- published: 19 Apr 2009
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A black market or underground economy is a market in goods or services which operates outside the formal one(s) supported by established state power. Typically the totality of such activity is referred to with the definite article as a complement to the official economies, by market for such goods and services, e.g. "the black market in bush meat" or the state jurisdiction "the black market in China".
It is distinct from the grey market, in which commodities are distributed through channels which, while legal, are unofficial, unauthorized, or unintended by the original manufacturer, and the white market, the legal market for goods and services.
Worldwide, the underground economy is estimated to have provided 1.8 billion jobs.
The literature on the black market has avoided a common usage and has instead offered a plethora of appellations including: subterranean; hidden; grey; shadow; informal; clandestine; illegal; unobserved; unreported; unrecorded; second; parallel and black. This profusion of vague labels attests to the confusion of a literature attempting to explore a largely uncharted area of economic activity.
Brotha Lynch Hung - Black Market
Brotha Lynch Hung - Black Market
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Black Market Price Is Right (GAME)
BLACK MARKET with Michael K. Williams (Trailer)
*NEW* UNLOCK ALL BLACK MARKET ITEMS GLITCH! ALL BLACK MARKET ITEMS ARE NOW FREE...! (BO3 Glitch)
Nex cassel - Black Market feat. Noyz Narcos
9mm Parabellum Bullet - Black Market Blues
Rise Against - The Black Market (Full Album with Lyrics)
How to Buy Nukes on the Black Market
Black Market
Sneak around the corner
Budapester Strasse
Black Market
Peek around the corner
“La Police qui passe”
Come! I’ll show you things you cannot get elsewhere
Come! Make with the offers and you’ll get your share.
Black Market
Powdered milk for bikes
Souls for Lucky Strikes
Got some broken down ideals? Like wedding rings?
Spoken:
Sh! Tiptoe. Trade your things.
Chorus:
I’ll trade you for your candy
Some georgeous merchandise
My camera. It’s a dandy
Six by nine - just your size
You want my porcellain figure?
A watch? A submarine?
A Rembrandt? Salami? Black lingerie from Wien?
I’ll sell my goods
Behind the screen.
No ceiling, no feeling. A very smooth routine
You buy my goods, and boy my goods are keen.
Black Market
Coocoo clocks and treasures
Thousand little pleasures
Black Market
Laces for the missis, chewing gum for kisses.
Come! And see my big binoculars this week.
Price? Only six cartons one puff a peek.
Black Market
Milk and microscope for liverwurst and soap.
Browse around I’ve got so many toys.
Spoken: Don’t be bashful
Step up, boys.
Chorus:
You like my first edition?
It’s yours, that’s how I am.
A simple definition
You take art, I take spam.
To you for your “K” ration: my passion and maybe
An inkling, a twinkling or real sympathy
I’m selling out - take all I’ve got!
Ambitions! Convictions! The works!
Why not? Enjoy my goods, for boy my goods