the rescue was misguided.
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