Except that a large number of them went bankrupt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banks_acquired_or_bankrupted_during_the_Great_Recession https://en.wiki

Except that a large number of them went bankrupt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banks_acquired_or_bankrupted_during_the_Great_Recession https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banks_acquired_or_bank... And took a lot of countries down with them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%E2%80%932014_Spanish_financial_crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%E2%80%932014_Spanish_fina... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_government-debt_crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_government-debt_crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%E2%80%932014_Portuguese_financial_crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%E2%80%932014_Portuguese_f... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-2008_Irish_economic_downturn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-2008_Irish_economic_downt...