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You Lie, Goldman Sachs Taxpayers' bailout of AIG may have saved Goldman's life. |
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The Next $350 Billion Hole Lehman goes out with a bang. |
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October 8, 2008
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Is This Buffett's Nightmare Scenario? The credit default swaps are coming. |
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November 17, 2011
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Are Bank Stocks Cheap? Beware of judging a book value by its cover. |
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July 2, 2010
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The Blame Game: Goldman vs. AIG Who was really at fault? |
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May 27, 2008
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The Next Shoe to Drop Billionaire investor George Soros speaks about the possibility of defaults on CDSs hangs like "a sword of Damocles that is bound to fall," and how this could be a financial calamity in the making. |
The Motley Fool
April 30, 2010
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Sucker Me Once, Shame on You ... When it comes to the financiers on Wall Street, our financial system will be safer if they spend more time financing and less time looking for the next sucker. |
The Motley Fool
March 27, 2009
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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
June 15, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Here's How Messed Up Our Financial System Is Is it time to heed Munger's advice and totally ban credit default swaps? |
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July 14, 2009
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Nothing's Changed in Banking The recent upending of the financial world seems to have yielded few results. |
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November 14, 2011
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Behind the Scenes of the Market: Derivatives and Risk How risk is calculated and the way derivatives are really traded. |
The Motley Fool
April 17, 2009
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Not So Fast, Citigroup The bank's latest brazen attempt at concocting profits out of thin air. |
The Motley Fool
June 8, 2010
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The End Game for Wall Street Finally, an end to government support for the risky derivatives called swaps. |
The Motley Fool
April 23, 2009
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Stocks That Will Benefit From This Disaster The companies that helped cause the current crisis may end up being the biggest beneficiaries. |
U.S. Banker
April 2009
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Trade Credit Default Swaps on an Exchange It's time for this vulnerable market to take its vaccine. |
The Motley Fool
October 28, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Wedding Bells for Goldman and Citigroup? The next step for the financial industry looks as though it'll be massive consolidation. |
The Motley Fool
September 16, 2008
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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
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Financial Meltdown: Day 2 Investors' worst fears came true, as insurance giant AIG had its debt downgraded, sending it frighteningly closer to the brink of bankruptcy. |
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Ghosts of Lessons Past Memories are short indeed, lasting little more than a decade if Citi's experience is any guide. The capital markets need tougher oversight from Washington, to save the markets from themselves -- and to save us from the market excesses that always seem to reoccur. |
BusinessWeek
April 1, 2010
Roben Farzad |
Goldman Sachs: Don't Blame Us When it comes to its role in the financial crisis, Goldman Sachs has a message for the world: Not guilty. Not one bit. |
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July 29, 2010
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ICE's Jeffrey Sprecher: The Sultan of Swaps Sprecher has found profit remodeling the credit default swap market. His close relationship with banks has critics worried that he hasn't made it safer. |
The Motley Fool
January 15, 2010
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What in the World Is Goldman Sachs Thinking? For good reasons or ill, this banker's opinions move markets. Even if you don't agree with Goldman, it's worth keeping an eye on what the firm is up to. |
The Motley Fool
October 21, 2009
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Better Buy: MGM or Citigroup? In a new Motley Fool series, we pit two stocks against each other on five criteria to determine the better buy. Today let's compare MGM and Citigroup. |
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January 17, 2012
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Why Wells Fargo Is Up but Citi Is Tanking Differing bank earnings. |
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July 22, 2009
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Are Casino Stocks Actually Cheap? Casino stocks have definitely fallen, but are they cheap enough to buy? |
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March 17, 2009
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Bear Stearns: 1 Year Later One year ago today, markets learned that Bear Stearns had gone kaboom, agreeing to be sold to JPMorgan Chase. What have we learned since then? |
The Motley Fool
October 13, 2008
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The Eggheads Blew It We had an economic down-cycle on the way, but the Wall Street eggheads helped turn downturn to collapse. A massive business in buying and selling financial risk was born. |
The Motley Fool
December 24, 2009
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How to Earn $7 Billion Betting on Bank Stocks Convinced that the financial system would avoid total failure, hedge fund manager David Tepper bought bank shares through February and March, when no one else wanted to own them. |
The Motley Fool
October 8, 2008
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Mohnish Pabrai on Short-Selling, Derivatives, and Gambling One investor's take on the recent derivative clown show. |
The Motley Fool
October 27, 2009
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These Banks Are Scarier Than Halloween Little, if anything, has changed in banking, and that's a good reason to be scared. |
The Motley Fool
September 11, 2009
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Lehman Brothers and the Age of Stupidity Next Tuesday, Sept. 15, marks one year since Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy protection. One year later, we ask: What's changed? |
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June 4, 2009
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How to Save MGM and Las Vegas Sands A prolonged boom period where debt was cheap encouraged the casino industry to gamble on huge expansion projects. Today, those projects have led MGM Mirage, Las Vegas Sands and the rest to toe the line between survival and bankruptcy. |
The Motley Fool
July 19, 2011
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Wynn Resorts Wins Big and Gives It Away A charitable contribution dents Wynn Resort's results. |
The Motley Fool
April 19, 2010
Russ Krull |
Citi's $5 Flirt Does Citigroup's bounce to $5 make it more attractive? |
BusinessWeek
May 13, 2009
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Failure: A Bankrupt Idea Why the bankruptcy process that sorted out the mess when companies failed no longer works. |
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March 2002
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Transfer That Risk! With more and more bankruptcies and defaults, many banks can protect themselves with credit derivatives. There are dangers in using them, but if used intelligently, they can be a boon to many banks... |
The Motley Fool
September 1, 2009
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This Is Why AIG Is Up? Really? AIG's riding a wave of general optimism and risk-hungry investors looking to earn back losses in a hurry. |
The Motley Fool
September 15, 2008
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Why Lehman's Bankruptcy Matters How will Lehman's bankruptcy affect more than just a handful of bankers and traders who work in the world's financial capitals? More importantly, how will it affect you? |
The Motley Fool
June 17, 2009
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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. |
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June 20, 2011
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Casinos Find Singapore Isn't Wide Open for Business Steve Wynn wants to open a casino in Singapore; he has a long wait ahead of him. |
The Motley Fool
October 15, 2009
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Poor, Poor Citigroup Who loves the beleaguered bank? Only Uncle Sam. |
The Motley Fool
October 6, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Goldman Hatred Is Out of Control Goldman Sachs could receive $1 billion, should troubled lender CIT file for bankruptcy. Meanwhile, taxpayers would lose 100% of the $2.3 billion invested from TARP last year. |
The Motley Fool
February 26, 2010
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Roundtable: The Best Bailed-Out Bet The best buy out of companies that have received government aid. |
BusinessWeek
August 5, 2009
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Old Banks, New Lending Tricks Lenders haven't sworn off risky financial products. They've come up with a slew of new ones. |
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 25, 2009
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5 Banksgiving Day Turkeys Some banking CEO's who contributed to bad financial behavior of the past year. |
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
September 15, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Black Sunday on Wall Street This weekend will go down as one of the most spectacular unravelings in financial history. |
The Motley Fool
November 21, 2008
Morgan Housel |
There's a Riot in the Citi Sell now, run far away, and ask questions later. |
