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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.
BusinessWeek October 14, 2010 Robert Schmidt	Brush Up Your Beltway-Speak Acronyms are everywhere in Washington. Here's a cheat-sheet to help decipher them.
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 September 25, 2007 Mike Kasprzyk	Quick Take: Goldman Sachs' Lending Hand The London Treasury seeks advice from Goldman Sachs for its struggling UK bank Northern Rock, reflecting confidence in the U.S. investment bank's uniquely strong brand and history of proven results.
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 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 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 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.
Wall Street & Technology November 18, 2008 Greg MacSweeney	Don't Leave Home Without ... Bank Status? The Federal Reserve's ill-conceived decision to provide bank's with anonymity makes the entire process less transparent and only further contributes to the industry's poor reputation and lack of investor confidence.
The Motley Fool May 27, 2009 Morgan Housel	Bad News for Big Banks How the new FDIC rules will impact megabanks.
The Motley Fool November 14, 2008 Alyce Lomax	I Think We Just Got Mugged Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's recent comments about his shifting strategy for tackling the financial crisis have made many people wonder whether they're being robbed blind.
The Motley Fool May 21, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer	Banks to Geithner: It's Payback Time Major banks are lining up to pay back TARP borrowings and keep the government from further mucking up their business.
The Motley Fool September 25, 2008 Andy Louis-Charles	A Goldman Opportunity The future of investment banking.
The Motley Fool May 1, 2009 Alex Dumortier	Goldman's Secret Handshake Raises Eyebrows Goldman sends bond investors a sign with an oddly-timed $2 billion bond issue. The signal wasn't difficult to decode, and it verges on a breach of Goldman's agreement with the government to keep stress test results under wraps until they are publicly disclosed.
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.
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 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 December 3, 2008 Morgan Housel	A First Glimpse at Goldman's Road to Recovery Goldman Sachs is considering launching an Internet-based bank, which it could use to raise deposits it needs now that it is a bank holding company.
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 September 16, 2008 Morgan Housel	Goldman Feels the Heat Though it wasn't a terrible quarter for Goldman Sachs, it's become apparent that banking is a terrible industry right now. And after a crazy week, some question even Goldman Sachs' future.
The Motley Fool November 13, 2008 Rich Duprey	Wall Street's Land of Make Believe Amex is the latest financial company to try to stretch the line between reality and fantasy.
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."
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 May 21, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer	Should Your Bank Deposits Be at Risk? Is the FDIC's guarantee of bank deposits a benefit to the system?
BusinessWeek October 7, 2010 Ian Katz	A New Council Looks for Risky Business A new council of regulators is scrutinizing financial firms to find those that should be subject to Fed oversight because they are high-risk.
The Motley Fool March 20, 2009 Alex Dumortier	GE's Pick-and-Roll on GE Capital's Earnings GE reaffirms its 2009 earnings estimate for GE Capital of $5 billion -- a figure that is widely considered to be inflated -- but GE's own presentation also shows that number is at significant risk.
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.
BusinessWeek February 4, 2010 David Henry	The Government's $56 billion Gift to Banks Citigroup and others may have paid back TARP -- but they're still benefiting from record low rates.
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 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.
The Motley Fool September 16, 2008 Alex Dumortier	Wall Street's $70 Billion Facade In the wake of Lehman Brothers' failure this weekend, 10 major banks, including the remaining investment banks, are creating a $70 billion fund that any one of the participants can borrow from in a crunch.
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 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 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 15, 2008 Morgan Housel	JPMorgan: The Last Great Megabank As the industry crumbles, JPMorgan powers ahead.
The Motley Fool June 17, 2010 Ilan Moscovitz & Morgan Housel	The Giant Revolving Door of Regulatory Hostage-Taking Washington reeks of Wall Street. Time to open the windows.
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 April 4, 2008 Morgan Housel	Dude, Where's My Leverage? The days when investment banks were free to employ huge amounts of leverage are almost certainly over and unlikely to come back any time soon.
The Motley Fool November 12, 2008 Alex Dumortier	Will Goldman Get a Do-Over? The firm needs long-term deposits to anchor its balance sheet. The trouble is, there are no obvious partners out there.
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 February 24, 2009 Anand Chokkavelu	Is It Time to Buy Banks? The banks will survive. They must. But -- and this is why temptation hasn't turned to action -- survival doesn't necessarily mean that shareholders will benefit.
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 March 24, 2009 Ivan Martchev	Has Bernanke Lost His Marbles? Looks like the Fed will run the printing press until we run out of trees.
The Motley Fool February 26, 2010 Anand Chokkavelu	Roundtable: The Best Bailed-Out Bet The best buy out of companies that have received government aid.
The Motley Fool June 9, 2009 Morgan Housel	Payback Time Has Come Ten of the largest banks to receive TARP funds -- the taxpayer money associated with last fall's $700 billion bank bailout -- have been approved to repay the Treasury in full, plus interest.
The Motley Fool August 27, 2007 S.J. Caplan	Investor 007's Bond Dossier Bond basics and beyond. Spying on rates: U.S. Treasury -- 2-year... 5-year... Clues to the market... Detecting developments... Hot tip: Over the last two weeks, the commercial-paper market has become the latest casualty...
U.S. Banker July 2009 Glen Fest	Bidder Medicine While its house was burning down, BankUnited of Coral Gables, Fla., was on a deposit-gathering spree.
Bank Director 1st Quarter 2009 L. William Seidman	It Will Get Better--But Not Soon The good news is that oil is under $50 a barrel. The bad news is the recession is going to get worse before it gets better.
The Motley Fool December 4, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer	Stick a Fork in Free Market Banking Let's stop fooling ourselves when talking about potential solutions. The U.S. banking system is not a free market system. Efforts to free up banks to do whatever they like have only allowed insiders to profit while the rest of the country bears the risks.