too big to fail

I saw this a while ago and forgot to share it here, but HBO's Too Big to Fail is worth the watch. It is of course based on true events and some of the things you see are just astounding (some of you who followed the crisis will probably know most of what it shows by now, but the dramatization is...

As Bank of America continues struggling, there is new speculation that JP Morgan could take it over in a deal that would involve a $100 billion investment from the Federal government. In order for the deal to go through, the Treasury would have to waive a rule that limits the marketshare a...

I wanted to bring this up into a thread of it's own because I see a lot of the arguments essentially lead up to a simple question: Is there such a thing for a company to be "Too big to fail?" With AIG and the current crisis, it has been a major sticking point to the reasoning behind the...