Possible reasons for this little project allegedly falling apart at the seams:
1) No bank wants to hold the amount of risk that the little man is wanting to borrow. They have worked out he is a fruitloop prone to rash decision making such as grounding an entire airline, and he also makes overnight decisions which include the fantasy of taking over Asia and building a global empire larger than Dr Evil's.
2) The banks have no money left to lend the little fella. They too have trashed their own organizations in the pursuit of pure greed and are now also reaping what they have sewn.
Maybe just maybe the piper has started playing for Team Joyce? Slowly slowly catch the monkey.