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The Motley Fool April 13, 2009 Morgan Housel	It's Payback Time for Goldman Sachs Getting rid of TARP funds could be a turning point for Goldman Sachs -- a TARP-free Goldman would be one of the most powerful Goldmans you've ever seen.
The Motley Fool April 15, 2009 Alex Dumortier	Is Wells Fargo $50 Billion Short? Wells Fargo will require an extra $50 billion in common equity if it is to repay its TARP investment and achieve a reasonable capital cushion.
The Motley Fool April 21, 2009 Morgan Housel	Invest in the Bailout! Nasdaq OMX Group has created an index that tracks every U.S.-listed institution that has received more than $1 billion in bailout funds, called the Government Relief Index.
The Motley Fool April 22, 2009 Morgan Housel	Citigroup's Wishful Thinking Paying back the TARP might be harder for some banks than you think.
The Motley Fool December 8, 2010 Morgan Housel	Citigroup Gets the Government Out of Its Hair One step closer to freedom.
The Motley Fool February 19, 2009 Morgan Housel	JPMorgan Chase Wants to Pay You Back More and more, banks are looking at ways to repay TARP funds.
The Motley Fool April 14, 2009 Morgan Housel	It's Good to Be Goldman A monster quarter proves Goldman Sachs can still get it done. Quarterly earnings just destroyed analyst expectations by more than 100%.
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 October 19, 2010 Dan Caplinger	How You Can Profit From TARP TARP warrants sold by the Treasury have a lot of appeal.
The Motley Fool March 31, 2009 Ivan Martchev	The Politics of Bank Dividends Is the government is hurting the banks that have our money by forcing dividend cuts?
The Motley Fool November 24, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer	Maybe We Should Have Let the Banks Fail The bailout may have kept the financial system afloat, but are we setting ourselves up for more pain?
The Motley Fool April 2, 2009 Morgan Housel	Banks Are Repaying Bailout Money. Hooray? Banks are starting to pay it back. Surprisingly, some aren't happy about it.
The Motley Fool March 24, 2009 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Is Warren Buffett AIG-Proof? Berkshire Hathaway is just two steps away from getting caught in AIG's mess.
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 February 26, 2009 Morgan Housel	How Much Money Will It Take to Save the Banks? NYU economic professor Nouriel Roubini estimates banks still need at least $1.4 trillion of new capital to get back on a sustainable path, suggesting therefore that the U.S. banking system is effectively insolvent in the aggregate.
The Motley Fool September 4, 2009 Alex Dumortier	Wells Fargo Wants to Return Its Cake and Eat It, Too What's the hurry here?
The Motley Fool July 21, 2010 Ilan Moscovitz	The Weekly Walk of Shame: Toothless Watchdogs And what we can (and should) do about them. Elizabeth Warren is the perfect candidate to break through the too-cozy relationship between Wall Street and toothless watchdogs.
The Motley Fool April 22, 2009 Morgan Housel	It Ain't Easy Being a Strong Bank Isn't it absurd that Citigroup and Bank of America are taking massive write-ups on the blowout of their credit spreads -- a sign that investors were betting on the possibility of default.
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 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 April 16, 2009 Morgan Housel	Solid News From JPMorgan Chase Another great quarter. So when will JPMorgan Chase follow through on its desire to repay the $25 billion of TARP capital?
HBS Working Knowledge June 22, 2009 Roger Thompson	"Too Big To Fail": Reining In Large Financial Firms The federal government should slap tough new regulations on all firms that pose "systemic risk" - the risk that a failure of one institution could wreak havoc across the entire financial system.
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 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 May 20, 2009 Morgan Housel	Finding Fairness for Banks Our view of the banking industry might soon change for the better.
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The Motley Fool December 7, 2009 Alex Dumortier	Citi's Race Against Time Bank of America's recent move has left Citi scrambling.
The Motley Fool February 4, 2009 Alex Dumortier	Will Obama Succeed Where Shareholders Have Failed? Delving beyond the headlines.
The Motley Fool February 22, 2011 Morgan Housel	Pardon Me, George Soros Clearing up misconceptions about TARP.
The Motley Fool July 1, 2010 Rich Smith	Keep Dumping This Bank! The U.S. bides its time when selling Citi shares.
The Motley Fool January 21, 2010 Morgan Housel	What's Clearly Wrong With the Bank Tax If the bank tax were presented as a way to compensate taxpayers for programs like TLGP, we'd have no problem. Instead, it's been presented as a way to recoup money that, to be fair, has already been recouped. That makes the whole thing look groundless and vengeful.
The Motley Fool November 13, 2009 Morgan Housel	Accountants Bail Out the Treasury Saving money that was never there. If Washington could focus on real ways to reduce the deficit -- not just saving money by not spending money that was never there -- we'd appreciate it.
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.
The Motley Fool April 13, 2009 Alyce Lomax	The ABCs of Screwball Economics We've had TARP (and the return of the TARP), we've had TALF, now we've got the PPIP. But is there any possibility that the government's actions are going to help our economic situation in the least?
The Motley Fool February 5, 2009 Morgan Housel	Goldman Sachs Tosses Back Bailout Money We don't need no stinkin' TARP funds! Keep 'em!
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 December 15, 2009 Alex Dumortier	Wells Fargo Goes Off the Cliff Once Bank of America and Citigroup announced that they were repaying the government's TARP investments, it was only matter of time before Wells Fargo did the same.
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 November 17, 2009 Morgan Housel	TARP's Problem Children Forty-six banks not only still hold funds, but aren't paying the preferred dividends they owe.
The Motley Fool October 20, 2009	Roundtable: Buy This Bank Three analysts, three bank picks.
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.
Registered Rep. February 11, 2009	Thank You Sir, May I Have Another?! Watch, Live, Wall Street CEOs Explain TARP Use To House Committee The House Financial Services Committee is giving Wall Street CEOs a chance to explain to U.S. taxpayers what they are doing with TARP funds.
The Motley Fool October 30, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer	World's Scariest Stocks: Goldman Sachs Goldman Sachs may be incredibly profitable, but its business sends shivers down spines.
The Motley Fool May 13, 2009 Morgan Housel	TARP's Next Victim: Small Banks Providing capital to banks that might simply feel left out of the party is tiptoeing dangerously close to socialized banking.
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 July 28, 2009 Alex Dumortier	As Loans Shrink, Which Banks Are Winning? Which of the "majors" is coming out on top?
The Motley Fool December 15, 2009 Selena Maranjian	The New Threat to Your Stock Portfolio Don't let dilution drag down its value.
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