Chinese shares tumbled more than 8 percent on Monday amid renewed fears about the outlook for the world's No. 2 economy, reviving the specter
of a full -
blown market crash that prompted unprecedented government intervention earlier this month.
Each
of those four banks also have an outsized presence on Wall Street; each
of them received taxpayer bailouts during the 2008
crash; each received secret, below -
market interest rate loans from the Federal Reserve during the crisis; and three
of them (JPMorgan Chase, Bank
of America and Citibank) are currently holding tens
of trillions
of dollars in derivatives within the insured banking subsidiary — meaning there would be a forced taxpayer bailout if the derivatives
blew up the bank.