The credit institutions are really suffering right now and as a result are lowering their economic hardship on to the common debtor. They are slashing credit lines, bumping up APR’s, and withholding on giving out credit all together. This is creating a gigantic issue for all of us who handle credit cards and charge on them for every purchase. I feel as if my credit cards are becoming larger and larger every time I go to use them because of the constantly rising APR. Even if I desired to enact a balance transfer, I cannot because the other institutions with lower rates aren’t issuing them currently. So I’m consumed using the cards I’m already currently depending on, at a increased interest rate. It’s closing in on the condition that I might have to let the debts go and retain a debt relief company to make a deal on the bills. I was fine paying on the cards prior to this economic catastrophe, before the banks were putting a financial noose around my neck.