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The Motley Fool September 9, 2009 Alex Dumortier	One Year Later: The Big Risk We're Still Facing This fundamental risk is larger than ever. Banks that are "too big to fail" benefit from an implicit taxpayer subsidy since their funding costs do not adequately reflect the risk of failure.
The Motley Fool December 2, 2009 Sean Ryan	The Wrong Way to End "Too Big to Fail" The case against Glass-Steagall 2.0. Enshrine in law that henceforth, shareholders and creditors are on their own. No more privatized gains and socialized losses.
The Motley Fool September 15, 2008 Brian Richards	Roundtable: Why You Should Care That Lehman Went Bust Lehman Brothers will soon be no more. Merrill Lynch is being acquired by Bank of America. And AIG is desperately trying to shore up its capital. These events are, without exaggeration, the biggest Wall Street headlines in a decade.
The Motley Fool May 8, 2009 Alex Dumortier	No Bank Is "Too Big to Fail!" Protecting banks from failure is an idea whose time maybe has gone.
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 June 29, 2011 Morgan Housel	Too Big to Fail vs. Capitalism When intervention is pro-business. Since the passage of Dodd-Frank, there have really been two groups in the "too big to fail" debate. One says leave the banks alone.
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 July 14, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer	Nothing's Changed in Banking The recent upending of the financial world seems to have yielded few results.
The Motley Fool September 21, 2009 Morgan Housel	How Bad Are These Bank Failures? Let's take a look at the coming wave of bank failures compared to other banking meltdowns.
The Motley Fool January 22, 2010 Rich Duprey	Obama's Glass Ceiling Resurrecting the Depression-era Glass-Steagall Act won't solve anything.
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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 October 22, 2008 Alex Dumortier	US Bancorp's Double Opportunity Strong banks can take market share in a crisis and US Bancorp appears to be doing just that.
The Motley Fool May 10, 2010 Matt Koppenheffer	Thanks for Making Things Worse, Congress! Legislators continue to set the bar lower for financial reform.
The Motley Fool August 23, 2010 Ilan Moscovitz	Treasury on Regulatory Failure and "Too Big to Fail" The Treasury Department answers questions on the new regulations and big banking. Part two of a three-part interview.
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 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 January 14, 2010 Alex Dumortier	The Riskiest, Most Profitable Bank of All While the Fed won't suffer the same fate as Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers or Northern Rock, a run on the dollar (or even just an orderly decline) could turn out to be the direct equivalent of a run on the (central) bank.
The Motley Fool November 13, 2009 Moscovitz & Housel	It's Time to End 'Too Big to Fail' We spent the latter half of 2008 feeling the wrath of "too big to fail." Today, banks are bigger than ever. We need to end that. Now.
The Motley Fool September 9, 2010 Chris Hill	Maria Bartiromo on The Weekend That Changed Wall Street A Motley Fool Money interview with the host of CNBC's Closing Bell and author of The Weekend That Changed Wall Street: An Eyewitness Account.
The Motley Fool October 30, 2008	The Motley Fool Crisis Survival Kit With a calm head and a smart game plan, each of us can get through the current crisis. Read on for advice.
The Motley Fool October 8, 2009 Jennifer Schonberger	We Haven't Learned Lehman's Lesson Yet Economist Simon Johnson reflects on the financial crisis.
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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.
The Motley Fool September 17, 2008 Dan Caplinger	You're Holding the Bag on Financials It's too early to tell just how big the taxpayer bill for the various bailouts, bank failures, and bankruptcies might be. But one thing is for sure: Mutual fund shareholders have already taken a big hit.
The Motley Fool June 17, 2011 Cindy Johnson	What's Scarier Than a Bailout Bank? What could be scarier than a bank that's "too big to fail"? A bank that isn't. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s list of banks that have failed consists mostly of regional and community banks the government is willing to let go.
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 October 24, 2008 Alex Dumortier	Smart Deal, PNC! PNC's planned takeover of National City is a great way for PNC to take advantage of the Treasury's recapitalization package to bolster its franchise.
The Motley Fool July 2, 2010 Jennifer Schonberger	The Man Behind Congress' Too Big to Fail Remedy Weighs In on Reform Paul Kanjorski says regulators would have more power with the new legislation.
The Motley Fool January 2, 2009 Morgan Housel	Sizing Up Banking's New Giants Didn't we learn our lesson about letting banks become "too big to fail"? What's left of the banking industry after recent consolidations is becoming bigger and potentially more complex once again.
The Motley Fool September 22, 2008 Alex Dumortier	The Truth About Naked Shorts There's been a lot of information and misinformation about short selling recently. Read on to bring yourself up to speed and bust some myths along the way.
U.S. Banker February 2009 Michael Sisk	Capital Reservation The financial industry is in for a major regulatory overhaul, and one area that's getting lots of attention is capital ratios.
The Motley Fool December 18, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer	Banker Pay Is a Huge Canard Banker pay has been a big focus lately, but it probably shouldn't be.
The Motley Fool January 13, 2010 Matt Koppenheffer	A Fee on Big Banks? Ain't Gonna Happen This laughable move would end up hurting investors and customers.
The Motley Fool December 1, 2009 Alex Dumortier	Banks: The Problem That Won't Go Die Quietly Massive loan losses still remain on bank balance sheets.
The Motley Fool April 8, 2009 Morgan Housel	They're All Too Big to Fail Plenty of Wall Street banks -- all of them "too big to fail" -- are still ticking time bombs when it comes to bloated derivative books.
The Motley Fool April 20, 2009 Morgan Housel	Big Irony From a Big Bank JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon not only avoided the bulk of the financial disaster, but also spent years fortifying JPMorgan's balance sheet in case the Big One hit. But now, he makes one big hypocritical statement.
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The Motley Fool November 13, 2008 Alex Dumortier	Soros and Congress' Smokescreen Hedge funds aren't the culprits in this crisis. The only losses hedge funds have sustained will be borne by their investors -- all qualified individuals and institutions.
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The Motley Fool February 18, 2009 Alex Dumortier	Greenspan Finally Gets It Right on Banks Federal Reserve ex-Chairman Alan Greenspan recommends that the government consider wholesale bank nationalization, calling it "the least bad solution."
The Motley Fool November 24, 2008 Rich Duprey	Too Big to Fail? Ha! A number of iconic businesses have seemingly found a similar magical elixir causing them to expand to such a size that they can no longer fit through the doorway of bankruptcy.
The Motley Fool February 19, 2009 Alex Dumortier	Should We Bail Out Main Street or Wall Street? Really, it's all related, whether bailing out from the bottom up or the top down.
The Motley Fool September 3, 2008 Alex Dumortier	Kiss the Global Financial System Goodbye? China is by far the largest foreign investor in U.S. long-term agency debt. These days, the Chinese are fretting over Fannie and Freddie.
The Motley Fool December 4, 2008 Alex Dumortier	Paulson's New Plan: A Cheap Mortgage for Every Home A new rescue plan for the economy would use nationalized mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to lower the 30-year fixed mortgage rate down as far as 4.5%, over a full point lower than the current level.
The Motley Fool March 17, 2009 Bleeker & Williamson	Who's More to Blame: The SEC or Fannie and Freddie? March Madness series: Which government-ish entity do you choose? The SEC has more than enough complicity in this mess, but Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were set up to fail from the start.
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