Right turn on hospitals

12 years ago

In reports Wednesday and Thursday in The Maui News, Gov. Abercrombie says he understands that Hawaii Health Systems Corp.'s financial…

Mean streets

12 years ago

As Kamaaina Loan blog has noted many times, a pawnshop is a stupid place to try to fence stolen goods,…

90% of life is just showing up

13 years ago

Or 100% for a man named KK Ho, who lost his job but kept showing up anyway, pretending to be…

‘Marketplace’ explores pawn business

13 years ago

National Public Radio's Kai Ryssdal decides to see if the ups and downs of pawn business are useful in tracking…

Does Macy’s tell Gimbel’s?

13 years ago

We don't know. But according to The New York Times, EZ Pawn does tell Tiffany's. It's been a rough few…

More good press for pawn shops

13 years ago

A ReutersMoney feature discovers (again) that well-to-do people use pawn shops for short-term loans. Pawnbrokers like to emphasize this, because so…

Thoughts about buying gold now

13 years ago

Is now a good time to buy gold? Maybe. The price is the lowest it's been in about three years.…

Real secrets of reality TV pawn shows revealed

13 years ago

One of the newer entries in the unending stream of pawn shows, Hardcore Pawn: Chicago, started out its latest program…

‘I didn’t know you were legit’

13 years ago

Les Gold, the Hardcare Pawn guy, is promoting his new book, so he's all over the interview shows this week.…

‘Is Pawn the new Prada?’

13 years ago

It is in Miami, according to this press release from the Jiminez Group. (Full disclosure: our Maui pawn shop, Kamaaina Loan…