Cut Nose, Spite Face 0
Remember, these are the same people who have been flooding my mailbox (yes, flooding, still) with offers to issue me business credit cards because I am legally a business and pay a little business tax.
The increase in credit-card costs has forced some business owners to stop using their cards, and at the same time declining credit limits are cutting their access to cash, said Todd McCracken, president of the Washington-based NSBA. Twenty-eight percent of small businesses surveyed by the NSBA said they had their card limits or lines of credit lowered in the second half of 2008.
Bank loans are drying up as an estimated 70 percent of U.S. banks have tightened standards for small-business loans, based on a Federal Reserve January survey of senior loan officers.
Susie has more (her intro to the post is worth clicking on the link).
