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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
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
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
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 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
July 13, 2010
John Rosevear |
Is General Motors Rushing Its IPO? Despite less-than-ideal timing, GM seems determined to go public ASAP. Why? |
The Motley Fool
November 17, 2010
Rich Smith |
General Motors IPO: How Much Cash for This Clunker? Too little cash, too many shares, and too soon sold means this IPO will fail. |
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 8, 2010
Morgan Housel |
Citigroup Gets the Government Out of Its Hair One step closer to freedom. |
The Motley Fool
April 19, 2011
Rich Smith |
Kiss Your Money Goodbye, Taxpayers So long, and thanks for all the cash. Yesterday, the U.S. government admitted that it's ready to throw in the towel on the GM IPO. The Treasury Department is preparing to sell its remaining 500 million-share stake in GM when its lock-up period expires. |
The Motley Fool
June 4, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Rebuilding General Motors The New GM, we hear, will be a lean, mean, profitable Motown machine. Therefore, taxpayers' 60.8% ownership stake might be worth something meaningful. Maybe even enough to recoup a significant portion of their investment. |
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." |
BusinessWeek
July 15, 2010
Roben Farzad et al. |
GM's IPO May Require Hefty Incentives The initial public offering of recently bankrupt and nationalized General Motors looks to be one of the trickiest deals in memory. |
HBS Working Knowledge
November 18, 2010 |
GM's IPO: Back to the Future General Motors reaches a milestone this week as it presents an initial public offering. Harvard Business School faculty discuss issues facing the automaker's revival. |
The Motley Fool
May 28, 2010
Rich Smith |
Dump This Bank! U.S. government sheds Citi shares by the billions, but in baby steps. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
January 5, 2009
Rich Duprey |
GMAC Steers Taxpayers Wrong Uncle Sam has given them an inch, what's to prevent GM from taking a mile? |
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
April 26, 2010
Rich Smith |
Pay Up, GM. Then Get Lost. When GM goes public, the U.S. should sell to anyone who's buying and return the money to taxpayers. |
BusinessWeek
April 14, 2011
David Welch |
For Investors, the Shine Is Off the New GM The Detroit giant's shares have sunk below their IPO price |
The Motley Fool
August 20, 2010
John Rosevear |
Is General Motors Worth Buying? The iconic automaker's IPO looms. Should you care? |
The Motley Fool
May 13, 2011
Rich Smith |
AIG IPO A-OK? It looks to Wall Street like the AIG IPO is going to happen after all. |
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
November 15, 2010
Rich Smith |
General Motors IPO: Sorry, No Pie for You Want a piece of the GM IPO? Fat chance. |
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
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
July 1, 2010
Rich Smith |
Keep Dumping This Bank! The U.S. bides its time when selling Citi shares. |
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
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 14, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Paulson Backs Up the Truck After weeks of uncertainty, banks get exactly what they need. |
The Motley Fool
October 30, 2008
David Lee Smith |
Everyone's Jumping Into the Bailout Line What started off as aid to the banks now appears to be accepting all comers. |
The Motley Fool
September 3, 2010
John Rosevear |
Autos Weekly: GM's New Anxiety New details emerge on GM's plan for going public. |
The Motley Fool
November 10, 2010
John Rosevear |
It's Time to Take General Motors Seriously Laugh while you can, skeptics. There might be a real business here. |
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
December 12, 2008
Rich Duprey |
The Banks Beat You to It, Detroit Tough love from Uncle Sam may help automakers in the long run. |
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
May 1, 2009
Rich Duprey |
The Long and Short of the New Chrysler The promise of a quick, surgical bankruptcy may not come true. |
BusinessWeek
September 16, 2010
Jeff Green |
Obama's Blue-Collar Crusader Ron Bloom wants to reverse the 50-year trend of exporting jobs |
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
November 20, 2010
Rich Smith |
What's Next for General Motors? A few words of advice for investors of all stripes. |
The Motley Fool
December 8, 2010
Rich Smith |
Big Brother Dumps Big Banking But that doesn't mean Citigroup won't go higher. |
The Motley Fool
November 6, 2010
Rich Smith |
Get Rich From the General Motors IPO GM's CFO boosts IPO prospects -- and the government's backing him up. |
The Motley Fool
November 10, 2008
Tim Hanson |
Satellite Radio: Too Big to Fail Could this be the next industry to get help from the federal government? |
The Motley Fool
August 12, 2010
Surojit Chatterjee |
GM Readies for IPO After Rebuilding Itself But will consumers see the automaker differently? |
BusinessWeek
April 16, 2009
David Welch |
Going Green Could Add to GM, Chrysler's Red One of the Obama Administration's key requirements for keeping General Motors and Chrysler alive is that both companies cut their debt drastically. And yet, the Energy Dept. is gearing up to lend them billions more. |
The Motley Fool
November 24, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Citigroup Comes Back for Seconds Barely more than a month after receiving a $25 billion injection from the Treasury, a one-week swoon in its stock price sent Citi limping back to the Treasury, hat in hand, for second helpings. |
The Motley Fool
May 29, 2009
Rich Duprey |
General Motors' Word Not Its Bond If there's one takeaway from the sad demise of GM, it's a re-evaluation of how bondholder rights are treated. Investors are going to think long and hard about whether corporate bonds offer the protection they're seeking if there's no security in being a "secured bondholder." |
The Motley Fool
September 21, 2010
John Rosevear |
Will the Chinese End Up Owning General Motors? A leading Chinese company looks to invest in GM. Should the U.S. worry? |
BusinessWeek
August 5, 2010
Green & Welch |
Did Obama Save Detroit? The President makes the case that the $59 billion bailout saved the industry. Republicans and many voters say the rescue was misguided. |
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 |
