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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
November 25, 2009
Matt Koppenheffer |
5 Banksgiving Day Turkeys Some banking CEO's who contributed to bad financial behavior of the past year. |
The Motley Fool
November 17, 2008
Alex Dumortier |
Bank Execs Forgo Bonuses, but Does It Matter? Goldman Sachs announces that seven of its top executives, including CEO Lloyd Blankfein, will forgo bonuses this year. Expect others to follow. |
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 18, 2009
Matt Koppenheffer |
Banker Pay Is a Huge Canard Banker pay has been a big focus lately, but it probably shouldn't be. |
The Motley Fool
December 8, 2010
Morgan Housel |
Citigroup Gets the Government Out of Its Hair One step closer to freedom. |
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
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
June 24, 2009
Alyce Lomax |
Citigroup: No Bonus? No Problem! The people at Citigroup aren't getting any bonuses. However, it looks like some of them are getting massive pay raises instead. |
The Motley Fool
July 14, 2009
Matt Koppenheffer |
Nothing's Changed in Banking The recent upending of the financial world seems to have yielded few results. |
The Motley Fool
December 16, 2008
Dave Mock |
A Big Upgrade for AIG While it may be hard to believe, more top-performing CAPS members are turning bullish on American International Group these days, exhibiting optimism for the future. |
The Motley Fool
September 16, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Goldman Feels the Heat Though it wasn't a terrible quarter for Goldman Sachs, it's become apparent that banking is a terrible industry right now. And after a crazy week, some question even Goldman Sachs' future. |
The Motley Fool
February 6, 2009
Matt Koppenheffer |
I Was an Evil Investment Banker Wall Street bonuses have run afoul of the government. Should Uncle Sam step in and regulate? |
The Motley Fool
September 22, 2008
Anand Chokkavelu |
Fool Blog: Last Week's Top 10 Financial Shocks A whole pile of stunning news combined last week to become the biggest financial story of the past 50 years. |
The Motley Fool
January 28, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Worst Stock for 2009: Citigroup Which 10 companies should you keep out of your portfolio? Find out in our special series on the Worst Stocks for 2009. Here, take a look at why Citigroup may not even be a stock next year. |
The Motley Fool
August 6, 2010
Jordan DiPietro |
Wall Street Bonuses Are Back! Wall Street is back on a hiring and spending spree -- does it matter? |
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
January 15, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Bank of America Comes Back for Seconds After biting off more than it could chew with its acquisition of Merrill Lynch, Bank of America is heading back to the bailout line for a second helping. |
The Motley Fool
September 22, 2009
Alyce Lomax |
CEO Pay and the Parasite Economy Uncle Sam bailed out a slew of financial firms under its Troubled Asset Relief Program a year ago -- but the CEOs of these corporate welfare cases haven't exactly suffered since then. |
The Motley Fool
January 22, 2010
Rich Duprey |
Obama's Glass Ceiling Resurrecting the Depression-era Glass-Steagall Act won't solve anything. |
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
June 30, 2010
Matt Koppenheffer |
More Proof That Wall Street Is Winning The financial reform bill that a congressional committee put the finishing touches on last week was proof enough that Wall Street, not Washington, has the upper hand in this postmeltdown world. |
The Motley Fool
January 16, 2009
Matt Koppenheffer |
Is Moral Hazard Still a Bogeyman? Should we still fear moral hazard? The Philly Fed president thinks so. |
The Motley Fool
November 18, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Sharks Circle the Bailout Fund Egad! The city of San Jose wants a cut. We have to draw the line. |
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 18, 2011
Avishek Mishra |
Should Wall Street Bonuses Be Scrapped? Banks walk a tightrope as SEC proposes regulatory oversight over executive bonuses. |
The Motley Fool
October 9, 2008
Morgan Housel |
AIG's Second Bailout $85 billion here, $37.8 billion there ... but who's counting? |
The Motley Fool
March 16, 2010
Matt Koppenheffer |
How to Fail at Financial Reform Real financial reform still seems to be something of a pipe dream. What we got from Sen. Chris Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, fell far short. |
The Motley Fool
September 29, 2008
Morgan Housel |
The Bailout: Myths, Half-Truths, and Inconsistencies Just the facts, ma'am, just the facts. |
The Motley Fool
December 14, 2009
Anand Chokkavelu |
Roundtable: The Future of Banking Where Motley Fool analysts see banking in 10 years. |
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
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
October 28, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Wedding Bells for Goldman and Citigroup? The next step for the financial industry looks as though it'll be massive consolidation. |
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 6, 2008
Alex Dumortier |
JPMorgan: 1, Taxpayers: -$2.7 Billion The bad news, for U.S. taxpayers at least, is that the value of Bear's portfolio has fallen since March. The Federal Reserve recently announced that it (or you the taxpayer, effectively) has a $2.7 billion paper loss on its commitment. |
The Motley Fool
October 30, 2008 |
The Motley Fool Crisis Survival Kit With a calm head and a smart game plan, each of us can get through the current crisis. Read on for advice. |
The Motley Fool
February 26, 2010
Anand Chokkavelu |
Roundtable: The Best Bailed-Out Bet The best buy out of companies that have received government aid. |
Registered Rep.
July 30, 2009
John Churchill |
Pressure to Reign In Executive Compensation Grows New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo released a report today on the compensation practices of the banking industry. Top on the list of concerns was the compensation structure at larger banks. |
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
November 9, 2007
Seth Jayson |
Bernanke's Plan to Pick Your Pocket Federal Reserve Chief Ben Bernanke promotes an idea that would have taxpayers bail out the jumbo mortgage market. |
The Motley Fool
October 20, 2009 |
Roundtable: Buy This Bank Three analysts, three bank picks. |
The Motley Fool
January 2, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Sizing Up Banking's New Giants Didn't we learn our lesson about letting banks become "too big to fail"? What's left of the banking industry after recent consolidations is becoming bigger and potentially more complex once again. |
The Motley Fool
August 31, 2009
Matt Koppenheffer |
The Best Investor Around: the U.S. Government? The government is reaping profits on its banking investments. But hold the confetti. |
The Motley Fool
September 22, 2008
Anand Chokkavelu |
Fool Poll: The Biggest Financial Shock of the Week Last weeks financial stories were amazing. Crazy rumors trumped by crazier reality. Which one of these made you gasp the loudest? |
The Motley Fool
February 20, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Bank Stocks Obliterated Some of our largest banks now trade at their lowest levels since the early 1980s. |
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
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 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
December 31, 2008
Katrina Chan |
Reviewing 2008, Predicting 2009 The Fool looks back at the year that was, and ahead to the year to be. |
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. |
