this one store in brooklyn reporting 10 to 12% more buy there s month over last year and 25% more sellers. what about the numbers nationwide? it is not just a local phenomenon. right. store owners always see an uptick this time of year this time more significant, michigan, missouri, maryland up 25, 40% even 50% over last year, selling, pawning, buying, sometimes all three. visitors might pawn their grandmother s wedding ring, use the cash to buy gifts for the family and come back next spring with their tax refinanced and buy that ring back. people are now realizing that pawn brokers sell merchandise, they buy merchandise and they make you a nice sizeable loan on the merchandise giving you the option to come back and retrieve the item for a very small interest rate. one of the best selling items t diamond engagement rings, they are cleaned up like new, put in fresh boxes
getting personal about tax cuts. when mr. boehner was here in cleveland, he attacked us. there were no new policies from mr. boehner. the president takes on the top republican in the house. as that wildfire burns around boulder, colorado, we meet a family that s lost their home and now have to start over. and, dollar value. i get a little bit of everything here. that s a spoon off the lusitania. patriots super bowl ring. we ll spend some time with the world s most famous pawn brokers on this thursday, september 9th. from abc news, this is world news now. you probably wouldn t think of this, but pawn shops right
so how does a candidate who eight out of ten voters have never heard of, who still has little name recognition. what do you do? you buy 60 seconds of super bowl ad time. michigan venture capitalist and former gateway computer ceo rick snyder is running for the republican nomination for governor of michigan and his campaign ad titled one tough nerd ran last night and will run statewide for the next several weeks. michigan has tried career politicians. we ve tried happy talk. and we re 50th out of 50, dead last. it s time for a nerd. growing up in battle creek, rick snyder started reading fortune magazine when he was 8. by 23 there you go. savannah, that got aed go egood out of you. one tough nerd. one last story we told you about scott lee cohen, dealing a blow to respectable pawn brokers everywhere, the democratic
never tried to cut her throat. i never did anything like that. i never knew her as a prostitute. she was a massage therapist. i still don t believe that she was a prostitute, even though, you know, she pleaded guilty to something. you know what, i still don t believe scott lee cohen s dropped out of the race. i really don t. it s just not fair. i m going to kind of miss it. pawn brokers everywhere were kind of hoping that maybe he d restore their good name. not so much. what a story in the 2010. chuck, thank you. coming up next, we break out the monday morning quarterbacks to break down the biggest hits and misses from super bowl xliv. plus, the super bowl sideshow. advertisers shelled out millions to grab your attention, but were any of this year s ads worth remembering? we ll get into that. your watching the daily rundown only on msnbc. if toyot for being the most fuel efficient car company in america, well, then how do you explain all this?