Bad regulations are always at the root of black markets and the criminality they spawn.
Crime is on the rise too, and where there are black markets, mafia-type protection rackets probably follow.
The perpetuation of destructive black markets is a perpetuation of crime and poverty.
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Black markets are fueled by desperation, greed, neglect, and ill-conceived prohibitions.
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Sales in London, New York or Miami, all cities with vibrant black markets for shoes, push scores higher, as do purchases made during school holidays.
But we could not rule out that once they left here, the cigarettes may have ended up somewhere in the black markets of Italy or another European state.
But as a dossier of evidence on nuclear black markets published this week by the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies points out, Mr Khan's business model wasn't unique.
They abuse the vast power of technology to build black markets for weapons, to compromise law enforcement with huge bribes of illicit cash, to launder money with a keystroke of a computer.
But when the sub-prime mortgage market turned sour, the darling of the financial markets became the Black Hole equation, sucking money out of the universe in an unending stream.
Asked whether Apollo would take advantage of the wave of cheap capital to go on an acquisition spree, Mr. Black said that rising stock markets actually made it a great time to sell or list companies.
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Retail employees typically work Black Friday in gas stations, markets and drugstores that are indeed open.
In more established European markets the company recently introduced black shelves.
In 1991 the collapse of the Soviet regime spawned caviar chaos, sending millions of dollars' worth of glistening black eggs sloshing into new and unfamiliar markets.
But Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder expands on the concepts in Fooled and its follow-up The Black Swan and goes far beyond financial markets into a more general theory of randomness and volatility and their importance in life and nature.
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Perhaps the most important cause of the thriving black economy is excessive regulation of labour and product markets.
Under the gaze of television cameras, Yoshizawa Yasuyuki, the 42-year-old head of the Bank of Japan's capital-markets division, was driven away in a black sedan.
The black box investment strategy over at ClearStream has been as volatile as the markets, with the investment model moving quickly in and out of the big emerging market ETFs, gold and oil all summer.
With all the talk in the past three years of Black Swan events, it is worth thinking about what would happen to world markets if Saudi Arabia descended into chaos.
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States with weaker labour markets, like South Carolina and Michigan, also tend to have larger black populations than low-unemployment states like Iowa and Montana.
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Markets also will be eyeing news reports on the strength of post-Thanksgiving Black Friday holiday sales for signs of how the economy is holding up, Gero said.
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Once again, the wise black box run by the investment managers at ClearStream said Monday that by their analysis of the emerging markets, it is best to be in cash.
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