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The Motley Fool November 26, 2008 Christopher Barker	$3.9 Trillion Was a Drop in the Bucket Keeping a tally of total outlays puts the unfathomable scale of the crisis in context.
The Motley Fool February 19, 2009 Christopher Barker	$8.6 Trillion Was a Drop in the Bucket Keeping a tally of total potential outlays puts the scale of the crisis in context.
The Motley Fool January 28, 2009 Morgan Housel	Wells Fargo Proves No Bank Is Immune Wells is one of the strongest banks around, if not the strongest, but in the fourth quarter they didn't even come close to meeting expectations.
The Motley Fool March 24, 2009 Christopher Barker	$10.2 Trillion? A Mere Drop in the Bucket The tally zooms out to include monies under serious consideration for future outlays.
Finance & Development December 2010	Stimulus Worked Without the quick and massive policy response, the Great Recession might still plague the United States.
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BusinessWeek April 8, 2010	Book Excerpt: Roger Lowenstein's "The End of Wall Street" The Street isn't dead - but a certain laissez-faire idea of it is. So argues Lowenstein in his new book.
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Reason July 2009 Randazzo et al.	Turning Japanese Japan's post-bubble policies produced a "lost decade." So why is President Obama emulating them?
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BusinessWeek June 17, 2010 Woellert & Stein	Rising Tab for the Mortgage Mess The bailout of Fannie and Freddie could reach $1 trillion
The Motley Fool August 11, 2011 Dan Radovsky	This Was Once America's Most Hated Company But AIG may turn out to be quite a bargain.
The Motley Fool August 25, 2011 Shubh Datta	MGIC's Woes Multiply on Rising Mortgage Losses The United States' biggest mortgage insurer reported a second-quarter loss recently as loan defaults jumped.
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Finance & Development December 1, 2008 Mohamed A. El-Erian	A Crisis to Remember The current crisis is a defining moment for the global financial system and, by implication, for relationships between countries.
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The Motley Fool September 19, 2008 Chuck Saletta	Will the Government Destroy American Capitalism? The law of unintended consequences is still stronger than any bailout package or regulation, and the more strongly the government intervenes, the bigger the problems it may cause.
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Finance & Development December 1, 2008 Charles Collyns	The Crisis through the Lens of History The current financial crisis is ferocious, but looking at history shows the way to avoid another Great Depression.
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Finance & Development September 2009 Carlo Cottarelli & Jose Vinals	Looking Ahead Countries must begin now to devise economic strategies to accompany the recovery.
Finance & Development June 2010 Linda Yueh	A Stronger China China can emerge from the crisis stronger if it increases domestic demand and promotes global integration.
BusinessWeek September 3, 2009 James C. Cooper	Business Outlook: The Budding Recovery Has Staying Power Recent business austerity is boosting profits and the need to expand, and rising global growth is lifting exports, all while massive policy efforts continue to support demand.
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.
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Reason March 2009 Veronique de Rugy	Dissatisfaction Guaranteed The government has decided to encourage more lenders to take more chances by guaranteeing yet more loans to high-risk borrowers. The only guarantee for these loans is that our children will be paying billions to cover the losses.
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