Regulating Credit Cards

credit-card-machine-300x266.jpg The always-great Independent Street brought word a few days ago of a new report on credit cards and small business (downloadable in full here) from the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Committee that concluded, in the words of the group's president, "Given all of the benefits small businesses and consumers receive from the credit-debit card industry, we should all be concerned about an economic climate featuring a credit crunch, and a policy climate leading to more regulation and restrictions that would only make matters far worse."