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The Motley Fool April 3, 2009 Morgan Housel	More Proof Banks Will Exploit This Bailout This takes abusing the system to a whole new level.
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 February 12, 2009 Alex Dumortier	The Government's "Bad Bank" Plan Will Fail The problem isn't the bad assets.
The Motley Fool August 8, 2008 Morgan Housel	Why the CDO Market Is Doomed Merrill's recent yard sale points to a market that's even uglier than many realize.
The Motley Fool February 9, 2009 Morgan Housel	We're From the Government, and We're Here to Help This week could bring the most government intervention into the economy we've ever seen. Here's what to look for.
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 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 September 16, 2008 Alex Dumortier	Wall Street's $70 Billion Facade In the wake of Lehman Brothers' failure this weekend, 10 major banks, including the remaining investment banks, are creating a $70 billion fund that any one of the participants can borrow from in a crunch.
The Motley Fool April 14, 2010 Matt Koppenheffer	Geithner Just Doesn't Get It Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner weighs in on the financial reform package.
The Motley Fool February 12, 2009 Morgan Housel	Which Banks Might Fail the Stress Test? How does the Treasury -- who didn't see this massacre coming in the first place -- expect to accurately predict what sort of massacre lies ahead by giving banks a "stress test"?
The Motley Fool September 30, 2009 Morgan Housel	Don't Do It, Goldman Some investors pine for a return to investment banking. Big mistake.
The Motley Fool September 11, 2009 Morgan Housel	Lehman Brothers and the Age of Stupidity Next Tuesday, Sept. 15, marks one year since Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy protection. One year later, we ask: What's changed?
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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 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 June 14, 2010 Russ Krull	The Government: Worst Investor Ever? Here's a closer look at the U.S. Treasury's recent investments.
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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.
The Motley Fool October 2, 2008 Alex Dumortier	Mark-to-Market Accounting: What You Should Know How does it work, and why is Congress pushing to suspend it?
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.
InternetNews September 15, 2008 Paul Shread	Stocks Plummet on Historic Wall Street Shakeup In a single day, half of Wall Street's major independent brokers disappeared - along with a whole lot of stock market capitalization.
The Motley Fool September 16, 2009 Alex Dumortier	1 Year Later: Is AIG a Buy? The real opportunity behind AIG. (Hint: it's all about the business.)
The Motley Fool March 10, 2009 Morgan Housel	Will This Thursday Change Banks' Fortunes? The death of "mark to market" could be a boon for the financial markets.
The Motley Fool March 12, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer	To Mark-to-Market, or Not to Mark-to-Market? As investors and traders keep trying to figure out whether the market has bottomed, or whether Citigroup's health report holds any truth, one question seems to pop up over and over again: Should we jettison mark-to-market accounting? That is the wrong question -- it's really all about leverage.
The Motley Fool February 27, 2009 Ivan Martchev	The Stimulus Won't Work Without Fixing the Banks Deficit spending has limited effects if the credit mechanism is broken.
The Motley Fool February 24, 2009 Anand Chokkavelu	Is It Time to Buy Banks? The banks will survive. They must. But -- and this is why temptation hasn't turned to action -- survival doesn't necessarily mean that shareholders will benefit.
The Motley Fool October 17, 2011 Morgan Housel	Shock and Awe Is Back in Banking Poof, confidence is gone. The entire market has sold off over the past few months, but no sector has been hit as hard as banks.
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 April 23, 2009 Richard Gibbons	Stocks That Will Benefit From This Disaster The companies that helped cause the current crisis may end up being the biggest beneficiaries.
BusinessWeek August 27, 2009 David Henry	Are Banks Playing It Too Safe? Critics say capital cushions at firms like Goldman are a drag on profits, and healthy banks need more leverage.
The Motley Fool April 24, 2009 Shannon Zimmerman	The Plot to Take Over America's Banks Why it could work; what you should do.
The Motley Fool June 12, 2008 Tom Hutchinson	The Award for Worst Bank Stock Goes to ... There has been much debate about whether we are through the worst of the credit crunch. In that spirit, let's choose the worst banking stock to own. Picking just one was no easy task.
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 April 7, 2010 William D. Cohan	The End of Wall Street? The sad truth is that Wall Street is much the same as it was before; it's Main Street that may never be the same again.
The Motley Fool March 24, 2009 Christopher Barker	$10.2 Trillion? A Mere Drop in the Bucket The tally zooms out to include monies under serious consideration for future outlays.
The Motley Fool April 21, 2008 Morgan Housel	Merrill Lynch: Revenue Flops, Income Drops, Stock Pops It looks as though the slump will continue into next year.
The Motley Fool October 27, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer	These Banks Are Scarier Than Halloween Little, if anything, has changed in banking, and that's a good reason to be scared.
The Motley Fool June 22, 2010 Ilan Moscovitz	How to Avoid the Next Lehman Brothers Don't go crazy with leverage. Two provisions in the financial-reform bill are critical to avoiding the next Lehman Brothers.
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The Motley Fool November 6, 2009 Alex Dumortier	Inside Goldman's Money Machine Goldman Sachs' quarterly report gives investors a peek at just how consistently profitable its trading activity was in the third quarter.
The Motley Fool September 15, 2008 Morgan Housel	Black Sunday on Wall Street This weekend will go down as one of the most spectacular unravelings in financial history.
The Motley Fool May 12, 2009 Ivan Martchev	Why the FASB Change Hurts Investors The Financial Accounting Standards Board changes allow companies to use significant judgment in estimating asset values ... the kind of judgment those companies lacked in acquiring those same assets. Why should we trust them now?
Bank Systems & Technology March 24, 2009 Maria Bruno-Britz	Geithner Says 'World is Watching' as U.S. Crafts Economic Recovery Plans Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner says reestablishing the right balance between stability and efficiency in the economic system is the government's obligation.
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