Gold Buying

Pawn 101: ‘Rogue’ gold buyers

At the risk of sounding like a broken record (do young people even know what that means?), we are returning…

13 years ago

Words to the wise from Ken Rutherford

Ken Rutherford is a well-known name in the precious metals business. He makes and sells the Fisch instrument, a simple…

13 years ago

An honest gold seller in India

Bloomberg News has a story about T.S. Kalyanaraman, who shook up the gold jewelry business in India by putting pricetags…

13 years ago

Gold’s good year

Gold momentarily touched $1800 an ounce last year and is now trading under $1700, so it may come as a…

13 years ago

Another Craigslist catastrophe

Via our friends at Jaxpawn, a story about a Craigslist encounter that went horribly, fatally wrong. We worry about people…

13 years ago

President Obama and gold

At Kamaaina Loan, we are always interested in gold -- buying it, selling it, lending money on it. But not…

13 years ago

A gold rush in Ghana

According to Bloomberg News, Chinese miners have http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-08/ghana-s-gold-sparks-conflict-with-illegal-chinese-miners.html rushed to Ghana. Just as with American 49ers in California, the environmental results…

13 years ago

More pawn reality TV

According to Zap2it, truTV is about to introduce yet another pawn shop reality show, Hard Core Pawn: Chicago: Hardcore Pawn:…

13 years ago

Gold bugs bitten in Texas

From the Dept. of Always Deal with People You Know and Trust (Especially if You are Going to Give Them…

13 years ago

Will gold go up or down?

Yes. But we have no way to tell which it will be. The folks at Lear Capital confess uncertainty, too,…

13 years ago