For more than three thousand years, people have been going into pawn shops to get rid of their old stuff or to get a personal loan in exchange for dropping their stuff off.
That’s right. Three millenia. Pawn shops have been around longer than Christianity. When the Roman Empire was just a flicker in the eye [...]
Get your mind out of the gutter, oh gentle reader. We’re not talking about ladies of the evening. No, these ladies work far harder and often face much worse conditions than your average street walker.
We’re talking about women in small business. While it’s challenging enough in the United States to be a woman in small [...]
The biggest problem with getting out of debt is that it just takes too darn long. Once you get paid, you like to buy the things you want, then the things you need, and then pay bills. It’s human nature to pay the minimum amount on a credit card, for example, so that we can [...]
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For thousands of years, if you needed to borrow money from someone you tracked down a friend or relative and asked them for some cash. If you didn’t have a friend or relative that had money (most didn’t) you might go to a moneylender. A moneylender was very often considered the scum of the earth, [...]
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If you’re like most folks, you can’t stand the jingles from those free credit report ads on TV and radio. However, if you’re like most folks, the reason you can’t stand them is that you can’t get them out of your head. It’s proven to be an effective, if annoying, marketing campaign, as the website [...]
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