Today's Question: Are some banks really too big to fail?

When industry monoliths faced collapse because of last year's financial crisis, the U.S. government was there to catch them. The Treasury Department pumped $200 billion of taxpayers' money into the institutions considered "too big to fail" through its Capital Purchase Program. Among the private-sector companies that reaped the benefits are Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase, each of which got $25 billion; Citigroup, which has received three government bailouts that total $45 billion; Bank of America, which has received two bailouts of around $45 billion; and Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, which both received $10 billion.