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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 September 15, 2008 Chokkavelu & Richards	The Biggest Financial Story of the Past 50 Years This weekend's news is bigger than the dot-com bust and bigger than Black Monday in 1987. Let's process this weekend's wild Wall Street news.
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.
CFO January 1, 2009 Scott Leibs	The Year That Was A look back at the lows and ultra-lows of an all-too-historic year.
InternetNews September 18, 2008 Paul Shread	Stocks Soar on Hopes for Subprime Solution The stock market had its best day in six years Thursday on reports that the government could dust off an old solution to the financial crisis on Wall Street, while Oracle had surprisingly good news for the tech sector after the close.
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.
U.S. Banker October 2009 Barbara A. Rehm	What if More Women Ran Banks? Many of the women being honored in this issue say female CEOs would have had more diverse management teams that would have reined in the institution long before losses began piling up like leaves in the woods on a windy fall day.
InternetNews September 15, 2008 Kenneth Corbin	How Will Wall Street's Woes Affect IT? Merrill's down, Lehman's out and the troubles continue for the nation's largest financial houses. One analyst sees opportunity in crisis for the IT industry, however.
Insurance & Technology December 8, 2008 Anthony O'Donnell	Insurance Technology Outlook 2009: Sudden Change Though the financial services industry has seen a precipitous change in the business environment and will adopt austerity measures, insurers are likely to be opportunistic in their technology investments.
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 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.
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 15, 2008 Tom Hutchinson	Freddie Gets a Boost Freddie Mac's stock soars on news of capital raising.
On Wall Street November 1, 2008 Judith Schoolman	5 Questions with Mark Zandi The co-founder and chief economist of Moody's Economy.com discusses the recent financial shocks.
Investment Advisor October 2008 James J. Green	Wall Street Stunned Wall Street is not what it used to be, for good or ill. Culminating a months-long period of market volatility and uncertainty two marquee names in financial services ceased to exist.
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.
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BusinessWeek April 7, 2011 Charlie Rose	Charlie Rose Talks to Bob Diamond of Barclays The CEO of Barclays talks about the need for stimulus-free job growth -- and recalls the circumstances that drove Lehman into his arms.
The Motley Fool September 19, 2008 Chuck Saletta	Will the Government Destroy American Capitalism? The law of unintended consequences is still stronger than any bailout package or regulation, and the more strongly the government intervenes, the bigger the problems it may cause.
BusinessWeek November 19, 2007 Goldstein & Henry	On the Subprime Endangered List Which CEO will be catching subprime heat next now that Citigroup's Chuck Prince is out? Bear Stearns' Jimmy Cayne may be vulnerable.
Reason January 2009 Katherine Mangu-Ward	Is Deregulation to Blame? The new Washington consensus says "yes." The facts on the ground say something different.
Reason January 2009 Michael Flynn	Anatomy of a Breakdown Concerted government policy helped trigger the financial meltdown -- and will almost certainly extend it.
Finance & Development September 2010 Ashok Vir Bhatia	After the Supernova Crisis management lessons from the IMF's assessment of the U.S. financial system.
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The Motley Fool November 28, 2008 Dan Caplinger	Last Call for Smart Homeowners The Fed's recent move has triggered a sharp downtick in mortgage rates. If you want to refinance, it may be now or never.
The Motley Fool November 26, 2008 Mac Greer	Michael Lewis on Wall Street's Future What will Wall Street look like in five years? A conversation with Michael Lewis, editor of the new anthology Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity, in this video.
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Bank Systems & Technology July 23, 2008 Orla O'Sullivan	Fannie, Freddie Troubles May Have Been Avoided If Technology Was Used Properly As observers watch cash-strapped Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac being propped up by the government, many wonder how technology failed to save the agencies and the lenders supplying mortgages to them from being left holding the bag on so many bad loans.
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BusinessWeek November 12, 2007 Matthew Goldstein	Wall Street's Next Worry The credit crisis is spreading from Wall Street to a less well known corner of the financial world, that of the bond insurers. An obscure company called ACA Capital might spark the explosion.
Bank Systems & Technology January 8, 2009 Christine Barry	Banks Must Take Advantage of Opportunities Where They Find Them Lenders and borrowers have felt the effects as the subprime crisis has evolved into a credit crisis. The result has been strategy changes for many banks, and a greater emphasis than ever before on growing deposits.
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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HBS Working Knowledge February 24, 2011 Sean Silverthorne	What's Government's Role in Regulating Home Purchase Financing? The private market should be the main supplier of mortgage credit, but it should be carefully monitored using new approaches to regulating mortgage securitization. The government should play a role of "guarantor of last resort" in periods of crisis.
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