Definite preference for her left. Nihil is either a guinea pig that can write English, or a human that gave birth to guinea pigs. I don't know which is more disturbing.
Several of had failed or were failing well before the current economic crisis. Just off the top of my head, Aloha Airlines, Levitz and Sharper Image filed for bankruptcy in March 2008, December 2007 and February 2008, respectively, well before Wall Street buckled.