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The Motley Fool May 24, 2011 Alex Dumortier	AIG Share Sale: Who Gains? Uncle Sam is selling 300 million shares of insurer AIG today, part of the 92% stake it inherited as a part of its $182 billion bailout, and the company is taking this opportunity to issue 100 million new shares.
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The Motley Fool September 25, 2008 Alyce Lomax	Bailout: The Sucker Punch Regardless of outcome, we need to ask some serious questions.
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The Motley Fool October 13, 2008 Morgan Housel	Dissecting McCain's Bailout Plan A little "straight talk" on the candidate's mortgage proposal.
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The Motley Fool April 5, 2011 Morgan Housel	A History of U.S. Government Bailouts Truth is, the U.S. has been giving bailouts for decades. While the 2008 bailouts were the largest, they were by no means the first time Uncle Sam has come to the rescue of failing businesses. Here's a brief history of intervention.
The Motley Fool September 30, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer	1 Year Later: The Most Unfairly Punished Stock Plenty of stocks had unwarranted declines during the downturn. Which was the most unfairly punished?
The Motley Fool March 20, 2009 Chuck Saletta	The Government's All-Out War on Private Capital More than a year, and well over eleven trillion dollars into this fiasco, the economy shows no sign of recovering any time soon. It's beyond time to acknowledge that the government's rescue plans have deepened, rather than resolved, this crisis.
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