maui silver

Old bugbears

It is amusing to watch Mauians, even newcomers, rushing to stock up on rice and toilet paper in anticipation of…

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

New but old pawn shop guitar treasures

OK, we love this essay  by Jol Dantzig at PremierGuitar.com, but nowhere does he tell what the prices of these…

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

Presidential diamonds

At Kamaaina Loan, we like to say we never know what will come over the counter next. But we have…

12 years ago

Pawn shop treasure: Peace out

In a sense, this is old news, but a Nobel Peace Prize discovered in a pawn shop is headed for…

12 years ago

Do we have too much aloha?

The short answer is no. But a story at the National Pawnbrokers Association website got us to thinking about our…

12 years ago

Is gold looking up?

Some people think so. From Bloomberg News: Coutts & Co. is adding gold for investors as rising wealth in China…

12 years ago

To catch a thief — or several

We have surveillance cameras at our Maui pawn shop, but we DO NOT do what Portland pawnbroker Mike Fink does:…

12 years ago

A look inside the gold price mechanism

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

12 years ago