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The Motley Fool February 27, 2009 Morgan Housel	Citigroup Unravels Partial nationalization of the struggling bank becomes reality, but it's not nearly enough to stop the bleeding. Here's why.
The Motley Fool April 20, 2009 Morgan Housel	The Truth Behind Bank of America's Earnings Bank of America releases earnings that, at first glance, look too good to be true. To be frank, they are.
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 January 16, 2009 Morgan Housel	Bank of America Needs a Regime Change After news of a $2.39 billion quarterly loss and the announcement that dividends are all but history Bank of America investors now have sincere reasons to question the capability of CEO Ken Lewis.
The Motley Fool February 26, 2009 Morgan Housel	How Much Money Will It Take to Save the Banks? NYU economic professor Nouriel Roubini estimates banks still need at least $1.4 trillion of new capital to get back on a sustainable path, suggesting therefore that the U.S. banking system is effectively insolvent in the aggregate.
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 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 February 12, 2009 Morgan Housel	Which Banks Might Fail the Stress Test? How does the Treasury -- who didn't see this massacre coming in the first place -- expect to accurately predict what sort of massacre lies ahead by giving banks a "stress test"?
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 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 15, 2009 Alex Dumortier	Is Wells Fargo $50 Billion Short? Wells Fargo will require an extra $50 billion in common equity if it is to repay its TARP investment and achieve a reasonable capital cushion.
The Motley Fool April 28, 2009 Alex Dumortier	It's Official (Almost): BofA, Citi Need Capital The government's preliminary results indicate that both these banks have capital shortfalls that need to be stopped up by raising common equity levels.
The Motley Fool June 12, 2009 Morgan Housel	What's Next for Citigroup? What does the conversion to common stock from preferred stock mean for Citigroup? A few things -- some good, some bad, some potentially disastrous.
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 April 23, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer	Conspiracy at Bank of America? News breaks that Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis was supposedly strong-armed by the government to keep mum on the losses at Merrill Lynch.
The Motley Fool April 27, 2009 Morgan Housel	Pick the Unlucky Bank The Treasury's stress test will show that at least one bank needs more capital. Who might it be?
The Motley Fool December 3, 2009 Alex Dumortier	Bank of America Dilutes Shareholders. Who's Next? Don't say I didn't warn you.
The Motley Fool October 5, 2009 Morgan Housel	With Lewis Gone, Is Pandit Next? Citigroup's current CEO, Vikram Pandit, replaced Chuck Prince in 2007, so he can't be blamed for many of Citi's problems. But you can still argue that he should be replaced.
The Motley Fool March 4, 2009 Alex Dumortier	B of A CEO Quibbles Over $10 Billion Ken Lewis calls his request for $20 billion in aid from the government to complete the acquisition of Merrill Lynch "a tactical mistake," saying he should have requested ... just $10 billion.
The Motley Fool November 25, 2009 Alex Dumortier	Which Megabank Will Need to Raise Capital? New analysis highlights the need for more capital for Citigroup.
The Motley Fool June 22, 2010 Matt Koppenheffer	Better Buy: Bank of America or Citigroup? Want to profit from the most beaten-down big banks? Here's my pick of the two.
The Motley Fool April 23, 2009 Morgan Housel	4 Reasons Banks Still Scare Me Bank investors have made buckets of money over the past month. That's great. But when fear switches to elation as quickly as it has, while banks' underlying problems are still alive and well, you have to think things are getting overcooked.
The Motley Fool October 15, 2009 Morgan Housel	Poor, Poor Citigroup Who loves the beleaguered bank? Only Uncle Sam.
The Motley Fool March 19, 2009 Morgan Housel	Bank Stocks Explode While bank stocks have exploded, a lot, in recent weeks, there's still much reason to be pessimistic. Quite a bit of it.
The Motley Fool December 27, 2011 Dan Caplinger	A Year to Forget for JPMorgan Chase Let's look back at how the year went for this company.
The Motley Fool April 28, 2009 Morgan Housel	Shakeup Looms at Bank of America Among other issues B of A investors must grapple with at their annual meeting is the fate of CEO Ken Lewis, who has been tarred and feathered after the multibillion-dollar Merrill Lynch acquisition blew up, nearly taking shareholders down with it.
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 April 21, 2009 Morgan Housel	B of A's Ken Lewis: Still Mostly Clueless Maria Bartiromo asks Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis how he would prove to an upcoming shareholder meeting that Merrill Lynch won't become something that will require a 12-figure bailout by the federal government.
The Motley Fool April 23, 2009 Alex Dumortier	Did Wells Fargo Miss Its Window? The bank's balance sheet still looks excessively leveraged, and I think the company's sterling reputation may be causing investors and analysts to gloss over that fact.
The Motley Fool March 10, 2009 Morgan Housel	Don't Fall for Citigroup's Fantasy The news that the bank is actually profitable takes stretching the truth to a whole new level.
The Motley Fool November 26, 2008 Alex Dumortier	Will Citi Dilute Shareholders Again? Citigroup shareholders breath an enormous sigh of relief, welcoming a second government bailout that didn't significantly dilute them. They may not be out of the woods yet, though.
The Motley Fool September 15, 2009 Morgan Housel	What If Citigroup Had Bought Wachovia? Around this time last year, Citigroup struck a deal to buy Wachovia, a bank that surely would have failed without being bought. What would have happened if they did?
The Motley Fool October 1, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer	Don't Let the Door Hit You, Ken Lewis! The CEO says the end of the year will be the end of his career with Bank of America.
The Motley Fool December 10, 2009 Alex Dumortier	Citi Wants Out -- What About Shareholders? Will shareholders get a reprieve from dilution? Citi now urgently wants to repay the government's $20 billion preferred share investment as quickly as possible.
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 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 3, 2009 Alex Dumortier	Is There a $10 Billion Hole in Citi's Balance Sheet? Will the accountants come home to roost?
The Motley Fool December 1, 2009 Alex Dumortier	Banks: The Problem That Won't Go Die Quietly Massive loan losses still remain on bank balance sheets.
The Motley Fool August 24, 2011 Morgan Housel	Bank of America: Tangled in Charlotte's Web The megabank's nightmare.
The Motley Fool October 6, 2009 Morgan Housel	Citigroup Wants Taxpayers Out of Its Hair: Round 2 Selling the government's stake isn't going to cut it.
The Motley Fool April 29, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer	B of A Needs a New CEO Ken Lewis had his crack at running Bank of America and it hasn't turned out well. Should he be shown the door?
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 April 14, 2009 Morgan Housel	Euphoria Ignites Bank Stocks Unfortunately, exuberance alone seems to drive most of this rally.
The Motley Fool April 21, 2008 Morgan Housel	Citigroup: The Master of Low Expectations Everything except an asteroid hitting Earth appears to be baked into the stock price this quarter.
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 January 22, 2009 Morgan Housel	Was Bank of America Forced to Buy Merrill? Two key questions that investors want to know the answers to are when those seemingly "unexpected" Merrill losses came to light, and why the deal was still consummated after they were discovered.
The Motley Fool October 16, 2009 Morgan Housel	Bank of America: Still Stumbling Another ugly quarter, but it could have been worse.
The Motley Fool April 22, 2009 Morgan Housel	It Ain't Easy Being a Strong Bank Isn't it absurd that Citigroup and Bank of America are taking massive write-ups on the blowout of their credit spreads -- a sign that investors were betting on the possibility of default.
The Motley Fool June 20, 2011 Alex Dumortier	JPMorgan Wants Another Financial Crisis Bankers behaving badly.
U.S. Banker October 2008 Joseph Rosta	Another Sad Quarter The march of losses and significantly lower earnings commenced last week, with Citigroup reporting a $2.8-billion net loss, and Merrill Lynch -- soon to join Bank of America -- lugging a loss on continuing operations of $5.1 billion.