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The Motley Fool October 1, 2008 Morgan Housel	Fool Poll: How Should the Senate Vote? Two days after the House of Representatives voted down the proposed financial bailout plan, the Senate will meet this evening to vote on a similar proposal. Similar, but not completely the same.
The Motley Fool October 6, 2008 Morgan Housel	The Incredible Shrinking Dow The last time anyone got this animated over Dow 10,000 was March of 1999, when it passed the mark for the first time.
The Motley Fool October 3, 2008 Morgan Housel	Bailout: It's On For the House of Representatives, the second time's a charm.
The Motley Fool September 29, 2008 Morgan Housel	Fool Poll: Do You Agree With the House's Vote? Weighing in on today's historic moves.
The Motley Fool September 30, 2008 Morgan Housel	Market Meltdown: What Happens From Here It's official: Chicken Little has been vindicated.
The Motley Fool September 30, 2008 Morgan Housel	What Part of the Bailout Plan Did You Miss? Picking apart the new plan.
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 October 20, 2008 Morgan Housel	Why the Bailout Makes Sense No one said that the bailout would solve anything. They did say it would prevent the financial crisis from imploding beyond recovery. From that standpoint, it's been a raging success.
The Motley Fool November 18, 2008 Morgan Housel	$700 Billion Bailout? Not So Fast Only $290 billion of the original $350 billion have been used so far, and Hank Paulson has said he's unlikely to use the remaining $410 billion, at least for the time being.
The Motley Fool November 29, 2010 Russ Krull	Betting on Bailouts Using the recent U.S. bailout track record as a guide for investing in Europe.
The Motley Fool February 19, 2009 Rich Duprey	Detroit's Bailout Tab Keeps on Growing With the auto industry's bailout plans based on unreasonable assumptions and rosy predictions, it seems fated for sure-fire failure. But if any of these proposals pass muster, it is the taxpayer who will be doomed.
The Motley Fool December 10, 2008 Rich Duprey	Detroit's Dance With the Devil The bailout of the auto industry has ridden some rough road lately, and although a vote is possible in the House today, it's the nuts and bolts that may end up proving its undoing.
The Motley Fool September 23, 2008 Morgan Housel	Bad Luck for Good Banks There are all sorts of negative consequences to the proposed bailout deal but what about other innocent victims of this mess: the few banks that aren't in trouble?
InternetNews September 29, 2008 Paul Shread	Apple Leads Stock Plunge as Bailout Bill Fails The stock market suffered its steepest plunge in decades after a massive financial rescue plan failed a House vote.
The Motley Fool August 29, 2008 Rich Duprey	A Bailout by Any Other Name ... Despite the Big 3 automakers saying their request for a handout from the federal government isn't a bailout, what else can you call the $50 billion in loans they're requesting?
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 March 2, 2009 Morgan Housel	What's Next? Dow 5,000? It might not be far off. But as the markets keep falling, the selling is getting more and more rational.
The Motley Fool September 25, 2008 Morgan Housel	Still Waiting at WaMu And waiting, and waiting, and waiting ...
The Motley Fool October 13, 2008 Morgan Housel	Dissecting McCain's Bailout Plan A little "straight talk" on the candidate's mortgage proposal.
The Motley Fool October 30, 2008 Rich Duprey	An Auto Merger Car Wreck Proposals to unite GM and Chrysler are overpriced flights of fancy.
The Motley Fool November 11, 2008 Morgan Housel	Why We Shouldn't Bail Out Detroit Comparing a Detroit bailout to a financial-system bailout is, quite frankly, stupid.
The Motley Fool February 10, 2009 Rich Duprey	An Out of Control Car Wreck Only six weeks ago, Toyota announced it would post its first operating loss in its 70-year history, and just last week revised those estimates to say those losses will triple.
The Motley Fool September 22, 2008 Morgan Housel	The Death of Wall Street Wall Street as it's been known for decades got a dramatic makeover this weekend as the remaining independent investment banks -- Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley -- gained approval from the Federal Reserve to be recognized as bank holding companies.
The Motley Fool September 22, 2008 Alyce Lomax	Fool Blog: Paulson's Mother of All Boondoggles Congressional Democrats are trying to insert some limits on executive compensation, among other things, into the massive bailout package. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson doesn't like the idea.
The Motley Fool October 2, 2008 Rich Duprey	Detroit Gets Its Cash Carmakers get their $25 billion handout.
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 September 19, 2008 Morgan Housel	The Mother of All Mother of All Bailouts In the coming hours and days, the Treasury and Federal Reserve are expected to introduce a sweeping bailout plan designed to finally pound a nail in the credit-crisis coffin for good.
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 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 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.
Reason December 2008 David Weigel	Atlas Blinked Fiscally conservative Republicans were lost at sea in the Panic of 2008.
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 17, 2010 John Rosevear	Will General Motors Ever Pay Us Back? The upcoming IPO won't do it. Is there any hope?
The Motley Fool October 2, 2008 Chokkavelu & Richards	Everything You Want to Know About the $700 Billion Plan All your "bailout" coverage in one place with a recap of the events that have crippled our financial and credit markets and forced the government's hand.
The Motley Fool October 8, 2008 Rich Duprey	Limits on CEO Pay Have No Bite The bailout bill's supposed limits on CEO pay are much ado about nothing.
The Motley Fool December 16, 2008 Dave Mock	A Big Upgrade for AIG While it may be hard to believe, more top-performing CAPS members are turning bullish on American International Group these days, exhibiting optimism for the future.
The Motley Fool December 3, 2008 Rich Duprey	Just Give Them the Money, Already Congress is putting up a front over handing the carmakers a bailout. Just get it over with.
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 December 2, 2008 Alex Dumortier	Paulson Calls a Bottom in the Mortgage Market It's worth listening to a hedge fund manager who has a clue.
The Motley Fool September 17, 2008 Morgan Housel	The Fall of AIG Why did the Fed ultimately decide to bail out AIG?
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."
Registered Rep. May 20, 2008	Should Congress Rescue Me From My Margin Debt? The Senate deal to save struggling homeowners by refinancing up to $300 billion in loans seems quite unfair to taxpayers and equity investors or speculators of any kind.
The Motley Fool November 10, 2008 Rich Duprey	A New Assembly Line in Washington U.S. carmakers renew their case for loans. But should they get them?
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.
The Motley Fool August 27, 2008 Alyce Lomax	Fool Blog: Uncle Sam, Please Let Something Fail! Someone, anyone, please acknowledge that we still operate under some semblance of capitalism -- let a company fail for a change.
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 October 9, 2008 Morgan Housel	AIG's Second Bailout $85 billion here, $37.8 billion there ... but who's counting?
The Motley Fool December 4, 2008 Kris Eddy	How I Learned to Love the Bailout A tongue-in-cheek look at how thinking outside the box may provide more ways for more companies to profit from the bailout.
The Motley Fool October 8, 2008 Morgan Housel	How Commercial Paper Got Sucked Into This Mess As with everything else, blame it on real estate.
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.