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The Motley Fool
August 25, 2009
Alex Dumortier |
Bernanke Is Sentenced to 4 More Years President Obama announced his nomination of "Helicopter" Ben Bernanke to a second term as chairman of the Fed. Bernanke is game -- but is he the right choice?   |
The Motley Fool
August 20, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Too Big to Fail, Too Big to Bail Forward-thinking solutions to the current fiscal crisis. |
The Motley Fool
March 20, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Bear Bails Out Bernanke The Fed Chairman can't win. If he slashes rates, Bernanke is a bum. If he bails out an iconic investment banker, he's destroying our financial system. |
The Motley Fool
January 16, 2009
Matt Koppenheffer |
Is Moral Hazard Still a Bogeyman? Should we still fear moral hazard? The Philly Fed president thinks so. |
The Motley Fool
July 17, 2008
Chuck Saletta |
Bernanke's Complete and Utter Failure If the Fed's rate cut six months ago had been the extent of its command-and-control meddling, we might've been out of the woods by now. Sadly, it wasn't, and we're not. |
The Motley Fool
June 17, 2009
Matt Koppenheffer |
Will Obama's Plan Lead to Financial Failure? Only time will tell if Obama's plan will lead to a better system or just a bureaucratic mess. |
The Motley Fool
December 31, 2008 |
The 10 Biggest Stories of 2008 What Bear Stearns' fallout means for investors... The people responsible for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac... Why you should care that Lehman went bust... Black Sunday on Wall Street... AIG's failure is so much bigger than Enron's... etc. |
The Motley Fool
September 17, 2008
Morgan Housel |
The Fall of AIG Why did the Fed ultimately decide to bail out AIG? |
BusinessWeek
August 6, 2009
Roben Farzad |
Bernanke, Flying by the Seat of His Pants In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic, by David Wessel, is an engrossing look at the central bank's swift reaction to the crisis, and how it is wielding its power. |
The Motley Fool
September 22, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Can We Afford All of These Bailouts? There was another period of time when the financial system was allowed to collapse and banks were allowed to fail left and right. The ensuing period was so horrific, no one dares to call it anything less than the Great Depression. |
The Motley Fool
July 9, 2008
Rich Duprey |
Getting Burned by Bernanke His proposal to expand the Fed's power might incinerate the economy. |
The Motley Fool
July 14, 2008
Alex Dumortier |
Why Fannie and Freddie Were Doomed After a stunning week in which the government-sponsored enterprises saw nearly half their stock market value erased, the Treasury and the Federal Reserve announced three measures to reassure the market. But how did we get into this mess in the first place? |
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. |
The Motley Fool
August 22, 2008
Morgan Housel |
A Stealth Lehman Bailout? Was the Fed's reported intervention a taste of things to come? |
The Motley Fool
March 20, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Morgan Stanley's Traders Score Big Morgan Stanley became the latest of the major investment banks to report better-than-expected earnings this week, sweetening some of the market's viciously sour mood. |
The Motley Fool
December 16, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Bernanke's Out of Bullets Ben Bernanke has spent the past year and a half firing as many bullets as possible to prop up the economy. After lowering the target on the Fed funds rate to a range of zero to 0.25%, he's finally out of ammunition. |
The Motley Fool
November 16, 2007
Seth Jayson |
Fannie Flunks Again A suspicious looking accounting change may cause everyone to pay for Fannie Mae's bad behavior, if it leads to a green light for the housing bailout plan proposed by Fed Chair Ben Bernanke. |
The Motley Fool
March 25, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Ben Bernanke Got Punk'd Yesterday's five-fold increase in JPMorgan's bidding price for Bear Stearns is a slap in the face to the Fed-fueled buyout that Ben Bernanke helped orchestrate. |
The Motley Fool
October 28, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Wedding Bells for Goldman and Citigroup? The next step for the financial industry looks as though it'll be massive consolidation. |
The Motley Fool
March 24, 2009 |
Geithner and Bernanke Call for More Power Should the government have more control over financial institutions? Fools chime in with their thoughts. |
The Motley Fool
September 20, 2007
Seth Jayson |
Bear and the Housing Carcass Investors, do you think Ben Bernanke's half-point rate cut can save housing, like the folks at the National Association of Realtors claim? Then take just the briefest peak at the earnings release from Bear Stearns. |
The Motley Fool
April 4, 2008
Tom Hutchinson |
Congress Grills Bernanke Over Bear Recent hearings debated the Fed's role in bailing out Bear Stearns. |
The Motley Fool
July 23, 2009
Matt Koppenheffer |
Should Ben Bernanke Get Another Term? He became chairman of the Federal Reserve right as we hurtled into financial meltdown. Does Bernanke deserve to keep the job? |
The Motley Fool
March 17, 2008
Seth Jayson |
Bernanke Bails Out Bear Has Bernanke saved the financial system, or has he guaranteed that we pay for Wall Street's mistakes? |
The Motley Fool
March 17, 2009
Caplinger & Bylund |
Who's More to Blame: Ben Bernanke or Credit Derivatives? March Madness series: The derivatives that are behind this debacle have been around a lot longer than the three years that Bernanke has headed the Fed. Are they to blame? Or should Ben Bernanke have been more direct in calling for changes to be made? |
The Motley Fool
August 19, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Freddie Shareholders: There's Nothing Left A Barrons article highlighted the truth: There's literally nothing left for common shareholders of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, particularly regarding Freddie. |
The Motley Fool
December 10, 2008
Morgan Housel |
5 Stocks to Avoid in 2009 There's value in today's market, but you won't find it in these five stocks. Read on to see which stocks to avoid right now. |
U.S. Banker
May 2008
Joseph Rosta |
Moral Hazard? A Greater Hazard Lurks. Not getting regulations correct after today's crisis would be the true moral hazard. |
The Motley Fool
September 29, 2008
Morgan Housel |
The Bailout: Myths, Half-Truths, and Inconsistencies Just the facts, ma'am, just the facts. |
The Motley Fool
September 25, 2008
Alyce Lomax |
Bailout: The Sucker Punch Regardless of outcome, we need to ask some serious questions. |
The Motley Fool
April 11, 2008
Chuck Saletta |
The Next Unsustainable Asset Bubble As long as the first response to any financial stress is a quick infusion of cheap money, the formation of the next bubble is a virtual certainty. |
The Motley Fool
January 9, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Fool Awards: The Biggest Surprise of the Year We narrowed the biggest events of the year down to these five shockers. Sadly, none of them were good surprises. |
The Motley Fool
March 6, 2008
David Lee Smith |
Bailout Ben's Bogus Brainstorm The Fed chairman would like to up the federal role, and use your money, to solve housing's woes. |
The Motley Fool
September 9, 2009
Matt Koppenheffer |
Bernanke, Paulson, and Geithner: Champs or Chumps? It's been a year since the financial markets went splat. Have government officials succeeded in combating the collapse? |
The Motley Fool
September 15, 2008
Andrew Sullivan |
Why Lehman's Failure Is the Best Outcome As painful as it is, as painful as it will be, the fact that both the government and the financial industry let Lehman fail is ultimately a sign of confidence in our financial markets. |
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
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
September 11, 2008
Alex Dumortier |
A Scorecard for the Fannie, Freddie Bailout As the dust settles on the first stage of the rescue of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, it's time to chalk up winners and losers. |
The Motley Fool
September 10, 2009
Anand Chokkavelu |
The Market Meltdown: A Year Later Are we better off today? |
The Motley Fool
March 17, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Bear Stearns: 1 Year Later One year ago today, markets learned that Bear Stearns had gone kaboom, agreeing to be sold to JPMorgan Chase. What have we learned since then? |
The Motley Fool
December 16, 2009
Alyce Lomax |
Bernanke's the Man (of the Year)? Would you name the Fed Chief 2009's Person of the Year? |
The Motley Fool
October 6, 2008
Chuck Saletta |
Why the Bailout Solves Nothing Congratulations - you've just been sold an extremely expensive pig in a poke that you'll be paying for throughout the rest of your life. |
The Motley Fool
November 18, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Sharks Circle the Bailout Fund Egad! The city of San Jose wants a cut. We have to draw the line. |
The Motley Fool
March 19, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Lehman Brothers Holds Tough Despite a wretched week, Lehman battles back liquidity rumors. |
The Motley Fool
March 20, 2008
Chuck Saletta |
Ben Bernanke Is Destroying Our Financial System Lost amidst all of Bernanke's heavy-handed government intervention is the fact that, if left alone, the markets still work. |
The Motley Fool
July 11, 2008
Tom Hutchinson |
The Financial System Is Cracking Banking news: Things got worse in the credit crisis this week as the market speculated that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could need a government bailout. |
The Motley Fool
September 12, 2008
Alex Dumortier |
Who Will Buy Lehman? The investment bank's days of independence are numbered. |
The Motley Fool
September 22, 2008
Anand Chokkavelu |
Fool Poll: The Biggest Financial Shock of the Week Last weeks financial stories were amazing. Crazy rumors trumped by crazier reality. Which one of these made you gasp the loudest? |
The Motley Fool
October 2, 2009
Morgan Housel |
The Biggest Bank Deals That Never Happened You think you've seen too big to fail? You ain't seen nothing. |
The Motley Fool
March 24, 2008
Dan Caplinger |
How the Fed Rescues Markets Lower interest rates support stock prices in several ways. |
