pawnshops

• “Today, the number of private check cashers, payday lenders and pawnshops is more than double the number of McDonald's franchises in the United States.”

  The Huffington Post: John Harrington: Don't Worry About The Bedbugs -- Eliminate the Financial Parasites

• “I spend too much time looking at instruments on e-bay and it is curious that I don't see that many other instruments being offered by "pawnshops" -- just these fakes.”

  Mandolin Cafe News

• “One industry lobbyist estimated that fewer than 150 stores would remain in Ohio, as some also offer other services, such as pawnshops or check cashing.”

  Ohio Senate Passes Strict Lending Legislation, Prepares To Punch Payday Lenders In The Face - The Consumerist

• “These "pawnshops" always have superhigh positive feedback with power seller numbers attached as well.”

  Mandolin Cafe News

• “Those who turn to private lenders, like pawnshops or wealthy businessmen, rather than banks, pay rates of as much as 100% annually.”

  The Wall Street Journal: China Lifts Banks' Reserve Ratio

• “• Call the police (and area pawnshops) with the IMEI, SIM or MEID number (indentifying number for your phone, like a VIN number for your car) so the phone can be returned to you if found, sold, or nabbed in an arrest.”

  The Huffington Post: Hemanshu Nigam: Protecting Your Memories by Protecting Your Devices

• “Credit cards may be a cheaper option than payday loans and pawnshops, as Postrel states, but credit-card companies should not profit from families just trying to make ends meet.”

  Letters to the Editor

• “He says there is risk in investing in payday lenders and pawnshops even though demand for their services may rise as traditional banks impose more fees on low-end customers.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Consumer & Specialty Finance

• “In mid-fifteenth-century Italy, Franciscan monks formed church-based financial societies and pawnshops called monti di pietà, charitable economic institutions that allowed Christians to loan money at interest to Christians.100 As one Franciscan explained in his history of these outfits, the problem was that Jews and Lombards advanced money in order to enrich themselves and not to serve their “fellow-men” out of “Christian charity.””

  Simon & Schuster: Bloodlust

• “Today I enter a shabby block of wig shops, pawnshops, and check cashing services.”

  Fictionaut: City Basements

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