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The Motley Fool October 19, 2010 Dan Caplinger	How You Can Profit From TARP TARP warrants sold by the Treasury have a lot of appeal.
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The Motley Fool May 11, 2009 Morgan Housel	Banks Are Selling Stock. Should You Be Buying? With shares up this much and sentiment as high as it's been in recent memory, it's probably not time to buy bank stocks.
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 January 21, 2010 Morgan Housel	What's Clearly Wrong With the Bank Tax If the bank tax were presented as a way to compensate taxpayers for programs like TLGP, we'd have no problem. Instead, it's been presented as a way to recoup money that, to be fair, has already been recouped. That makes the whole thing look groundless and vengeful.
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 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 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 17, 2009 Morgan Housel	TARP's Problem Children Forty-six banks not only still hold funds, but aren't paying the preferred dividends they owe.
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.
The Motley Fool November 18, 2010 Morgan Housel	Great News for Banks Another round of stress tests, and it's good news this time.
The Motley Fool July 1, 2010 Rich Smith	Keep Dumping This Bank! The U.S. bides its time when selling Citi shares.
The Motley Fool September 4, 2009 Alex Dumortier	Wells Fargo Wants to Return Its Cake and Eat It, Too What's the hurry here?
The Motley Fool January 13, 2010 Morgan Housel	A Big Quarter for Bank Stocks What should you expect? Here's what I'm looking for.
The Motley Fool February 19, 2009 Morgan Housel	JPMorgan Chase Wants to Pay You Back More and more, banks are looking at ways to repay TARP funds.
The Motley Fool August 5, 2009 Morgan Housel	Goldman Sachs to Employees: Pretend This Hurts Here's your bonus! Now please, oh please, don't spend it.
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 December 8, 2010 Morgan Housel	Citigroup Gets the Government Out of Its Hair One step closer to freedom.
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 May 6, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer	Will Banks Plummet Tomorrow? Regulators are getting ready to reveal stress test results. What will this mean for bank stocks?
The Motley Fool October 20, 2009	Roundtable: Buy This Bank Three analysts, three bank picks.
The Motley Fool November 13, 2009 Morgan Housel	Accountants Bail Out the Treasury Saving money that was never there. If Washington could focus on real ways to reduce the deficit -- not just saving money by not spending money that was never there -- we'd appreciate it.
The Motley Fool December 7, 2009 Alex Dumortier	Citi's Race Against Time Bank of America's recent move has left Citi scrambling.
The Motley Fool April 16, 2009 Morgan Housel	Solid News From JPMorgan Chase Another great quarter. So when will JPMorgan Chase follow through on its desire to repay the $25 billion of TARP capital?
The Motley Fool April 19, 2010 Russ Krull	Citi's $5 Flirt Does Citigroup's bounce to $5 make it more attractive?
The Motley Fool February 22, 2011 Morgan Housel	Pardon Me, George Soros Clearing up misconceptions about TARP.
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.
Bank Systems & Technology October 14, 2008 Maria Bruno-Britz	U.S. Govt. Unveils Bank Buy-in Plan Also, Treasury announced it will apply compensation restrictions to the most highly compensated executives down the corporate ladder.
The Motley Fool May 19, 2009 Alex Dumortier	Time Is Running Out for Small and Mid-Sized Banks Stress testing the entire U.S. banking system.
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 November 24, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer	Maybe We Should Have Let the Banks Fail The bailout may have kept the financial system afloat, but are we setting ourselves up for more pain?
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 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.
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 May 28, 2010 Rich Smith	Dump This Bank! U.S. government sheds Citi shares by the billions, but in baby steps.
The Motley Fool May 28, 2009 Alex Dumortier	Bank Stock Investors: Listen to the FDIC! The results of the government's stress tests appear to have reassured investors. Bank stocks have enjoyed a massive rally since the market's March 9 lows, but banks aren't out of the woods yet.
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 April 15, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer	Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, and Banking Stress Tests Will government stress tests truly provide a good picture of banks' health?
The Motley Fool September 2, 2009 Alex Dumortier	B of A Wants Uncle Sam Out -- Should You Get In? As B of A prepares a government exit, should investors take the entrance door by picking up some of the bank's common shares?
Registered Rep. May 7, 2009 David A. Geracioti	10 Banks Need More Equity; MS To Raise Money To Close Smith Barney Deal The government releases its much-anticipated and much-leaked bad-bank, good-bank report. Here are the highlights.
The Motley Fool December 18, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer	Banker Pay Is a Huge Canard Banker pay has been a big focus lately, but it probably shouldn't be.
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.
Registered Rep. May 8, 2009 Kristen French	Morgan Dresses Up For TARP Exit The firm raised $8 billion in new capital on Friday through the sale of debt and equity, over 50 percent more than it announced on Thursday.
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 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.
Bank Director 2nd Quarter 2009 John R. Engen	Fear of the Unknown Receiving government funding right now is a little akin to the devil you don't know.
The Motley Fool June 22, 2009 Morgan Housel	There's No Recession for Goldman Sachs Record bonuses are in store for Goldman's employees. Is that a good thing?
The Motley Fool July 16, 2009 Morgan Housel	How Long Can Banks Keep This Up? Investment banking is blowing up, but don't count on that lasting forever.
The Motley Fool November 17, 2008 Alex Dumortier	Bank Execs Forgo Bonuses, but Does It Matter? Goldman Sachs announces that seven of its top executives, including CEO Lloyd Blankfein, will forgo bonuses this year. Expect others to follow.
The Motley Fool February 24, 2009 Morgan Housel	JPMorgan Hunkers Down JPMorgan's cut is more practical than desperate, an attempt to position the company to repay TARP as soon as is prudent, and still maintain a strong capital position.