About 2008 Finantial Crisis Hello, I've been reading an article about the Finantial Crisis in 2008 and there is a part that I don't understand. I'd appreciate if you could help me. This is the specific sensence: "causing those most reliant on it to founder" I know what a founder is "a person who founds" but it doesn't fit into the context, I don't see how, at least. Here is the complete paragraph: "Trust, the ultimate glue of all financial systems, began to dissolve in 2007—a year before Lehman’s bankruptcy—as banks started questioning the viability of their counterparties. They and other sources of wholesale funding began to withhold short-term credit, causing those most reliant on it to founder. Northern Rock, a British mortgage lender, was an early casualty in the autumn of 2007"