Black Market

  

Categories: Ethics/Morals, Econ, Trading

If you’ve ever pirated music, bought illegal drugs or firearms, or accepted money for a side job without reporting it as taxable income, congratulations--you’ve contributed to the unmeasurable part of GDP known as the “black market.” This allows people to skirt around rules, regulations, and of course, taxes.

Because the black market is--by definition--unregulated by the government (they do try, though), it often ends up being regulated by violence instead. See: The Sopranos.

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Finance allah shmoop what is money laundering Whoa whoa whoa

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This guy needs to be taxed and legitimized And after

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taxing he gets out of the wash and has shrunk

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to a ten dollar bill But at least he can

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go out in public now Ok Ok So that's not

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sort of money laundering The government's worried about money laundering

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means trying to hide money you make illegally by setting

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up fake businesses running the money through those businesses as

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if while they're actually legitimate riel things real sales happen

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And then to continue the money laundering story you show

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some profits on those businesses for which yes you then

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get taxed But then the money is quote legitimized unquote

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in the eyes of the government so that you can

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freely spend it on clothes and jewelry And you know

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maserati's that go one eighty five The idea is that

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you create fake companies when you launder money fake accounts

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fake customers So it looks like the money is coming

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from a legal normal business when it's really coming from

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shady deals like a drug dealing and stuff like that

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for better or worse the movie theater business was a

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key tool in laundering money for the mob in the

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early twentieth century and that a movie could be licensed

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from a studio for a fixed fee of say a

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hundred bucks a night and then magically even though the

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movie was eight years old and in black and white

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that movie theater sold out three shows a night every

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night for a month generating tens of thousands of dollars

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in revenues which would then launder bootlegging alcohol e kind

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of money back into the normal system so that the

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theater owner could pay for you know private school and

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orthodontia and all that stuff for his kids and leave

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a substantial tip for their surprisingly well dressed garbage collector

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And if you've seen breaking bad while you know that

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walter white mastered money laundering that carwash magically had huh

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Hundreds of cars go through it every day even though

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in reality it only had a few dozen but the

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government wasn't counting cars It had no idea how bigger

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little the carwash was and frankly it well didn't really

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care as long as it was able to tax the

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money coming in from walter's high octane blue meth so

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the lesson Money laundering is bad Walter white isn't a

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