Showing posts with label black market. Show all posts
Showing posts with label black market. Show all posts
Monday, November 24, 2025

Illicit organ trade, in Nigeria and elsewhere

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 Here's an article about organ (kidney) trafficking, by a Nigerian physician, which has a good account of the background of the Nigerian...
Friday, October 17, 2025

The international black market in stolen smartphones

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Modern "pick pockets" are now  mounted on ebikes and swiping smartphones...  The NYT has the story: London Became a Global Hub for...
Sunday, September 14, 2025

The black market in stolen homing pigeons

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  Below are some excerpts from a long interesting story in the Washington Post, about how a boom in pigeon racing in China led to a rash of ...
Friday, August 22, 2025

Regulating markets for antiquities, to more effectively compete with black markets (Kremer and Wilkening in JEP)

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 Bans on illegally recovering, selling, and exporting archeological antiquities often result in black markets.  Michael Kremer and Tom Wilke...
Wednesday, May 21, 2025

There's a gray market for diabetes supplies

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 High prices and inadequate medical insurance force some patients to get their diabetes monitoring supplies second hand. Here's a sugges...
Saturday, March 1, 2025

Kidney transplant black market in Myanmar

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 BBC Burma has the story (I guess they haven't updated their country name...no doubt they still refer to the Gulf of Mexico, too:)  The ...
Friday, February 21, 2025

The dark-ship black market for sanctioned oil

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  Here's a paper that fills in the holes left in ship transport logs when they turn off their transponders. That happens a lot--more tha...
Saturday, February 8, 2025

US Ranks Highest in Global Overdose Deaths

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 Here's a sobering news article from JAMA: US Ranks Highest in Global Overdose Deaths by Samantha Anderer, JAMA. February 7, 2025. doi:...