This quote is probably accurate in the short term, but it fails to consider the medium and long term consequences[/quote]. It seems to me to be a bit like a coffee shop boosting their sales by taking out a loan from the bank and using the money from the loan to hand out £10 notes to customers as they walk into the shop.

The coffee shop would experience immediate growth and the shop's earnings performance would look great. But after the short-term boost faded the shop's earnings potential would not have increased and the loan would need to be repaid.

Indeed the bank would probably think twice about lending money to the coffee shop (or require a higher interest rate to be paid) if it could see that the way that the loan was spent had not had a positive impact on the long-term performance of the coffee shop.