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The Motley Fool
November 7, 2008
Mac Greer |
Fool Video: Obama's Pick for Treasury Secretary Who should President-elect Obama pick as Treasury Secretary? Should JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon get the nod? Should Obama stick with current Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson? This video discusses this question.   |
The Motley Fool
November 7, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Buffett, Google, and Friends Lend Obama a Hand A first look at Obama's economic team, whose notable members include Warren Buffett and Google CEO Eric Schmidt. |
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. |
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
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 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 17, 2008
Morgan Housel |
The Fall of AIG Why did the Fed ultimately decide to bail out AIG? |
The Motley Fool
February 10, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Will This Plan Save the Banks? Treasury Secretary Geithner discloses revamped government plans -- or lack thereof. |
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
July 22, 2008
Alex Dumortier |
Conspiracy Watch: Goldman Spreads Its Tentacles Goldman Sachs' top financial institutions banker will take a temporary leave to advise Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson on the banking crisis. |
The Motley Fool
April 14, 2010
Matt Koppenheffer |
Geithner Just Doesn't Get It Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner weighs in on the financial reform package. |
The Motley Fool
June 17, 2009
Matt Koppenheffer |
Will Obama's Plan Lead to Financial Failure? Only time will tell if Obama's plan will lead to a better system or just a bureaucratic mess. |
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
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
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
May 6, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Bank of America's Big, Fat, Gaping Hole Already widely expected to be short on capital, the hole blown in the side of B of A's balance sheet now appears bigger than many expected. |
The Motley Fool
September 22, 2008
Anand Chokkavelu |
Fool Poll: The Biggest Financial Shock of the Week Last weeks financial stories were amazing. Crazy rumors trumped by crazier reality. Which one of these made you gasp the loudest? |
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
February 16, 2010
Morgan Housel |
5 Articles You've Got to Read Random brilliance from around the net: Interview with Larry Summers... Companies' addiction to the calendar... Paul Volcker tells it how it is... Hank Paulson has a terrible memory... Presented without comment... |
The Motley Fool
August 25, 2009
Alex Dumortier |
Bernanke Is Sentenced to 4 More Years President Obama announced his nomination of "Helicopter" Ben Bernanke to a second term as chairman of the Fed. Bernanke is game -- but is he the right choice? |
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
February 11, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Obama Endorses JPMorgan If the president found it appropriate to point out Jamie Dimon's success by name, why not address individual failures in an equally specific fashion? |
The Motley Fool
September 10, 2009
Anand Chokkavelu |
The Market Meltdown: A Year Later Are we better off today? |
The Motley Fool
September 22, 2008
Alyce Lomax |
Fool Blog: Paulson's Mother of All Boondoggles Congressional Democrats are trying to insert some limits on executive compensation, among other things, into the massive bailout package. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson doesn't like the idea. |
The Motley Fool
January 11, 2008
Matt Koppenheffer |
A Golden Voice Cries Out: "Recession!" Goldman Sachs joins the chorus of bears expecting a recession in 2008. |
The Motley Fool
October 30, 2009
Matt Koppenheffer |
World's Scariest Stocks: Goldman Sachs Goldman Sachs may be incredibly profitable, but its business sends shivers down spines. |
The Motley Fool
September 12, 2008
Alex Dumortier |
Who Will Buy Lehman? The investment bank's days of independence are numbered. |
The Motley Fool
October 17, 2011
Morgan Housel |
Shock and Awe Is Back in Banking Poof, confidence is gone. The entire market has sold off over the past few months, but no sector has been hit as hard as banks. |
The Motley Fool
February 10, 2010
Morgan Housel |
5 Articles You've Got to Read Random brilliance from around the Net: Get ready for a double-dip recession... Interview with David Wessel... How Visa, Using Card Fees, Dominates a Market... In Praise of Mammoth Deficits... Paulson Tells Buffett Banks to Repay 'Every Penny'... |
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
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. |
BusinessWeek
December 10, 2009 |
Tim Geithner Is Starting to See Daylight Bloomberg TV's Al Hunt talks to the Treasury Secretary about TARP. |
The Motley Fool
March 23, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Pros and Cons of the New Bank Plan After a long wait, the details of Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's new plan to rid banks of toxic assets actually aren't half bad. Read on for the details. |
The Motley Fool
March 31, 2009
Morgan Housel |
How Banks Can Exploit Geithner's Plan If the goal is to recapitalize banks in an efficient manner, there are other, more sensible ways to do it than Geithner's plan. Giving banks the ability to write their own ticket isn't one of them. |
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
March 27, 2009
Matt Koppenheffer |
Does Anybody Have Any Idea What's Going On? The government is taking bold action, but do we really know what needs to be fixed? |
The Motley Fool
March 16, 2009
Morgan Housel |
AIG's Bonuses Are an Absolute Joke AIG's $450 million in bonuses is going to members of the financial products division that's almost solely responsible for Big A's demise. |
The Motley Fool
March 18, 2008
Morgan Housel |
What Can JPMorgan Do With Bear Stearns? If JPMorgan can pull Bear back to even a fraction of its former self, the acquisition will go down in history as one of the most lucrative deals ever made. |
BusinessWeek
December 1, 2010
Rich Miller |
Bernanke and Geithner Fight Back How the Federal Reserve chairman and Treasury Secretary are battling to defend the Fed's latest moves -- and preserve its independence. |
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. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
June 12, 2006
Michael Mandel |
Mr. Risk Goes To Washington Hank Paulson's profound understanding of risk and reward makes him the perfect pick for the Treasury. |
The Motley Fool
September 24, 2008
Mac Greer |
Fool Video: Buffett Buys. Should You? Warren Buffett says that Berkshire Hathaway will invest at least $5 billion in Goldman Sachs. What does Buffett's latest move mean for investors? |
The Motley Fool
March 4, 2008
Matt Koppenheffer |
Is Goldman Sachs Next in Line for Losses? It looked like it had avoided major impact from the credit crisis. That may change soon. |
BusinessWeek
October 8, 2009
Mara Der Hovanesian |
Jamie Dimon: Lucky or Good? How the JPMorgan Chase CEO weathered the global financial maelstrom and emerged almost unscathed. |
The Motley Fool
January 21, 2011
Rich Smith |
Quick! Everybody Out of the Pool! AIG is going public, and its stock is going down. |
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
November 24, 2010
Andrew Bond |
Congratulations, but No Need for the Victory Dance, Mr. Buffett Most Americans have not been as fortunate as Warren Buffett. I will argue that the bailouts have benefitted Warren Buffett much more than the majority of Americans, and that thanking the government is like thanking the arsonist who burned down your house for cleaning up the mess. |
The Motley Fool
March 2, 2009
Morgan Housel |
What's Next? Dow 5,000? It might not be far off. But as the markets keep falling, the selling is getting more and more rational. |
The Motley Fool
March 18, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Bernanke Swarms In I just worry he won't be able to swarm out as quickly. |
