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The Big Five banks dubbed too big to fail, are 35 percent bigger than they were when the meltdown was triggered.

Last year, it began to recover a bit for the first time since the meltdown—it was logged at $52,100 in June 2013.

Then in 2008, the year of the meltdown, it dropped to $53,644.

The deficit is down to 2.8 percent of GDP, from a high of 10.1 percent in the wake of the meltdown.

But he had his debut as ‘supporting actor in a celebrity meltdown’ way back in 2007 with Britney Spears.