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Millions In U.S. Do Their Banking Without Banks, According To FDIC Survey

NPR | Sam Sanders | Posted 12.06.2009 | Business

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About 60 million adults do their banking at places other than banks, according to a new survey by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation....

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Annie Leibovitz Pawns Rights To All Her Photographs

New York Times | Allen Salkin | Posted 03.27.2009 | Media

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Last fall, Annie Leibovitz, the photographer, borrowed $5 million from a company called Art Capital Group. In December, she borrowed $10.5 million mor...

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Pawn Shop Customers Pulling Up In High Priced Cars, Peddling Luxury Items

Wall Street Journal | Gary Fields | Posted 01.30.2009 | Business

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PHILADELPHIA -- At Society Hill Loan, a pawnshop in a middle-class neighborhood here, a steady rain fell outside as a fashionably dressed young man pa...

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Americans Rich And Poor Pawn More To Pay Bills

Reuters | Posted 01.15.2009 | Style

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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif./PHOENIX (Reuters) - Whether it's a Tiffany diamond or a three-year-old lawnmower, more and more Americans from all social classe...

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Pawn Shops: Business Is Booming

LA Times | DAVID LAZARUS: | Posted 03.31.2008 | Business

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The economy is tanking, banks are scrambling for cover, the Fed is repeatedly cutting interest rates . . . and business is booming at pawn shop Crown ...

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Pawn Shops Prosper As Economy Tanks

ABC News | SCOTT MAYEROWITZ | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

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As more and more Americans cope with unemployment, struggle to pay their mortgages and deal with higher gas prices, it seems they are turning to pawn ...

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