Here are eight things to watch out for in 2011 that threaten to rock the financial system and undermine any recovery.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is promising to unleash a cache of secret documents from the hard drive of a U.S. megabank executive. In 2009, he told Computer World that the bank was Bank of America (BofA).

In an era of inexplicable flash crashes, reckless commodity speculation on gas prices and "too big to fail" taxpayer guarantees backstopping much of this activity, do we really need to be trading based on Tweets?

This is what the Chamber fears most of all, the FCIC's planned release of those reckless, imprudent and downright ugly emails from the masters of the universe crowing about how well they do their jobs -- fleecing America.