A Government Accountability Office critic said that the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's rescue of Long-Term Capital Management in 1998 would encourage large financial institutions to believe that the Federal Reserve would intervene on their behalf if risky loans went sour because they were "too big to fail."
一位美國政府問責局（US Government Accountability Office）批評家說，紐約聯邦儲備銀行在1998年對長期資本管理公司的救援將鼓勵大型金融機構去相信，如果有風險的貸款出現壞帳，美聯儲會為這些機構進行干涉，因為它們「太大而不能倒閉。