re: When a lib says Trump inherited a hot economy.

Fair response and you are right that certain institutions were strong armed by Paulson as that isn’t a secret. Although still doesn’t change how many institutions during that period did fail, merge or became holding companies because of the crisis.

Also still comes down to Bernanke wasn’t known for hyperbole. Given his academic background and overall his handling of the crisis and afterwards I’m going to still stick with his assessment of the severity of the crisis. I will grant you this, I would be interested to know what 12 - 13 institutions he had in mind when stating what he did.