> No lender is going to lend a business money just so it can pay the owners. Of course they will! There's an entire industry (leveraged buy outs) built around

> No lender is going to lend a business money just so it can pay the owners. Of course they will! There's an entire industry (leveraged buy outs) built around it. And more generally, lenders will let you do dumb things with the money they lend you. As long as they expect to get paid back. So, could a small business borrow money to pay it's owners? Probably not, it's not likely to get paid back. Could a multinational corporation borrow money to pay dividends? Yes, it's happened.