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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.
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The Motley Fool March 25, 2009 Morgan Housel	4 Reasons Geithner's Plan Won't Work Misunderstandings and misconceptions spell trouble.
The Motley Fool April 13, 2009 Mike Pienciak	Treasury Plan Sounds Cute, but Will It Work? Don't rush to buy bank stocks on the hope that the Treasury's latest plan to remove toxic assets from bank balance sheets, the Public Private Investment Program, or PPIP, will succeed.
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 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 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 February 9, 2009 Morgan Housel	We're From the Government, and We're Here to Help This week could bring the most government intervention into the economy we've ever seen. Here's what to look for.
The Motley Fool March 17, 2009 Morgan Housel	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 June 2, 2009 Morgan Housel	Bailouts on Hold Part of the Public-Private Investor Partnership -- one of several government-backed bailouts designed to right the banking industry -- could be on hold just weeks after it was announced.
The Motley Fool February 13, 2009 Morgan Housel	Hurry Up and Nationalize the Banks Now that last fall's all-out panic has subsided, we need a long-term solution to getting our largest banks back on track.
The Motley Fool February 25, 2010 Morgan Housel	Warren Buffett's Bid to Save the Economy -- and How It Failed In late 2008, Warren Buffett drafted a plan to save the financial system. He sent the proposal to the U.S. Treasury. Within months, the Treasury implemented the plan almost exactly as Buffett proposed. It's failed miserably since then.
The Motley Fool July 15, 2009 Morgan Housel	Bank of America vs. Taxpayers Taxpayers offered their help. Now Bank of America doesn't want to pay up.
The Motley Fool October 2, 2009 Morgan Housel	The Little Bailout That Couldn't Six months later, PPIP is still a pipsqueak.
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.
The Motley Fool May 26, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer	Banks Are Getting a Great Deal at Our Expense! The Treasury may be giving TARP recipients a sweet deal that will keep money out of taxpayers' pockets.
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 April 22, 2009 Morgan Housel	Citigroup's Wishful Thinking Paying back the TARP might be harder for some banks than you think.
The Motley Fool April 13, 2009 Morgan Housel	It's Payback Time for Goldman Sachs Getting rid of TARP funds could be a turning point for Goldman Sachs -- a TARP-free Goldman would be one of the most powerful Goldmans you've ever seen.
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 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 November 21, 2008 Morgan Housel	Tim Geithner, This Mess Is Yours What do you think about the new treasury pick?
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?
The Motley Fool April 21, 2009 Morgan Housel	Invest in the Bailout! Nasdaq OMX Group has created an index that tracks every U.S.-listed institution that has received more than $1 billion in bailout funds, called the Government Relief Index.
The Motley Fool February 12, 2009 Alex Dumortier	The Government's "Bad Bank" Plan Will Fail The problem isn't the bad assets.
The Motley Fool March 30, 2009 Tim Beyers	Banks Are Killing the Next Big Thing Commercial lending is well below historic norms. Just how creditworthy does a business have to be nowadays?
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 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 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 April 13, 2009 Morgan Housel	Does This Mean Banks Are Out of the Woods? Is the worst for banks really behind us, or is this just another emotional outburst by investors who've swung from chaotic pessimism to blind optimism?
The Motley Fool September 15, 2009 Morgan Housel	What If Citigroup Had Bought Wachovia? Around this time last year, Citigroup struck a deal to buy Wachovia, a bank that surely would have failed without being bought. What would have happened if they did?
The Motley Fool April 14, 2009 Morgan Housel	It's Good to Be Goldman A monster quarter proves Goldman Sachs can still get it done. Quarterly earnings just destroyed analyst expectations by more than 100%.
The Motley Fool September 15, 2009 Morgan Housel	Citigroup Wants Taxpayers Out of Its Hair What's that mean for shareholders? Not much.
The Motley Fool May 28, 2010 Rich Smith	Dump This Bank! U.S. government sheds Citi shares by the billions, but in baby steps.
The Motley Fool April 27, 2009 Morgan Housel	Pick the Unlucky Bank The Treasury's stress test will show that at least one bank needs more capital. Who might it be?
Bank Systems & Technology March 26, 2009 Orla O'Sullivan	Geithner Calls for "New Rules" with Insurers, Hedge Funds to be Regulated Critics question government's 'power grab,' as Treasury Secretary says far more regulation needed.
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 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.
The Motley Fool December 3, 2009 Morgan Housel	What Scares Me About Regulation These people aren't idiots. They're people who either don't have the backbone to install needed change, or are influenced against doing so.
The Motley Fool January 2, 2009 Morgan Housel	Sizing Up Banking's New Giants Didn't we learn our lesson about letting banks become "too big to fail"? What's left of the banking industry after recent consolidations is becoming bigger and potentially more complex once again.
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.
Bank Systems & Technology March 24, 2009 Maria Bruno-Britz	Geithner Says 'World is Watching' as U.S. Crafts Economic Recovery Plans Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner says reestablishing the right balance between stability and efficiency in the economic system is the government's obligation.
The Motley Fool September 15, 2008 Brian Richards	Roundtable: Why You Should Care That Lehman Went Bust Lehman Brothers will soon be no more. Merrill Lynch is being acquired by Bank of America. And AIG is desperately trying to shore up its capital. These events are, without exaggeration, the biggest Wall Street headlines in a decade.
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 20, 2009 Morgan Housel	The Truth Behind Bank of America's Earnings Bank of America releases earnings that, at first glance, look too good to be true. To be frank, they are.
The Motley Fool October 14, 2008 Morgan Housel	Paulson Backs Up the Truck After weeks of uncertainty, banks get exactly what they need.
The Motley Fool February 27, 2009 Morgan Housel	Citigroup Unravels Partial nationalization of the struggling bank becomes reality, but it's not nearly enough to stop the bleeding. Here's why.
The Motley Fool September 30, 2009 Morgan Housel	Bank Buybacks Gone Bad Wall Street's biggest investors lost billions -- by buying back their own shares.
The Motley Fool February 12, 2009 Morgan Housel	Which Banks Might Fail the Stress Test? How does the Treasury -- who didn't see this massacre coming in the first place -- expect to accurately predict what sort of massacre lies ahead by giving banks a "stress test"?
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