Motley Fool: Can Payday Lenders Survive?. Payday lenders (PDLs) and pawnshops are tremendously profitable businesses. I’ve written about some of these companies before, but because of new guidelines from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation that may affect the entire payday-lending industry, the time has come to do a thorough comparison among them.
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