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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 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 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 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 December 8, 2010 Morgan Housel	Citigroup Gets the Government Out of Its Hair One step closer to freedom.
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.
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 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 July 1, 2010 Rich Smith	Keep Dumping This Bank! The U.S. bides its time when selling Citi shares.
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 June 19, 2009 Morgan Housel	Where Did All the Bailout Money Go? Now that several banks have repaid taxpayers about $70 billion of the $700 billion bank bailout know as TARP, a common question is: "Great, now where's the other $630 billion?" The answer isn't as clear-cut as many may assume.
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 May 28, 2010 Rich Smith	Dump This Bank! U.S. government sheds Citi shares by the billions, but in baby steps.
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 May 20, 2009 Morgan Housel	Finding Fairness for Banks Our view of the banking industry might soon change for the better.
The Motley Fool February 22, 2011 Morgan Housel	Pardon Me, George Soros Clearing up misconceptions about TARP.
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 December 11, 2008 Morgan Housel	Budget Deficit Goes Into Overdrive There's something terribly ironic about a group of Congressmen and -women chastising auto company executives for driving their companies into the ground, when the state of Uncle Sam's balance sheet looks like it does today.
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 September 30, 2009 Morgan Housel	Bank Buybacks Gone Bad Wall Street's biggest investors lost billions -- by buying back their own shares.
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 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 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 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 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?
The Motley Fool January 13, 2010 Morgan Housel	A Big Quarter for Bank Stocks What should you expect? Here's what I'm looking for.
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 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 November 29, 2010 Russ Krull	Betting on Bailouts Using the recent U.S. bailout track record as a guide for investing in Europe.
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.
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.
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The Motley Fool December 9, 2009 Russ Krull	This Treasury Auction Warrants Your Interest Some banks have repurchased their TARP preferred stock, but not the warrants they issued to the government, leaving them to be auctioned off.
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 October 14, 2008 Morgan Housel	Paulson Backs Up the Truck After weeks of uncertainty, banks get exactly what they need.
The Motley Fool August 5, 2009 Morgan Housel	Goldman Sachs to Employees: Pretend This Hurts Here's your bonus! Now please, oh please, don't spend it.
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 November 18, 2008 Morgan Housel	$700 Billion Bailout? Not So Fast Only $290 billion of the original $350 billion have been used so far, and Hank Paulson has said he's unlikely to use the remaining $410 billion, at least for the time being.
U.S. Banker February 2009 Michael Sisk	Looking Under the TARP Government oversight panels finally get up and running and take a closer look at the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program -- and aren't happy with what they see.
The Motley Fool July 15, 2009 Morgan Housel	Bank of America vs. Taxpayers Taxpayers offered their help. Now Bank of America doesn't want to pay up.
The Motley Fool February 10, 2010 Morgan Housel	5 Articles You've Got to Read Random brilliance from around the Net: Get ready for a double-dip recession... Interview with David Wessel... How Visa, Using Card Fees, Dominates a Market... In Praise of Mammoth Deficits... Paulson Tells Buffett Banks to Repay 'Every Penny'...
The Motley Fool November 24, 2008 Morgan Housel	Citigroup Comes Back for Seconds Barely more than a month after receiving a $25 billion injection from the Treasury, a one-week swoon in its stock price sent Citi limping back to the Treasury, hat in hand, for second helpings.
The Motley Fool December 8, 2009 Dan Caplinger	This Is Great News for Investors The public is tired of Wall Street, but that's good for investors. Read on to see why.
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 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.
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 September 15, 2009 Morgan Housel	Citigroup Wants Taxpayers Out of Its Hair What's that mean for shareholders? Not much.
The Motley Fool May 3, 2010 Dan Caplinger	This Ticking Time Bomb Will Cost Trillions We're getting too used to low interest rates.
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 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.