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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
September 22, 2008
Rich Duprey |
General Motors Playing Chicken General Motors has announced that it intends to draw down the remaining $3.5 billion on its revolving $4.5 billion credit line to boost its liquidity. |
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
August 27, 2008
Alyce Lomax |
Fool Blog: Uncle Sam, Please Let Something Fail! Someone, anyone, please acknowledge that we still operate under some semblance of capitalism -- let a company fail for a change. |
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 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
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, 2008
Rich Duprey |
Too Big to Fail? Ha! A number of iconic businesses have seemingly found a similar magical elixir causing them to expand to such a size that they can no longer fit through the doorway of bankruptcy. |
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 29, 2010
Russ Krull |
Betting on Bailouts Using the recent U.S. bailout track record as a guide for investing in Europe. |
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 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 4, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Fannie and Freddie: 1 Year Later A look at the first shots fired in the financial meltdown, and where we go from here. |
The Motley Fool
November 17, 2008
Rich Duprey |
Automakers in Danger of Getting What They Want The strings attached to a bailout may not be what the carmakers bargained for. |
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
September 17, 2008
David Lee Smith |
Have Detroit's Bailout Notions Been Quashed? Recent moves by the federal government may not be good news for Detroit automakers. |
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
March 20, 2009
Rich Duprey |
New Bailout Bolted Onto Detroit's Suppliers The government will shuttle $5 billion in bailout money to auto parts companies that supply Detroit's automakers, on the grounds that these companies have shipped parts to General Motors and Chrysler, but have not yet gotten payment. |
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
September 30, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Market Meltdown: What Happens From Here It's official: Chicken Little has been vindicated. |
The Motley Fool
August 22, 2008
David Lee Smith |
Should Taxpayers Cover Detroit's Tab? It seems that plans might already be afoot for the government to lend automakers about $25 billion at approximately one-third the rate they'd normally have to ante up. |
The Motley Fool
December 19, 2008
Rich Duprey |
Detroit Gets Its Leaky Life Raft The president approves a loan package, but automakers may still sink. |
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
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
August 6, 2008
Anand Chokkavelu |
Fool Blog: Government Bailout for GM and Ford? Bloomberg reports that a Michigan Congressman is seeking to speed up the implementation of a $25 billion loan program for the U.S. automakers. |
The Motley Fool
December 3, 2008
Chuck Saletta |
The Wholesale Destruction of the American Economy Alexis de Tocqueville was right. |
The Motley Fool
October 8, 2008
Rich Duprey |
Limits on CEO Pay Have No Bite The bailout bill's supposed limits on CEO pay are much ado about nothing. |
The Motley Fool
December 31, 2009
Matt Koppenheffer |
The Decade's 10 Biggest Bankruptcies Since 2000, we've witnessed some of the largest corporate failures in U.S. history. |
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
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. |
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
May 24, 2011
Alex Dumortier |
AIG Share Sale: Who Gains? Uncle Sam is selling 300 million shares of insurer AIG today, part of the 92% stake it inherited as a part of its $182 billion bailout, and the company is taking this opportunity to issue 100 million new shares. |
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
December 31, 2008 |
The 10 Biggest Stories of 2008 What Bear Stearns' fallout means for investors... The people responsible for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac... Why you should care that Lehman went bust... Black Sunday on Wall Street... AIG's failure is so much bigger than Enron's... etc. |
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
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 11, 2008
Alex Dumortier |
A Scorecard for the Fannie, Freddie Bailout As the dust settles on the first stage of the rescue of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, it's time to chalk up winners and losers. |
The Motley Fool
April 3, 2009
Alyce Lomax |
Can the White House Play Fair With the UAW? Let's hope so, lest we all go bailout broke. |
The Motley Fool
August 20, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Too Big to Fail, Too Big to Bail Forward-thinking solutions to the current fiscal crisis. |
Wall Street & Technology
October 28, 2008
Greg MacSweeney |
Deconstructing "Too Big to Fail" With increased regulation an almost foregone conclusion, the financial services industry will have to work to regain trust and credibility. |
The Motley Fool
August 8, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Financial Stocks on the Move There's been no shortage of carnage in the financial industry. Here are some of this week's worst-performing financial stocks and a few tidbits about what's pushing them around. |
The Motley Fool
May 1, 2009
Rich Duprey |
The Long and Short of the New Chrysler The promise of a quick, surgical bankruptcy may not come true. |
The Motley Fool
April 14, 2010
Morgan Housel |
Bailout Cost Plummets: Good News? It seems the bailouts taxpayers ponied up to save the financial system are going to cost a lot less than we thought. |
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
October 2, 2008
Rich Duprey |
Detroit Gets Its Cash Carmakers get their $25 billion handout. |
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
September 10, 2008
Alyce Lomax |
Fool Blog: Too [Blank] to Fail Are we on a slippery slope, now that the "too-big-to-fail" story seems to be in vogue? After Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, why not Lehman Brothers? Why not Detroit's Big Three? Why not the airline industry? |
The Motley Fool
November 10, 2008
Rich Duprey |
A New Assembly Line in Washington U.S. carmakers renew their case for loans. But should they get them? |
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
December 1, 2008
Rich Duprey |
Corporate Boards Are Broken Extreme measures are needed to get boards to do their jobs. |
