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The Motley Fool September 11, 2008 Morgan Housel	Is Washington Mutual About to Explode? Explode? Nah. Crumble? Absolutely.
The Motley Fool April 9, 2008 Morgan Housel	WaMu Rebuffs a Sweet Offer It now appears that talks had been well under way for JPMorgan to acquire Washington Mutual -- but not anymore.
The Motley Fool April 16, 2008 Morgan Housel	A House-Poor Quarter for WaMu Just days after announcing plans to raise $7 billion in new capital, slashing its dividend, and rebuffing a preliminary buyout offer from JPMorgan Chase, the Seattle-based savings and loan posts very ugly quarterly earnings.
U.S. Banker May 2008 John Engen	House of CARDS Few financial institutions have been left more imperiled by the subprime market fallout and liquidity and credit crunches than WaMu.
The Motley Fool September 26, 2008 Anand Chokkavelu	WaMu Gets Failed Out Another one's gone. Another one gets bigger.
The Motley Fool January 18, 2007 Emil Lee	Washington Mutual Regroups for 2007 WaMu's management and shareholders likely won't look back on 2006 with nostalgia. Over the past year, WaMu's stock was slightly down, while the indexes all scored double-digit gains. However, 2007 should be a better year.
The Motley Fool April 24, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Commercial Capital Cashes Out Investors, wait on a value too long, and you might just lose it. Word broke that Washington Mutual had reached an agreement to buy this commercial real estate lender for about $983 million -- roughly $16 a share in cash.
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The Motley Fool April 20, 2005 David Meier	WaMu: It Pays to Wait Earn 5% while waiting for Washington Mutual's stock price to appreciate.
The Motley Fool June 6, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	WaMu's Plastic Play By buying Providian, Washington Mutual has added a credit card business to its retail banking. This move could bump up profitability and growth. Top that off with a pretty good dividend yield, and maybe WaMu becomes a little more attractive to investors again.
The Motley Fool July 20, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	WaMu Seems to Zig While Others Zag WaMu is a bank that seems to confound normal expectations. Investors, take note.
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The Motley Fool January 14, 2008 Jim Mueller	Worst Stock for 2008: Washington Mutual This analyst says if you think 2007 was bad for Washington Mutual, just wait for 2008. He has chosen it as his pick for the worst stock of 2008.
The Motley Fool April 14, 2008 Morgan Housel	Wachovia's Bleeding Continues More capital infusions, more writedowns, more bad news. What's next for Wachovia?
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The Motley Fool September 11, 2007 Seth Jayson	No Such Thing as Perfect Storms Unlike the words recently spoken by Washington Mutual's CEO, the current housing crisis is not a "perfect storm" situation that blew in from the ocean by chance. The mortgage crunch is the inevitable result of cheap money, opaque financial instruments, and widespread greed.
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The Motley Fool October 26, 2009 Morgan Housel	Anatomy of a Terrible Bank A look at the failure that is Washington Mutual.
The Motley Fool September 17, 2008 Morgan Housel	What's Next for WaMu? There's no indication Washington Mutual is about to fail or file for bankruptcy anytime soon. What is clear is that turmoil in the markets puts every leveraged bank in the spotlight, and WaMu is now one of the top names attracting attention during these sea-changing events.
Fast Company March 2003 Linda Tischler	Bank of (Middle) America Execs at Washington Mutual don't model themselves after Citi or Bank of America. Instead, they look for inspiration to Wal-Mart, Target, and Southwest Airlines -- giant companies that somehow manage to keep costs low and service high and meet the needs of the middle class. And it's working.
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The Motley Fool March 6, 2008 Morgan Housel	Washington Mutual's Shady Compensation Plan Poor performance plus huge write-offs plus big layoffs equals big executive bonuses.
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The Motley Fool October 5, 2007 Billy Fisher	Dueling Fools: Washington Mutual Bear Rebuttal The bears say about Washington Mutual that looking forward, outperformance is unlikely, so why not put your money elsewhere?
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The Motley Fool October 31, 2008 Morgan Housel	Should We Force Bailed Banks to Lend? Some banks are now coming under fire for not lending enough.
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BusinessWeek October 13, 2003 Stephanie Anderson Forest	Is This Any Way to Run a Bank? WaMu's alleged blunders have it fending off lawsuits and complaints.
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