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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 October 30, 2009 Morgan "Foreclosed" Housel	World's Scariest Stocks: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac still give off the impression of being capitalistic, shareholder-owned companies. There's not.
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The Motley Fool September 3, 2008 Alex Dumortier	Kiss the Global Financial System Goodbye? China is by far the largest foreign investor in U.S. long-term agency debt. These days, the Chinese are fretting over Fannie and Freddie.
InternetNews September 9, 2008 Paul Shread	Stock Gains Evaporate The market's enthusiasm over the rescue of Fannie and Freddie lasted all of a day, but TI could give technology investors a boost on Wednesday.
InternetNews September 16, 2008 Paul Shread	Dell Tumbles, But Stocks Recover on AIG Hopes Dell hit a 10-year low after warning of weak demand, but AIG's fate remains critical for financial markets.
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.
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The Motley Fool August 11, 2008 Alex Dumortier	The Fannie Mae DMZ Fannie Mae and her little brother, Freddie Mac, are minefields right now -- you'd be better off avoiding the stocks altogether.
The Motley Fool August 6, 2009 Morgan Housel	Big Day for Bad Stocks As the Dow Jones fell 40 points yesterday, some of the market's worst companies -- financial stocks either majority owned by the government or still drowning in losses -- scored utterly insane gains.
The Motley Fool September 9, 2009 Alex Dumortier	One Year Later: The Big Risk We're Still Facing This fundamental risk is larger than ever. Banks that are "too big to fail" benefit from an implicit taxpayer subsidy since their funding costs do not adequately reflect the risk of failure.
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BusinessWeek October 28, 2010 Robert Schmidt	Living Nicely Off the Crumbs of TARP Private companies also benefited from the financial bailout.
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 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.
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The Motley Fool June 30, 2004 Roger Nusbaum	Freddie's Follies What's next for the mortgage behemoth, Freddie Mac?
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Registered Rep. June 10, 2008	Lehman Won't Back Down The de-leveraging and the new $6 billion in capital may calm some nerves, but Lehman's earnings power going forward still may be diminished.
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U.S. Banker October 2009 Barbara A. Rehm	What if More Women Ran Banks? Many of the women being honored in this issue say female CEOs would have had more diverse management teams that would have reined in the institution long before losses began piling up like leaves in the woods on a windy fall day.
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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 September 30, 2008 Morgan Housel	What Part of the Bailout Plan Did You Miss? Picking apart the new plan.
The Motley Fool May 11, 2010 Alex Dumortier	Revealed: The $145 Billion Hole No One Noticed A U.S. company announced a first quarter net loss of $11.5 billion and a deficit in shareholders' equity of $145 billion, and the news went almost completely unnoticed.
Bank Systems & Technology June 21, 2009 Katherine Burger	Herbert Allison Confirmed as Department of Treasury's Assistant Secretary for Financial Stability Former Fannie Mae and TIAA-CREF CEO's responsibilities include overseeing TARP.
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