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The Motley Fool
December 1, 2008
Alyce Lomax |
Confidence ... or Con Game? When you think about it, trying to gain someone's confidence in order to grift them out of their hard-earned dollars really isn't an outlandish metaphor for our current situation.   |
The Motley Fool
February 20, 2009
Alyce Lomax |
We Just Got Mugged Again. And Again. We're all getting mugged by the TARP program, again and again -- and it all gets a little scarier with every passing day. Get the ice packs ready for your aching head and your bleeding wallet -- and those of your descendants. |
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
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
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 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. |
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
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
September 16, 2008
Morgan Housel |
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. |
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
November 29, 2010
Russ Krull |
Betting on Bailouts Using the recent U.S. bailout track record as a guide for investing in Europe. |
BusinessWeek
April 8, 2010
Mike Dorning |
Why the Obama Plan Is Working Polls say the economy is heading in the wrong direction. Markets say it's back on track. This time, the markets are right. |
The Motley Fool
November 18, 2008
Morgan Housel |
$700 Billion Bailout? Not So Fast Only $290 billion of the original $350 billion have been used so far, and Hank Paulson has said he's unlikely to use the remaining $410 billion, at least for the time being. |
The Motley Fool
December 22, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Why Obama's Scared of a Trillion-Dollar Stimulus Package Rather than come out swinging with a trillion-dollar stimulus that might push international confidence in the dollar to a tipping point, President-elect Obama keeps the plan at $775 billion. |
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
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. |
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
February 22, 2011
Morgan Housel |
Pardon Me, George Soros Clearing up misconceptions about TARP. |
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
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
November 10, 2010
Morgan Housel |
A Short History of Bank Failures Why the financial system is more vulnerable now than ever before. |
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 30, 2009
Matt Koppenheffer |
World's Scariest Stocks: Goldman Sachs Goldman Sachs may be incredibly profitable, but its business sends shivers down spines. |
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
December 8, 2010
Morgan Housel |
Citigroup Gets the Government Out of Its Hair One step closer to freedom. |
The Motley Fool
May 13, 2009
Morgan Housel |
TARP's Next Victim: Small Banks Providing capital to banks that might simply feel left out of the party is tiptoeing dangerously close to socialized banking. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
October 22, 2009
Maria Bartiromo |
Treasury's Geithner on the State of the Economy Maria Bartiromo talks to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on the current state of the economy. |
BusinessWeek
November 5, 2009
Maria Bartiromo |
The Enduring Anger of Hank Greenberg A conversation with former AIG CEO Hank Greenberg. |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2009
Sullum et al. |
Illegal. Illiberal. Ill-Fated.: Why Washington Shouldn't Run Detroit On March 30, 2009, the president of the United States told an anxious nation: "Let me be clear: The United States government has no interest in running G.M." If only he were telling the truth. |
The Motley Fool
September 22, 2009
Alyce Lomax |
CEO Pay and the Parasite Economy Uncle Sam bailed out a slew of financial firms under its Troubled Asset Relief Program a year ago -- but the CEOs of these corporate welfare cases haven't exactly suffered since then. |
The Motley Fool
April 3, 2009
Morgan Housel |
More Proof Banks Will Exploit This Bailout This takes abusing the system to a whole new level. |
The Motley Fool
December 11, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Budget Deficit Goes Into Overdrive There's something terribly ironic about a group of Congressmen and -women chastising auto company executives for driving their companies into the ground, when the state of Uncle Sam's balance sheet looks like it does today. |
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
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
October 14, 2008
Alex Dumortier |
Paulson's Land Grab: Will Your Bank Be Next? Not all banks deserve the Treasury's largesse. |
The Motley Fool
July 11, 2008
Tom Hutchinson |
The Financial System Is Cracking Banking news: Things got worse in the credit crisis this week as the market speculated that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could need a government bailout. |
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
March 4, 2009
Kristin Graham |
Bring Back Our Free Markets The government needs to let businesses fail so that we are left with businesses that will generate long-term productivity and positive returns for our economy as a whole. |
Registered Rep.
March 25, 2009
Kristen French |
Regionals Buying B/D Branches, It's All About AIG, BofA's Reassurances Stifel Nicolaus to buy 55 UBS wealth management branches spread across 24 states... Fallout from the AIG bonus kerfuffle continues to dominate the news... Bank of America to repay TARP money by April... |
BusinessWeek
June 3, 2010
Sterngold & Son |
AIG's Declaration of Independence The botched Prudential deal may not be another blow to the crippled, government-supported insurance giant as much as a sign of a tenacious new board motivated to save the company. So sit tight, taxpayers, getting your money back could take a while |
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 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 17, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Market Panic Is Back But you don't have to. |
The Motley Fool
October 28, 2009
Morgan Housel |
So Much for Confidence After rebounding sharply, overall consumer confidence is back in decline. |
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
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. |
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
November 18, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Sharks Circle the Bailout Fund Egad! The city of San Jose wants a cut. We have to draw the line. |
The Motley Fool
August 20, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Too Big to Fail, Too Big to Bail Forward-thinking solutions to the current fiscal crisis. |
