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Enough. i think there is room to do more of that. the thing thats difficult for a small business is typically they dont in any way control the market that they function in. and so they can see how they react to gas prices going up. the difficulty is trying to figure out how their vendors and customers would react or how they would react to that because the gas prices, you know, obviously we think about in terms of car buying decisions and that sort of thing but the really huge impact on a broad ...

Significantly in january. and then theres the lingering problem of high unemployment, not to mention state and local government budget and debt problems which may lead to massive layoffs. so, how are small businesses holding up? todd maceachen of the small business association, chad mutray of pinchfield consulting and analytics, the former chief economist for the small business administrations office of advocacy. alfred edmond is the multimedia he had or tore at large at black enterprise and cam...

That they often use for investing on their own plant equipment and that kind of stuff and so they need their house to be able to be able to tap into that equity, et cetera, and that really is hurting their ability to get access to credit. i know that im working with a franchise association right thousand and one of the biggest challenges among franchises are credit and their ability to be able to grow their business and housing is a large part of that. >> we have just been saying problems with c...