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Meredith Whitney Sees Credit Cards as the Next Crunch
• CNBC.comWhitney said available lines were reduced by nearly $500 billion in the fourth quarter of 2008 alone, and she estimates over $2 trillion of credit-card lines will be cut within 2009, and $2.7 trillion by the end of 2010.