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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 November 24, 2008 Morgan Housel |
Citigroup Comes Back for Seconds Barely more than a month after receiving a $25 billion injection from the Treasury, a one-week swoon in its stock price sent Citi limping back to the Treasury, hat in hand, for second helpings. |
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 30, 2008 Morgan Housel |
What Part of the Bailout Plan Did You Miss? Picking apart the new plan. |
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 November 14, 2008 Alyce Lomax |
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 December 3, 2008 Alex Dumortier |
GAO to Paulson: Get Your TARP in Order The Government Accountability Office chides the Treasury Department for failing to address a number of key issues with respect to the Troubled Asset Relief Program. |
The Motley Fool November 7, 2008 Mac Greer |
Fool Video: Obama's Pick for Treasury Secretary Who should President-elect Obama pick as Treasury Secretary? Should JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon get the nod? Should Obama stick with current Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson? This video discusses this question. |
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." |
The Motley Fool February 5, 2009 Morgan Housel |
Vegas Proves Reckless for Wells Fargo Wells Fargo abruptly canceled an employee gathering in Las Vegas earlier this week after various media outlets and politicians stomped their feet in objection. |
The Motley Fool June 9, 2009 Morgan Housel |
Payback Time Has Come Ten of the largest banks to receive TARP funds -- the taxpayer money associated with last fall's $700 billion bank bailout -- have been approved to repay the Treasury in full, plus interest. |
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 January 5, 2009 Rich Duprey |
GMAC Steers Taxpayers Wrong Uncle Sam has given them an inch, what's to prevent GM from taking a mile? |
The Motley Fool October 3, 2008 Morgan Housel |
Fool Poll: The Fight for Wachovia Citi's out, Wells Fargo's in. For now. |
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 November 19, 2008 Rich Duprey |
The Trillion-Dollar Bailout No one knows how high the bailout will ultimately be. But that's certainly not a clarion call for opening the nation's purse strings, or for giving unprecedented authority to regulators to go on a spending spree. |
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. |
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 October 14, 2008 Morgan Housel |
Paulson Backs Up the Truck After weeks of uncertainty, banks get exactly what they need. |
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. |
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. |
BusinessWeek February 4, 2010 James Pressley |
The Meltdown According to Hank Paulson How the former Treasury Secretary, exhausted and careworn, labored to save the financial system -- and made plenty of mistakes. |
The Motley Fool May 26, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer |
Banks Are Getting a Great Deal at Our Expense! The Treasury may be giving TARP recipients a sweet deal that will keep money out of taxpayers' pockets. |
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. |
BusinessWeek January 29, 2009 |
On the Dole Bank of America, which agreed to buy Merrill Lynch in September, has been a prime beneficiary of the bailout. |
The Motley Fool December 2, 2008 Morgan Housel |
The Very Real Cost of Doing Nothing You're right: $3.9 trillion is really just a drop in the bucket. |
BusinessWeek October 28, 2010 Robert Schmidt |
Living Nicely Off the Crumbs of TARP Private companies also benefited from the financial bailout. |
The Motley Fool June 14, 2010 Russ Krull |
The Government: Worst Investor Ever? Here's a closer look at the U.S. Treasury's recent investments. |
The Motley Fool March 31, 2011 Morgan Housel |
Geithner: Should He Stay or Should He Go? Geithner hasn't commented on whether he'd be willing to serve a second term as Treasury secretary. The question is whether he deserves one or not. |
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 October 2, 2008 Morgan Housel |
Bailout: One Down, One to Go The Senate passed it -- all eyes turn back to the House. |
The Motley Fool October 22, 2009 Morgan Housel |
Farewell, Dear Bailout Almost a year to the day after the Treasury dumped tens of billions into banks, the heart of the $700 billion bank bailout called TARP is coming to an end. How did it do? |
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 August 26, 2009 Morgan Housel |
Small Victories for Taxpayers It's hard to argue that we haven't come a long way since the days of last fall, when saying the TARP plan would cost taxpayers $700 billion drew so much attention. It wasn't true then, and it's undeniably false now. |
The Motley Fool November 25, 2008 David Lee Smith |
Bring Down the Hammer on a Builders' Bailout The automakers haven't succeeded -- yet -- but the builders want your help. |
The Motley Fool November 26, 2008 Alex Dumortier |
The $800 Billion Pick-Me-Up for Consumer Credit The central bank announces an $800 billion support package aimed at spurring mortgage lending and consumer credit, including car, credit card, and small business loans. |
The Motley Fool February 10, 2009 Morgan Housel |
Will This Plan Save the Banks? Treasury Secretary Geithner discloses revamped government plans -- or lack thereof. |
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. |
BusinessWeek September 30, 2010 Rebecca Christie |
TARP Didn't Bust the Bank The much-maligned bailout program made money on most Wall Street investments and cost less than expected. |
The Motley Fool December 11, 2008 Morgan Housel |
Budget Deficit Goes Into Overdrive There's something terribly ironic about a group of Congressmen and -women chastising auto company executives for driving their companies into the ground, when the state of Uncle Sam's balance sheet looks like it does today. |
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? |
The Motley Fool February 24, 2009 Morgan Housel |
JPMorgan Hunkers Down JPMorgan's cut is more practical than desperate, an attempt to position the company to repay TARP as soon as is prudent, and still maintain a strong capital position. |
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. |
Registered Rep. July 24, 2008 |
Uncle Sam: Give Us A New Bubble The debate about government's roll in the economy just got stoked big time, what with the recent news that Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson wants to shore up Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac with taxpayer dollars. |
The Motley Fool November 6, 2008 Alex Dumortier |
JPMorgan: 1, Taxpayers: -$2.7 Billion The bad news, for U.S. taxpayers at least, is that the value of Bear's portfolio has fallen since March. The Federal Reserve recently announced that it (or you the taxpayer, effectively) has a $2.7 billion paper loss on its commitment. |
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 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. |
The Motley Fool November 18, 2010 Morgan Housel |
Great News for Banks Another round of stress tests, and it's good news this time. |
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 13, 2009 Morgan Housel |
Hurry Up and Nationalize the Banks Now that last fall's all-out panic has subsided, we need a long-term solution to getting our largest banks back on track. |