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The Motley Fool
November 14, 2008
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I Think We Just Got Mugged Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's recent comments about his shifting strategy for tackling the financial crisis have made many people wonder whether they're being robbed blind.   |
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
December 1, 2008
Alyce Lomax |
Confidence ... or Con Game? When you think about it, trying to gain someone's confidence in order to grift them out of their hard-earned dollars really isn't an outlandish metaphor for our current situation. |
Bank Systems & Technology
November 21, 2008
Orla O'Sullivan |
TARP Can't Stanch Financial Crisis, Experts Say Experts agree that the U.S. government's $700 billion bank bailout program is insufficient to spur lending because banks still have far from an optimal balance of debts to assets. |
BusinessWeek
March 31, 2011
Tom Keene |
Tom Keene Talks to Neil Barofsky The outgoing Special Inspector General for TARP anticipates new financial crises and discusses the limits of the Dodd-Frank reform law. |
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
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
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
April 27, 2009
Alyce Lomax |
Con Games Don't Build Trust In its bailout fervor, has the government lost sight of logic and abandoned the crucial concept of letting businesses reap what they sow? |
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
April 21, 2010
John Rosevear |
General Motors Still Owes You GM's ability and willingness to pay its debt now could well be a sign that GM's financial picture, believed to be looking up after a $4.3 billion post-bankruptcy loss in 2009, is solidly on track. Or, it could also be a sign of something else. |
U.S. Banker
December 2008 |
Hank's Group Think The Troubled Asset Relief Program was supposed to purchase toxic securities from banks to stabilize their finances. But in short order, given the difficulty valuing those assets, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and company switched gears and chose to take equity stakes in big banks. |
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
December 15, 2008
Chuck Saletta |
Are Bernanke and Paulson Bankrupting America? No matter how pristine their intentions, the end results of their interventions are turning into ever more economic pain and suffering for ordinary Americans. |
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
November 19, 2008
Liz Peek |
What's So Great About Being a Bank? Getting classified as a "bank" gives companies more access to our money. |
BusinessWeek
May 19, 2011
Bess Levin |
Movie Review: Too Big to Fail At last, the HBO movie, directed by Curtis Hanson, lends the financial crisis some Hollywood street cred |
The Motley Fool
December 30, 2008
Alyce Lomax |
2008: The Year of Moral Hazard Rewarding massive failure imperils us all. Our economic freedom is seriously endangered by current policies that prop up failing, mistake-ridden companies and industries. |
The Motley Fool
March 27, 2009
Matt Koppenheffer |
Does Anybody Have Any Idea What's Going On? The government is taking bold action, but do we really know what needs to be fixed? |
The Motley Fool
May 13, 2011
Morgan Housel |
Long Live Too Big to Fail A panel of experts weighs in on big banks and the economic crisis. |
Registered Rep.
April 13, 2009
Halah Touryalai |
Treasury Extend TARP to Life Insurers--If They Qualify The Treasury made an announcement last Wednesday that sent life insurance stocks soaring the following day. |
Bank Systems & Technology
November 11, 2008
Orla O'Sullivan |
TARP May Need Tech Vendors: Kashkari Intimates A technology system may automatically decide which of thousands of banks applying for direct government funding from the bailout fund get it. |
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. |
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
September 5, 2008
Alyce Lomax |
Ugly, Hideously Disfigured Abercrombie For a company so focused on prettiness, Abercrombie & Fitch is one unattractive stock. |
U.S. Banker
August 2006 |
Bernanke to Paulson: Listen, We're in Charge There's something intoxicating about the Greenspan-Rubin versus Bernanke-Paulson comparison. But the latter duo's performance will be as deeply affected by political pressures and world events as by intellect and good judgment. |
Reason
February 2009
Jacob Sullum |
The Reversals of Market Wisdom The TARP turnaround is not the only bewildering reversal of economic wisdom we've seen in recent months. Here are some of the more memorable ones. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
October 20, 2008
Chuck Saletta |
Paulson's Offer No Bank Could Refuse Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson sat the leaders of several of the biggest and most powerful banks in America together in a room and literally made them an offer they couldn't refuse. When life imitates "The Godfather," we'd all better watch out. |
