Bank of America has $2.3 trillion in assets but $956 billion of that is made up in loans

"The FDIC has a herculean challenge in confronting the too big to fail banks. There is little doubt that having institutions that are too big is part of the reason for the current systemic crisis. Yet through the last few years the solution has been to make these banks even bigger allowing their web to spread even further and deeper into the economy. "