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2008 started in 2007, things move slow until they don’t. Banks are just as leveraged as they were then. They started doing many of the same things they did then in recent years. They are stronger in part because of the stress tests and implications fed back stop they are counting on so luckily the won’t likely panic and stop lending to each other. But make no mistake. If mortgages and credit cards start to default their balance sheets have limits on what they can with stand. Tightly coupled systems implode quickly even with small changes.