{"id":1966688,"date":"2023-07-07T13:48:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T17:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disturbing-trend-picking-up-around-the-nation-americans-recent-searches-say-it-all\/"},"modified":"2023-07-07T13:49:30","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T17:49:30","slug":"disturbing-trend-picking-up-around-the-nation-americans-recent-searches-say-it-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disturbing-trend-picking-up-around-the-nation-americans-recent-searches-say-it-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Alarming Trend Spreading Across the US &#8211; Recent Searches Speak Volumes"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdisturbing-trend-picking-up-around-the-nation-americans-recent-searches-say-it-all%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1966688&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>A Troubling Trend: Americans Turning to Pawn Shops for Quick Cash<\/h2>\n<p>A troubling trend in Americans searching for pawn shops online could signal how desperate people have become as inflation and other economic troubles have forced them to find alternate methods for getting their hands on quick cash.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Pawn shops are, of course, not an ideal way to trade goods for cash and are widely known to prey on those who are desperate for groceries, gas or other basics.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But in an economy where prices have risen drastically on everything under President Joe Biden\u2019s watch, people might have nowhere else to turn.<\/p>\n<h3>The Proof is in the Google Search Data<\/h3>\n<p>An analysis of searches on the engine for \u201cpawn shop near me\u201d dating back to 2004 shows such inquiries have skyrocketed.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, that search reached a rate surpassed only by July 2019, and in the first week of this month, it climbed past that point.<\/p>\n<p>The top five states where people were most interested in the often predatory businesses were Texas, Nevada, Georgia, Mississippi, and Louisiana.<\/p>\n<p>Searches for the terms \u201cpawn shop open\u201d or \u201cpawn shop near me\u201d also soared in the first week of July.<\/p>\n<p>People in Oklahoma, Texas, Nevada, Alabama, and Mississippi were most likely to reach for the terms.<\/p>\n<p>Searches for \u201cjewelry\u201d and the video game retailer \u201cGameStop\u201d also have increased throughout Biden\u2019s presidency. GameStop is notorious for offering people a handful of dollars for video games that originally sold for $60 or more.<\/p>\n<p>While the results of these and other searches are not definitive evidence that economic hardship has fallen on people nationwide, Rick Harrison of the show \u201cPawn Stars\u201d explained last year that he had seen some troubling trends in his own Las Vegas-based pawn shop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGas prices are killing people, just the price of food has gone,\u201d Harrison told Fox News last August. \u201c[Inflation] has gone nuts, and I really believe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-suggesting-a-tax-hike-right-now-is-a-terrible-idea\/\" title=\"Why Suggesting A Tax Hike Right Now Is A Terrible Idea\">lower-income people<\/a> it affects much worse than it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/inflation-has-gone-nuts-pawn-stars-rick-harrison-says-more-young-people-are-selling-their-belongings\/\" title=\"\u2018Inflation Has Gone Nuts\u2019: \u2018Pawn Stars\u2019 Rick Harrison Says More Young People Are Selling \u2018Their Belongings\u2019\">affects upper-income people<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since that interview, searches for pawn shops on Google have more than doubled.<\/p>\n<p>Pawn shops are likely to offer people significantly less than any given item they present at a counter might be worth.<\/p>\n<p>Some of that stands to reason as the business has to carry the risk of the item not reselling or the potential it might sit on a shelf for a significant amount of time.<\/p>\n<p>Most criticisms of the business model rest on high-interest loans people take while pawning items such as precious heirlooms, jewelry, and firearms for a fraction of what they are worth.<\/p>\n<p>They pay these loans or forfeit the item they put up as collateral.<\/p>\n<p>In any event, Americans are struggling under an administration that prioritizes the interests of the so-called elites over the people who need relief.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, it appears many people are turning to pawn shops as a last-ditch, desperate attempt to cover their bills or basic expenses.<\/p>\n<p>Like so many other indicators of the state of people\u2019s individual financial circumstances, a sudden interest in pawn shops is a sign of the times in which we live.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/disturbing-trend-picking-around-nation-americans-recent-searches-say\/\">Disturbing Trend Picking Up Around the Nation &#8211; Americans&#8217; Recent Searches Say It All<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>as a last resort for those facing financial difficulties. However, the surge in online searches for pawn shops among Americans reflects the increasing desperation caused by inflation and economic challenges. Unfortunately, people are resorting to these less favorable options to obtain quick cash, despite the well-known drawbacks and limitations of pawn shop transactions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2006,"featured_media":1966689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1966688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2006"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1966688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1966689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1966688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1966688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1966688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}