Higher profits and cash accumulation are an understood macro-economic symptom of credit expansion. Consumers buy stuff with money earned from business production (mostly wages), so consumption is constrained by the amount of production going on. Cut back on wages and production on a macro level and then demand sinks and businesses make less money. But introduce heavy spending on credit and consumption is no longer constrained by aggregate production outlays. People spend money they didn't earn. Businesses can cut back on wages and still find themselves making large paper profits.
The problem with this picture is you're looking at a transfer of wealth, by way of inflation, from currency holders to those positioned to leverage credit on the best terms.