They became subject to the equivalent of a bank run in 2007 and 2008, in which  investors (rather than depositors) withdrew sources of financing from the shadow  system. This run became known as the subprime mortgage crisis. During 2008,  the five largest U.S. investment banks either failed (Lehman Brothers), were ...
Sep 13, 2013 ... By every measure I can think of, and I have tried a bunch, the big banks are  bigger than they were five years ago, at the dawn of the financial crisis. MORE:  Remembering the families at the center of the financial crisis. “We still have many  of the excesses we saw leading up to 2008,” says Robert Reich, the ...
May 19, 2014 ... You know, you talked about during the financial crisis we were told these banks  are too big to fail. Today, the five largest financial institutions are 38 percent  bigger than they were back in 2008, when they were too big to fail. We are still  taking on — right now, there is still a lot of risk in the financial system.
May 26, 2017 ... Although “too big to fail” (TBTF) has been a long-standing policy issue, it was  highlighted by the financial ... losses, they have less incentive to monitor the firm's  riskiness because they are shielded from the ..... were 40 financial holding  companies with more than $50 billion in assets in the United States, of.
The Persistence of Too Big To Fail. The data are indisputable: the top six bank  holding companies—JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo,  Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley—are larger than they were before the 2008  crisis. Together they hold 37 percent more assets than they did five years ago.
Today, the five largest financial institutions are 38 percent bigger than they were back in 2008, when they were too big to fail.