In the fall of 1960 an ailing, out-of-sorts John Steinbeck, pretty much depleted as a novelist, decided that his problem was he had lost touch with America.
After seven years as chief executive of the luxury fashion house Burberry, and credited with rescuing an ailing, out-of-date brand, Angela Ahrendts has joined technology giant Apple.
Marc Maron sets out to find out what's ailing Americans, find out how they're getting through these turbulent times and, in the process, find out a thing or two about himself.
Weaker banks, and ailing clubs, pay out 80% or more of their revenues in the hope of making their way up the league table.
Several firms, including J.C. Flowers, an American private-equity company experienced in sorting out ailing financial institutions, initially expressed interest in this one.
The decision, which reverses earlier statements made by bank executives and in regulatory filings, marks the biggest move yet by a bank to bail out ailing SIVs.
Spain has taken €40bn from eurozone rescue funds to clean out ailing banks weighed down by toxic real estate left-over from a burst housing bubble.
To patch over the problems, the government is urging banks to bail out ailing, but politically powerful, construction companies by swapping debt for equity and taking other measures.
But the state has also benefited from the banks directly in the form of steady dividends from PKO BP, and indirectly from not having to bail out ailing lenders on the scale of so many other European countries.
The leaders also agreed to bring forward to next year the creation of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), a fund designed to bail out ailing countries reducing the risk that the likes of Italy and Spain would struggle to refinance maturing debts.
