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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 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 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 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 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 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 September 15, 2009 Morgan Housel	Citigroup Wants Taxpayers Out of Its Hair What's that mean for shareholders? Not much.
The Motley Fool February 22, 2011 Morgan Housel	Pardon Me, George Soros Clearing up misconceptions about TARP.
The Motley Fool February 23, 2009 Morgan Housel	The Long, Slow, Death of Citigroup What the latest attempt to save the beleaguered bank means for the company, the market, and you.
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 July 1, 2010 Rich Smith	Keep Dumping This Bank! The U.S. bides its time when selling Citi shares.
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 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 November 18, 2010 Morgan Housel	Great News for Banks Another round of stress tests, and it's good news this time.
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 November 10, 2010 Morgan Housel	A Short History of Bank Failures Why the financial system is more vulnerable now than ever before.
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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 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 May 20, 2009 Morgan Housel	Finding Fairness for Banks Our view of the banking industry might soon change for the better.
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 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 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 February 10, 2009 Morgan Housel	Will This Plan Save the Banks? Treasury Secretary Geithner discloses revamped government plans -- or lack thereof.
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 April 19, 2010 Russ Krull	Citi's $5 Flirt Does Citigroup's bounce to $5 make it more attractive?
The Motley Fool March 25, 2011 Isac Simon	Small Banks Are Still Having a Financial Crisis Yet to recover from losses, smaller banks are adopting desperate measures to pay back federal debt.
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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 October 23, 2009	Roundtable: Sell This Bank Three analysts ... three bank sells.
The Motley Fool June 12, 2009 Morgan Housel	What's Next for Citigroup? What does the conversion to common stock from preferred stock mean for Citigroup? A few things -- some good, some bad, some potentially disastrous.
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.
The Motley Fool October 20, 2009 Morgan Housel	No Bueno, Citigroup Mexican regulators are ready to attack.
The Motley Fool September 15, 2009 Morgan Housel	What If Citigroup Had Bought Wachovia? Around this time last year, Citigroup struck a deal to buy Wachovia, a bank that surely would have failed without being bought. What would have happened if they did?
The Motley Fool December 15, 2009 Alex Dumortier	Wells Fargo Goes Off the Cliff Once Bank of America and Citigroup announced that they were repaying the government's TARP investments, it was only matter of time before Wells Fargo did the same.
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 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 October 19, 2010 Dan Caplinger	How You Can Profit From TARP TARP warrants sold by the Treasury have a lot of appeal.
The Motley Fool January 22, 2011 Russ Krull	Citigroup Flirts With $5 Again Will the share price hold?
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The Motley Fool October 15, 2009 Morgan Housel	Poor, Poor Citigroup Who loves the beleaguered bank? Only Uncle Sam.
The Motley Fool December 10, 2009 Alex Dumortier	Citi Wants Out -- What About Shareholders? Will shareholders get a reprieve from dilution? Citi now urgently wants to repay the government's $20 billion preferred share investment as quickly as possible.
The Motley Fool May 21, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer	Banks to Geithner: It's Payback Time Major banks are lining up to pay back TARP borrowings and keep the government from further mucking up their business.
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