The phrase "ailing capital" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe financial resources or investments that are struggling or in poor condition.
Example: "The company's ailing capital has raised concerns among investors about its long-term viability."
Alternatives: "struggling capital" or "troubled capital".
Transparency is a powerful antidote for what ails our capital markets.
Ideally it should come from the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), Europe's new bail-out fund, as a direct capital injection into banks rather than as loans to governments, which then use the money to recapitalise their ailing lenders.Injecting capital is politically difficult.
In the early 20th century, the Young Turk Revolution deposed Sultan Abdul Hamid II and a series of wars plagued the ailing empire's capital.
After the 2008-09 financrisisrisis, countries such as Ireland, Britain and Germany had to pump dozens of billions of pounds and euros in fresh capital into ailing banks to prevent the financial system collapsing.
The government has also signalled that, to bring fresh capital to ailing companies and banks, it is willing to relax a key tenet of its policy: its discrimination in favour of the majority Malay population (and hence against native Chinese and foreigners).For now, Bank Negara is in a position to keep banks open and protect depositors.
Regulators did not bother to disguise their irritation with Mr Schumer's intervention, but they cannot ignore the broader message: a lack of liquidity kills.The third message from IndyMac is that the well of capital for ailing banks is not inexhaustible.
The results will be ugly for some, given how slow they have been to build reserves and acknowledge dud loans.Congress and the public are in no mood to keep ploughing capital into ailing giants Citigroup and Bank of America have already taken $45 billion apiece, plus extensive asset insurance without more drastic consequences.
In the wake of the carnage in last week's markets, European countries pledged to inject capital into ailing banks and guarantee some forms of bank debt, a step analysts said was critical to restoring lending between banks and easing a crisis of confidence.
Thereafter European rescue funds should be allowed to inject capital directly into ailing banks, so sharing the burden.
In the meantime, who wants to put extra capital into those ailing Irish, Portuguese, and Spanish banks anyway?
