Payday loans, and advances on pay have been around since people paid other people to work for them. The need for small short terms loans has always attracted lenders willing to accomodate. When banks can’t or won’t accomadate a market need, others will step in. Loan sharks ran very profitable, although illegal, businesses. Pawn shops were there to provide temporary loans in exchange for property. Today there are paycheck stores in every poor area of our cities.

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