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Registered Rep. May 8, 2009 Kristen French	Morgan Dresses Up For TARP Exit The firm raised $8 billion in new capital on Friday through the sale of debt and equity, over 50 percent more than it announced on Thursday.
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.
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 November 18, 2010 Morgan Housel	Great News for Banks Another round of stress tests, and it's good news this time.
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 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 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 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 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 December 16, 2008 Morgan Housel	Bernanke's Out of Bullets Ben Bernanke has spent the past year and a half firing as many bullets as possible to prop up the economy. After lowering the target on the Fed funds rate to a range of zero to 0.25%, he's finally out of ammunition.
The Motley Fool May 19, 2009 Alex Dumortier	Time Is Running Out for Small and Mid-Sized Banks Stress testing the entire U.S. banking system.
Registered Rep. January 12, 2009 Halah Touryalai	Citi Grabs a Lifeline, Morgan Stages a Coup Despite a $45 billion capital injection from the government in 2008, Citi is in dire enough need of capital that it is planning to spin off its retail brokerage operation, Smith Barney, according to reports, in a joint venture with cross-town rival Morgan Stanley
Bank Director 1st Quarter 2010 Jack Milligan	A Look at the Hill and Beyond Steve Bartlett, head of a financial services lobbying group, talks about political gyrations in Congress and the concerns all banks ought to be having about the impact of banking reform on the U.S. economy.
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.
U.S. Banker March 2009 Rosta & Fest	Pulling a Plan from Under the TARP While the unraveling of the financial sector demanded quick government response, they may have thrown things at the wall without thinking the measures through.
The Motley Fool December 8, 2010 Morgan Housel	Citigroup Gets the Government Out of Its Hair One step closer to freedom.
The Motley Fool April 19, 2010 Russ Krull	Citi's $5 Flirt Does Citigroup's bounce to $5 make it more attractive?
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 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 4, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer	Stick a Fork in Free Market Banking Let's stop fooling ourselves when talking about potential solutions. The U.S. banking system is not a free market system. Efforts to free up banks to do whatever they like have only allowed insiders to profit while the rest of the country bears the risks.
The Motley Fool December 7, 2009 Alex Dumortier	Citi's Race Against Time Bank of America's recent move has left Citi scrambling.
Bank Systems & Technology October 14, 2008 Maria Bruno-Britz	U.S. Govt. Unveils Bank Buy-in Plan Also, Treasury announced it will apply compensation restrictions to the most highly compensated executives down the corporate ladder.
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.
Registered Rep. January 9, 2009	Citi: What Sandy Built, Pandit Will Dismantle? The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Citigroup has put Smith Barney up for sale -- or a joint venture.
The Motley Fool April 12, 2007 Dan Caplinger	Stop Listening to the Fed Trying to understand the Federal Reserve will just get you confused. If you have a solid long-term investment plan, you shouldn't use news about the Fed to guide your trading decisions. If the noise will distract you, it's best just to tune it out.
Bank Director 2nd Quarter 2009 John R. Engen	Fear of the Unknown Receiving government funding right now is a little akin to the devil you don't know.
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 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.
Registered Rep. February 25, 2009 Christina Mucciolo	News Roundup: AIG Is Keeping It(Self) Together, Merrill Made Another Gaffe, Bernanke Says No To Nationalization, Banks Get Physicals AIG is no longer planning to sell businesses to pay back the government's loan... Merrill Lynch says it seriously underestimated 2008 losses... Speculation about the nationalization of banks... Obama's speech offers few specifics...
Registered Rep. January 27, 2009 Kristen French	Citi: Suffering Some Serious "Jet Nag" The fancy corporate jet Citi ordered a few years back for 2009 has now been Cancelled.
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 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 May 28, 2010 Rich Smith	Dump This Bank! U.S. government sheds Citi shares by the billions, but in baby steps.
The Motley Fool April 11, 2008 Chuck Saletta	The Next Unsustainable Asset Bubble As long as the first response to any financial stress is a quick infusion of cheap money, the formation of the next bubble is a virtual certainty.
The Motley Fool February 26, 2008 Morgan Housel	Bernanke's Quiet Bailout By using the term auction facility, Ben Bernanke was able prevent panic and simultaneously keep the banking system sound. Did he do the right thing?
On Wall Street March 1, 2010	Five Questions with Timothy Ryan Jr. Ryan held senior positions in the industry, from the vice chairman level at JPMorgan to Director of the Office of Thrift Supervision, where he helped in the S&L cleanup. He talks about today's regulatory needs.
The Motley Fool May 6, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer	Will Banks Plummet Tomorrow? Regulators are getting ready to reveal stress test results. What will this mean for bank stocks?
Finance & Development December 2010	Stimulus Worked Without the quick and massive policy response, the Great Recession might still plague the United States.
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 June 10, 2009 Maria Bartiromo	Vikram Pandit of Citi: Man on a Tightrope Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit discusses the pressure from Washington, repaying TARP money, and downsizing the behemoth Sandy Weill built.
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 July 1, 2010 Rich Smith	Keep Dumping This Bank! The U.S. bides its time when selling Citi shares.
The Motley Fool May 11, 2009 Morgan Housel	Banks Are Selling Stock. Should You Be Buying? With shares up this much and sentiment as high as it's been in recent memory, it's probably not time to buy bank stocks.
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 August 1, 2008 Rich Duprey	Bernanke's Bid to Rule Zimbabwe If the Fed chairman and Treasury secretary have their way, we're gonna need $1 billion Zimbabwean notes.
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 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?
U.S. Banker January 2011 Scott Anderson	Short-Term Gain, Long-Term Pain The Fed s plan to buy $600 billion of Treasury bonds might boost demand for loans, but this latest round of quantitative easing could hamper bank profitability and continue to restrain the economic recovery.
U.S. Banker December 2009 Steven Sloan	Exec Pay: So Much for Transparency If the Fed views excessive compensation as a broad threat to the financial system, why is it keeping its review of pay practices under wraps?