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Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas, Mitchell Schnurman Column.

By Mitchell Schnurman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jul. 20--BAD TIMES ARE GOOD FOR PAWN BUSINESS: Most long-term investors bet on prosperity, on the idea that society is getting wiser and richer, and that the economy is headed upward.

Cash America International offers a different play.

The Fort Worth company is the nation's No. 1 operator of pawnshops, and its success depends on the other end of the economic spectrum: the working poor, people between jobs, folks who can't walk into a bank and get a loan

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