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Country music goes to the ‘Pawn Shop’

We can hardly wait to hear the lyrics of "Pawn Shop," a new song by the moderately well-known duo Brothers…

10 years ago

Backing off the pawn reporting law

This is something we haven't noticed before. Across the country, there has been a wave of local ordinances requiring collection…

10 years ago

Catching up with Rick Harrison

America's most famous pawnbroker now has a bartender's card, to go along with his saloon and other businesses opening in…

10 years ago

Java jive

Well, excuuuse us, but $3 cups of coffee do not indicate gentrification. A strange little story in the L.A. Eastsider…

10 years ago

Gold — and not only gold — takes a powder

At the start of this year, the mavens at Goldman Sachs -- who had called the price movement of gold…

10 years ago

Is pawn lending fringe or mainstream?

For years, students of pawn lending have described it as an alternative to regular banking or -- in the words…

11 years ago

Gun shy

This is just too silly not to pass on. In Florida, a man tried to shoplift a firearm from a…

11 years ago

A pawnbroker with a heart of platinum

Most of our customers don't have even one gold album, let alone 5 platinum ones, so this incident from the…

11 years ago

Pretty packaging

Some people will go to quite a bit of trouble to steal a measly $7,446. Like the guy who made…

11 years ago

Trouble for diamonds

The following post should concern you even if you are not a diamond miner, which we assume most of our…

11 years ago