Marlen V. Ronquillo
The 2008 financial meltdown in the US led to the popularization of a highly-debatable, controversial acronym—TBTF or Too Big to Fail . TBTF represented a collection of banks and other financial institutions that were bailed out by US taxpayers on the theory that their collapse would cause a financial chaos of inconceivable magnitude. A development that would spread financial havoc across the globe.