"Sooner or later, you have to show that you are willing to make the changes, or even the biggest bailout will not work."

Of the big bailouts, only Russia's has blown up in his hands.

He pushed for a big international bailout and a devaluation of the ruble to bolster Russia's troubled economy.

Athens has so far received €110bn in rescue funds originally agreed as part of the biggest bailout in western history in May 2010.

"More big bailouts are not by themselves going to restore investor confidence in Russia," she said.

Analysts say Mitsubishi sorely needs the new models to succeed and that it cannot count on any more big bailouts.

He said Japan needed a bigger bailout in which the weak banks would go out of business once and for all.

So consider the big bailout of savings and loan institutions.

Last month, Congress and the president approved the biggest bailout in the history of the apple industry.

It was the fifth such big bailout in the last two weeks, with most of those deals being done in Texas.