NPA This Week in Pawn

Coin World
The West Point Mint holds, in addition to millions of foreign gold coins, nearly 2,000 United States gold coins of various denominations dated between 1850 and 1929. 

Las Vegas Review-Journal
The Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade Show — the firearms industry’s largest global event — plans to expand to two more Strip locations by 2021 amid growing demand for exhibitor space.

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American Banker
Many Americans have felt the frustration of getting the runaround from a customer service agent or finding an unhelpful recording at the end of a financial company’s complaint line. When someone has been cheated out of money and their family’s well-being is at stake, this experience is more than an annoyance — it’s an injustice that for too long left people with little recourse. That is, until 2011 when the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau launched the consumer complaint database, which documents and helps people resolve disputes with financial companies.

CBS MoneyWatch
Kathy Kraninger, the president's nominee to head the main federal agency tasked with protecting consumers from financial abuse, failed to sway Democrats after a three-hour hearing before the Senate Banking Committee.

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Forbes
Now the next big bitcoin price boost could come as soon as next month, potentially powering bitcoin above the $10,000 mark and beyond (despite a worrying warning over bitcoin's future from the European Union last week).

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NSSF
Judge Kavanaugh graduated Yale College with honors in 1987 and Yale Law School in 1990. He clerked for two judges on two separate U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals and for Justice Anthony Kennedy on the U.S. Supreme Court, the same seat for which he is nominated.

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