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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.
Bank Director 3rd Quarter 2010 Jonathan Joseph	Return of the Fortress Balance Sheet Since traditional noncumulative perpetual preferred stock is treated as Tier 1 capital, it should be considered to improve capital strength.
The Motley Fool September 15, 2009 Morgan Housel	Citigroup Wants Taxpayers Out of Its Hair What's that mean for shareholders? Not much.
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 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 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 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 March 4, 2009 Morgan Housel	Is Bank of America the Next to Crumble? While comparing B of A to Citigroup is hardly apples to apples, the trend is the same: Banks with dangerously low tangible common equity ratios must raise common capital lest even moderate future losses wipe out shareholders.
The Motley Fool March 24, 2009 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Is Warren Buffett AIG-Proof? Berkshire Hathaway is just two steps away from getting caught in AIG's mess.
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 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 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 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 May 20, 2009 Morgan Housel	Finding Fairness for Banks Our view of the banking industry might soon change for the better.
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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 March 21, 2011 Dan Caplinger	Why You May Never See Another Deal Like This Berkshire shareholders get some bad news. Goldman Sachs announced that it was electing to redeem the preferred shares it had issued to Berkshire in September 2008 after the collapse of Lehman Brothers during the financial crisis.
Financial Advisor August 2012 Alan Lavine	Preferred Stock Market Going Through Changes Regulatory changes may lead to a dramatic fall in issuance. If you plan to invest client assets in preferred stocks, be sure to put on your financial analyst's hat.
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.
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.
The Motley Fool August 24, 2009 Morgan Housel	Understanding Citigroup Citigroup's stock will be highly diluted when the preferred shares convert to common, and it has a lot of problems compared to other banks with similar market cap.
The Motley Fool November 13, 2009 Morgan Housel	Accountants Bail Out the Treasury Saving money that was never there. If Washington could focus on real ways to reduce the deficit -- not just saving money by not spending money that was never there -- we'd appreciate it.
The Motley Fool February 10, 2009 Morgan Housel	Will This Plan Save the Banks? Treasury Secretary Geithner discloses revamped government plans -- or lack thereof.
The Motley Fool November 26, 2008 Morgan Housel	Don't Even Think About Buying Bank Stocks The obvious risk that still lies in these common bank stocks is just ridiculous. Take a look at: Citigroup... Bank of America... JPMorgan...Wells Fargo... Goldman Sachs... Morgan Stanley...
The Motley Fool January 28, 2010 Russ Krull	How Taxing Will Bank Taxes Be? Proposed fee hits some banks hard.
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 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 10, 2010 Morgan Housel	A Short History of Bank Failures Why the financial system is more vulnerable now than ever before.
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The Motley Fool January 7, 2009 Morgan Housel	4 Things Obama Can Do to Help the Economy The new administration is already up to their ears in suggestions, but here are four more changes and ideas that should be considered to bolster the economy for the long term.
The Motley Fool February 24, 2009 Anand Chokkavelu	Is It Time to Buy Banks? The banks will survive. They must. But -- and this is why temptation hasn't turned to action -- survival doesn't necessarily mean that shareholders will benefit.
The Motley Fool December 30, 2009 Russ Krull	Back to Square One for Wells Fargo Now that Wells Fargo has repaid TARP, what can investors expect?
The Motley Fool February 4, 2010 Chris Jones	Class of the Titans Can preferred stock quench investors' thirst for yield?
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 14, 2008 Morgan Housel	Paulson Backs Up the Truck After weeks of uncertainty, banks get exactly what they need.