With this accusation of the misuse of borrowed funds, we recognize the strange and, I think in this context, rather ill-fitting subtext behind Comus' seduction.
And without those lines of credit, the risk-taking, highly leveraged firms that relied on borrowed funds to finance their operations are suddenly unable to proceed.
The use of credit or borrowed funds to improve one's speculative capacity and increase the rate of return from an investment, as in buying securities on margin.