The financial crisis of 2008 shined a bright light on the behavior of large financial institutions, which had become too complex to regulate, too clumsy to manage and, according to the government, too big to fail.

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Now let's look down the financial road at these two individuals, assuming that they continue to make their financial decisions based on these patterns of behavior.

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"We have reached the scary point where the dysfunctional behavior of financial markets has destructive effects on the financial system and--much worse--on the real economies, " writes New York University economics professor and Forbes.com columnist Nouriel Roubini.

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Consumers are still hating on Bank of America for its behavior during and after the financial crisis, and find it just slightly less offensive than the oil spill disaster BP created in 2010.

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The financial meltdown of 2008 was a bonfire of bad behavior on all sides.

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And this irresponsible behavior on the part of some contributed to the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.

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But even so, the burden of proof is often on the spouse with less financial resources (typically the woman) to prove any such unscrupulous behavior.

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