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The third angle on the financial crisis was to illustrate the impact of the reluctance of banks to extend credit on their customers. NBC had Mark Potter profile the worries of small business--a dry cleaner, a bakery, a milliner, a marketing firm, a car dealership, computer technicians--"facing fundamental changes in the way they do business." On ABC's A Closer Look, Barbara Pinto (embargoed link) pointed out that it was not only small business that is at risk if deprived of loans. She added Sbarro restaurants; Dollar and Thrifty rental cars; Sealy mattresses; and realtors Century 21 and Coldwell Banker.
ABC's 50 States in 50 Days series is supposed to focus on Campaign '08 but the news of the day obliged Neal Karlinsky to focus on the vox pop on the financial bailout when he stopped off in Fargo for North Dakota's turn in the spotlight. Democrat Earl Pomeroy, the state's lone Congressman, voted in favor of the bailout because "his constituents told him Wall Street's troubles were beginning to trickle down."
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