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Kai Ryssdal finds a credit crisis snapshot in St. Louis, where developers worry about getting loans for their projects and a restaurant owner hears customers stories of lost jobs and homes.  

Panicky stockholders are pulling cash out of the market at a dizzying pace. But where is all that money going? Mattresses? Gold mines? But seriously, where? Ashley Milne-Tyte went looking.  

Missouri Sen. Kit Bond tells Kai Ryssdal about farmers worried about loans for the next crop, public projects on hold and workers losing jobs. Fellow Sen. Claire McCaskill had similar stories, but she also sees cause for hope.  

Finance ministers from the world's largest industrialized nations are in Washington looking for a way to coordinate a multi-national response to the global financial crisis. John Dimsdale reports.  

Tess Vigeland and Amy Scott hook up with Kai Ryssdal in St. Louis, last stop on their road trips through the Main Streets of America. So, has Wall Street put the country on the Road to Ruin?