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How the Credit Crisis Affects Small Business

The big media is talking about big dollars, big companies, and big bailout packages.  Sub-prime mortgage backed securities, money market mutual fund savings, and now commercial paper have all been at the center of the conversation of the current credit crisis in the US and, in recent days, worldwide. 

To some, the credit crisis is a very real and immediate danger directly affecting their day to day work life and personal life.  But, to others it seems like a distant war being fought by some other society.  And, like any war on an abstract concept it is difficult to determine what affect any action has on “the market”. 

But what about small business?  At its most basic “cause and effect” form, the credit crisis has had several immediate effects on small business:
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