Pawn 101

Crooked lawyers? Say it ain’t so!

The post below is copied from my other blog, Restating the Obvious Maui, at The Maui News. For Kamaaina Loan…

11 years ago

The people’s bankers

It has been 80 years since the Pecora hearings exposed how big banks work against the public interest. New Deal…

11 years ago

Anti-scam for Internet sales

Another insight from this year's National Pawnbrokers Association convention. This one came during the roundtable on Police Confiscations, but the…

11 years ago

Anti-scam for Internet sales

Another insight from this year's National Pawnbrokers Association convention. This one came during the roundtable on Police Confiscations, but the…

11 years ago

Purse matching

Jordan Tabach-Bank is one of the best pawnbrokers at getting media attention, so we are happy to piggyback on his…

12 years ago

Seedy maybe, but not dark

Reporters who show no interest in the millions of ordinary working people who patronize the nation's 13,000 pawnshops are endlessly…

12 years ago

The risk the pawnbroker takes

All lenders take a risk,  but pawnbrokers live with an unquantifiable risk that most other lenders do not have to…

12 years ago

What are we waiting for?

There was a bill in the Hawaii Legislature this year that would have mandated electronic reporting of pawnshop transactions to…

12 years ago

Pawn shops take over the Big Apple

According to an article in Crain's New York Business, there are now 493 pawnshops in New York, up by 50 percent (when you…

12 years ago

Yes, we are regulated, duh

It seems the Michigan State Police raided a "pawnshop,"  and now the "pawnshop's" "customers" are   wondering if they will…

12 years ago