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With banks reluctant to loosen purse strings and credit-card companies aggressively slashing credit lines, a growing number of consumers are turning to the once murky world of pawnshops for quick cash. "Loans are up 20% to 25%," estimates David Crume, president of the National Pawnbrokers Association.
On Monday, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo asked eight large banks to turn over data on their expected 2009 bonus payouts. President Barack Obama is considering leveling a fee on financial firms to help the government recoup the costs of last year's bank and auto bailouts. FDIC officials...
Dubai in Peril The crisis in Dubai is the crisis of unsustainable folly [Dec. 14]. It's amazing how eager banks have been to pour money into a country that sucks in vast amounts of energy and water to build a playground for the very rich. At its heart there...
Percy was a tireless advocate for African Americans' economic rights. In 1971 he bought WLIB-AM. It became the first black-owned radio station in the city. He had to go to 62 banks to get the money for it. His belief was that radio was the only way blacks...
Iceland's defiance goes to the heart of the debate about what caused the country's stunning economic collapse - and who has to pay in the aftermath. Critics say Iceland has only itself to blame: the sparsely populated island had a mainly fish-based economy until the early 2000s, when...