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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 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.
BusinessWeek December 17, 2009 Rich Miller	Business Outlook: When Growth Doesn't Pay the Bills The recession may be over, but with unemployment remaining stubbornly high, the U.S. could be facing the same jobless sclerosis that plagued Europe in the '80s
The Motley Fool June 2, 2010 Jennifer Schonberger	Are Small Businesses Still Struggling for Credit? There's an ugly outlook for U.S. unemployment: The Federal Reserve is projecting an unemployment rate of 9.1% to 9.5% for the end of this year, and 8.1% to 8.5% by the end of 2011. And much of that will come down to small businesses.
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The Motley Fool March 20, 2008 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Bear Bails Out Bernanke The Fed Chairman can't win. If he slashes rates, Bernanke is a bum. If he bails out an iconic investment banker, he's destroying our financial system.
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The Motley Fool October 23, 2009 Morgan Housel	American Express Turns a Corner Big improvements in credit quality show this company's still got some life it in.
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