A look inside the gold price mechanism

12 years ago

Revelations that London banks manipulated the LIBOR interest rate -- misbehavior for which they have been fined billions by regulators…

Gold gets interesting

12 years ago

As readers know, the daily and weekly gyrations in the price of gold (and silver) don't concern our Maui pawn…

Big surf

12 years ago

Yesterday, I drove out to Hookipa to look at the surf. From Baldwin Avenue around the old men's home, you…

One place pawnshops get respect

12 years ago

Pawnbrokers -- including Kamaaina Loan blog -- often lament that the image of pawnshops with the public is generally low.…

Luxury asset lending

12 years ago

One thing Kamaaina Loan blog hasn't covered much is how pawnbrokers do business with small businesses.  Usually, the actual transaction…

Who is a pawnbroker?

12 years ago

As this editorial from the Wheeling Intelligencer demonstrates, pawnshops and other dealers in secondhand goods sometimes have to surmount poorly conceived…

Canonization for Big Rich

12 years ago

When correspondent Emily Bott of Maui No Ka Oi magazine asked if she could do a profile of Big Rich…

Who do you trust?

12 years ago

One cool thing about being in the pawn business is that we can (usually) make money on gold whether its…

Two colorful pawn shops

12 years ago

These two pawn shops, one in Maine and one in Florida, make our little Maui pawn shop seem kind of…

Too little to borrow

12 years ago

Kamaaina Loan blog has linked to many newspaper or television stories about the new status of pawning. Here is an unusually…