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  • Citigroup's stock price dropped to it lowest level in four months after investors said they weren't excited about the bank's stock and the government said it'd wait to sell holdings. So what happened? Alisa Roth reports.

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  • The IRS has extended favorable tax treatment worth billions to struggling banks like Citigroup that benefited from government bailout money. But what does that mean for people who bankrolled the bailout? John Dimsdale reports.

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  • Why is so much of what happens in the economy still tied up with Wall Street's banks? Douglas Elliott of the Brookings Institution talks with Kai Ryssdal about when that might change.

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  • Fifteen months after Lehman Brothers collapsed there are still no new rules for the financial industry. But the bill for new regulations is finally on the House floor. Jeremy Hobson reports.

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  • The Obama administration will extend TARP until October 2010. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner says the money is needed in case financial conditions worsen. Does he know something we don't? Amy Scott reports.

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  • Billions of dollars have been poured into the financial system to get credit flowing again. But that hasn't exactly happened. Amy Scott reports.

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  • President Obama is hoping to get small businesses hiring again through tax breaks and help with loans. But is this what small-business owners want or need? Mitchell Hartman reports.

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  • With all this talk of redirecting the bank-bailout program, plenty of regional banks aren't ready to pay that money back. Amy Scott reports.

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  • Instead of the $240 billion taxpayers were expected to lose from the bank bailout, Fed chief Bernanke says it will only be $40 billion. That leaves $200 billion to help pay down the federal budget deficit, right? Maybe not. John Dimsdale reports.

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  • Bank of America says it raised more than $19 billion to pay back the taxpayers' bailout money. What about Citigroup? Amy Scott reports.

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