The Bush administration selected certain financial entities as being too big to fail, and propped them up with public funding. IMO this is similar to Mussolini's corporatism (use of Fascist officials to mediate between labor and capital on behalf of the Italian corporatist state) and Hitler's partiality toward the Krupp corporation as the recipient of public monies to build the German warmaking machine that caused the deaths of millions upon million during the Second World War.