Is Bank of America At Risk of a Death Spiral?

``Weil enumerates the reasons for doubt. First, the bank has been overly optimistic. It refused to write down $4.4 billion of goodwill from Countrywide until late last year, and maintained it would only suffer $4.4 billion in mortgage-related losses, then wrote off $19.2 billion more last quarter... bank appears to be in denial... And let us tell you a dirty secret: while Bank of America, thanks to Countrywide, is patient zero of the housing mess, Wells is next in line. Residential real estate is proportionately even bigger relative to the bank's earnings and balance sheet...''