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The Motley Fool
December 8, 2010
Morgan Housel |
Citigroup Gets the Government Out of Its Hair One step closer to freedom.   |
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
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
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 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
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 20, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Finding Fairness for Banks Our view of the banking industry might soon change for the better. |
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
November 24, 2009
Matt Koppenheffer |
Maybe We Should Have Let the Banks Fail The bailout may have kept the financial system afloat, but are we setting ourselves up for more pain? |
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 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
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
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
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." |
BusinessWeek
September 30, 2010 |
Where Did the TARP Money Go? Love it or hate it, TARP didn't bust the bank. Here's where the money went. |
The Motley Fool
March 25, 2011
Isac Simon |
Small Banks Are Still Having a Financial Crisis Yet to recover from losses, smaller banks are adopting desperate measures to pay back federal debt. |
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
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
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
April 20, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Big Irony From a Big Bank JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon not only avoided the bulk of the financial disaster, but also spent years fortifying JPMorgan's balance sheet in case the Big One hit. But now, he makes one big hypocritical statement. |
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
September 30, 2008
Morgan Housel |
What Part of the Bailout Plan Did You Miss? Picking apart the new plan. |
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. |
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
September 22, 2008
Morgan Housel |
The Death of Wall Street Wall Street as it's been known for decades got a dramatic makeover this weekend as the remaining independent investment banks -- Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley -- gained approval from the Federal Reserve to be recognized as bank holding companies. |
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
December 4, 2008
Alex Dumortier |
Paulson's New Plan: A Cheap Mortgage for Every Home A new rescue plan for the economy would use nationalized mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to lower the 30-year fixed mortgage rate down as far as 4.5%, over a full point lower than the current level. |
The Motley Fool
August 6, 2008
Alex Dumortier |
Freddie Mac Is No Investment If you own Freddie Mac shares, the problem is that no one knows what their ultimate losses will be. And that's just one source of significant uncertainty surrounding Freddie and its big sister, Fannie Mae. |
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
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
October 9, 2008
Morgan Housel |
AIG's Second Bailout $85 billion here, $37.8 billion there ... but who's counting? |
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
October 2, 2009
Morgan Housel |
The Little Bailout That Couldn't Six months later, PPIP is still a pipsqueak. |
The Motley Fool
August 31, 2010
Jennifer Schonberger |
Ron Paul: Financial Reform Solved Nothing Rep. Ron Paul discusses reforming Fannie & Freddie and financial reform. |
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
October 20, 2009 |
Roundtable: Buy This Bank Three analysts, three bank picks. |
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
November 18, 2010
Morgan Housel |
Great News for Banks Another round of stress tests, and it's good news this time. |
The Motley Fool
November 11, 2008
Alex Dumortier |
Fannie, Freddie: "Keep the House!" Are taxpayers subsidizing deadbeat homeowners? |
The Motley Fool
February 23, 2009
Morgan Housel |
The Long, Slow, Death of Citigroup What the latest attempt to save the beleaguered bank means for the company, the market, and you. |
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
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
November 19, 2008
Rich Duprey |
The Trillion-Dollar Bailout No one knows how high the bailout will ultimately be. But that's certainly not a clarion call for opening the nation's purse strings, or for giving unprecedented authority to regulators to go on a spending spree. |
The Motley Fool
September 22, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Bank of America: One Step Closer to Freedom? The bank repays taxpayers for a bailout it claims it never really received. |
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
December 7, 2009
Alex Dumortier |
Citi's Race Against Time Bank of America's recent move has left Citi scrambling. |
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
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
September 17, 2008
Morgan Housel |
The Fall of AIG Why did the Fed ultimately decide to bail out AIG? |
