Raymond Liu

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1,052 appearances 6 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 20 Aug

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Morning Brew Daily · Oil Prices Keep Climbing & ‘Moana’ Flops at the Box Office · 14 Jul 2026 podcast

That actually did well, setting a franchise record with $160 million during its opening weekend.

So to me, it seems like Disney just played it wrong this time around and felt like it was kind of rushing to get this live-action Moana out.

A lot of people are saying, look, 10 years from the original animated classic, if you're trying to play on the whole nostalgia factor, 10 years is not that long to kind of land.

So...

It seems like they just had a big misstep here.

Okay, we're going to take a quick break and we'll come back with Kayla's trends.

Yeah, so pawn shops can be viewed as this sort of bellwether for consumer behavior, especially when they are in need of cash fast.

Because these are customers that don't want to deal with the big banks, who often prefer customers seeking large loan amounts.

I'm talking like five figures, maybe even six figures.

These are customers who are more in need of sometimes a thousand, couple thousand, just to kind of get them through the month.

But this also kind of points to the K-shaped economy, which we've talked about many times on this pod, where the American consumer can be basically on two different tracks, the affluent consumer who has the means to keep spending and spending and spending, kind of uplifting and keeping the economy stable.

And then you have the consumer who has to struggle with higher prices for everyday goods.

So these pawn shops,

provide sort of a relief for those in need to pay for their groceries, pay rent, maybe even take an occasional vacation.

You know, I think everyone deserves a vacation.

So these are folks who are putting up their items to get a loan for cash.

They don't want to deal with the big banks.

And kind of like these pawn shops are taking advantage of the situation.

Yeah.

I mean, these are customers who also can afford.

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