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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 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.
U.S. Banker December 2008	Hank's Group Think The Troubled Asset Relief Program was supposed to purchase toxic securities from banks to stabilize their finances. But in short order, given the difficulty valuing those assets, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and company switched gears and chose to take equity stakes in big banks.
The Motley Fool December 15, 2008 Chuck Saletta	Are Bernanke and Paulson Bankrupting America? No matter how pristine their intentions, the end results of their interventions are turning into ever more economic pain and suffering for ordinary Americans.
Bank Systems & Technology November 21, 2008 Orla O'Sullivan	TARP Can't Stanch Financial Crisis, Experts Say Experts agree that the U.S. government's $700 billion bank bailout program is insufficient to spur lending because banks still have far from an optimal balance of debts to assets.
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 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 October 16, 2007 Seth Jayson	More Housing Hanky-Panky Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson views the housing decline and crisis as the most significant current risk to our economy.
The Motley Fool October 20, 2008 Chuck Saletta	Paulson's Offer No Bank Could Refuse Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson sat the leaders of several of the biggest and most powerful banks in America together in a room and literally made them an offer they couldn't refuse. When life imitates "The Godfather," we'd all better watch out.
The Motley Fool April 27, 2009 Alyce Lomax	Con Games Don't Build Trust In its bailout fervor, has the government lost sight of logic and abandoned the crucial concept of letting businesses reap what they sow?
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.
The Motley Fool February 20, 2009 Alyce Lomax	We Just Got Mugged Again. And Again. We're all getting mugged by the TARP program, again and again -- and it all gets a little scarier with every passing day. Get the ice packs ready for your aching head and your bleeding wallet -- and those of your descendants.
The Motley Fool March 4, 2009 Kristin Graham	Bring Back Our Free Markets The government needs to let businesses fail so that we are left with businesses that will generate long-term productivity and positive returns for our economy as a whole.
BusinessWeek September 30, 2010 Rebecca Christie	TARP Didn't Bust the Bank The much-maligned bailout program made money on most Wall Street investments and cost less than expected.
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 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."
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 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.
The Motley Fool April 21, 2010 John Rosevear	General Motors Still Owes You GM's ability and willingness to pay its debt now could well be a sign that GM's financial picture, believed to be looking up after a $4.3 billion post-bankruptcy loss in 2009, is solidly on track. Or, it could also be a sign of something else.
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.
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 May 13, 2009 Morgan Housel	TARP's Next Victim: Small Banks Providing capital to banks that might simply feel left out of the party is tiptoeing dangerously close to socialized banking.
InternetNews September 17, 2008 Paul Shread	Stocks Plummet on AIG Rescue VMware and Nortel were two of the tech sector's biggest losers on a historic day for the stock market.
The Motley Fool December 7, 2007 Seth Jayson	Bush's Bailout Bait-and-Switch The good news: The plan doesn't interfere too much with the free markets. The bad news: The plan doesn't interfere too much with the free markets.
The Motley Fool October 30, 2008 Alyce Lomax	Fool Blog: Too [Blank] to Fail, Part II For entertainment purposes only, and not meant to comment on whether these particular businesses are particularly failure-ready, there's a lot to mock in these crazy times.
The Motley Fool November 30, 2007 Seth Jayson	Paulson's Plan to Punish the Public Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson's plan to protect homebuyers from their mistakes -- extending loan teaser rates for a few years -- will punish us all.
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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.
Reason January 2009 Tim Cavanaugh	Houses of Pain When did declining home prices become politically intolerable?
Reason February 2009 Jacob Sullum	The Reversals of Market Wisdom The TARP turnaround is not the only bewildering reversal of economic wisdom we've seen in recent months. Here are some of the more memorable ones.
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The Motley Fool September 23, 2008 David Lee Smith	Some Tough Questions on the Bailout With the bailout possibly nearing completion, big questions still remain.
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 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 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 December 30, 2008 Alyce Lomax	2008: The Year of Moral Hazard Rewarding massive failure imperils us all. Our economic freedom is seriously endangered by current policies that prop up failing, mistake-ridden companies and industries.
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 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 October 17, 2008 Alyce Lomax	Dirty Little Secrets of the Financial Crisis If, or when, the American consumer realizes how unsustainable their debt-fueled lifestyle has been, the economy will contract, and hard.
The Motley Fool August 20, 2008 Morgan Housel	Too Big to Fail, Too Big to Bail Forward-thinking solutions to the current fiscal crisis.
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.
BusinessWeek December 17, 2009 Peter Coy	Smile. The Economy Isn't in a Second Depression Don't get too angry over bailouts. That sort of rage could prevent a sustainable recovery.
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.
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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 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 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 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?