Big Banks and the Mendoza Line

... The reason the big four are called "too big to fail," remember, is that they had all sorts of bad assets, mostly mortgage assets, during the crisis. Bank of America had Countrywide Financial, and JP Morgan Chase These institutions had bad assets -- ...

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