BBC News - ... trades mortgage-backed securities, reckons he has never seen it so bad, and that the credit ... funds everything from government debt to company borrowing to credit cards and car ... were not putting up their own money as collateral, they no longer used ...

Home loan crunch a boon for pawnbroker
Tribune-Chronicle - ... are hurting these days," said Newman, manager of Cash Loan Inc ... We've seen a lot more people who were duped into bad ... that pawnshop loans are "off the books," and not on their credit cards, Notowitz added. Leslie Paladini of San Bruno has used ...