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When Martin’s great-aunt brings him an unusual pair of shoes, Martin is determined to find the strange marketplace where she bought them—the Black Market, a constantly relocating swap meet where the world’s strangest and most dangerous items are exchanged by some very suspicious (and...

From a former college basketball player and Executive at Nike, a "riveting" (Sports Illustrated) insider's account into the business of college basketball exposes the corrupt and racist systems that exploit young athletes and offers a new way forward For Merl Code, basketball was life. In...

At first, med student Misty Heiress just wants to help. With her cousin Jillian in constant pain, and the doctor refusing to prescribe, Misty steals opioids from the Virginia Beach pharmacy where she works. But when Jillian starts reselling them to local dealers and gets big money, Misty grabs an unbelievable opportunity to get out of crushing debt. Soon Misty's boss, Sanjay, learns the truth and wants in. In no time, their illegal business dominates the street - and racks up a fortune. But when demand quickly outstrips supply, Sanjay way overplays his hand - and the Feds come calling.

The Narendra Modi government's sudden demonetization of '500 and '1,000 notes in November 2016 failed to put a dent in the black economy but caused untold hardship to hundreds of millions of Indians. It has crippled the country's economy for a long time to come. In this book, Arun Kumar, the country's leading authority on the black economy, tells us why Modi's gambit failed.

The Black Swan is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, Antifragile...

At a few hundred dollars a ton, scrap metal is decently valuable – and it's most certainly a good source of extra revenue for those who run body shops, construction sites, junkyards and the like. And if you're a thief, it's also a pretty good thing to steal – not only is the demand for scrap metal rather robust (therefore making it pretty easy to find a willing buyer), but scrap metal also looks like any other metal, making tracing it back to its true owner very difficult.

Black Ops Advertising dissects this rapid rise of "sponsored content," a strategy whereby advertisers have become publishers and publishers create advertising - all under the guise of unbiased information. Covert selling, mostly in the form of native advertising and content marketing, has so blurred the lines between editorial content and marketing message that it is next to impossible to tell real news from paid endorsements.

Black Market Billions blows the lid off the world's fastest-growing illicit industry: organized retail crime. Hitha Prabhakar reveals how criminals with ties to terrorist groups around the world are committing huge product thefts, and using the profits to fund terrorist acts. Prabhakar connects the dots and follows the money - from consumers dying for a deal to terrorist cells eager to do the killing.

Philadelphia, 1947. When private investigator Cole Harper is summoned to the penthouse of Sam Hensley—a powerful but shadowy industrialist--he knows it's no ordinary case. Luxury goods, military surplus, and counterfeit money are disappearing from Hensley's warehouses, and the clues point to an operation as sophisticated as it is ruthless. But Harper soon discovers this is no simple theft—this is the black market at its most dangerous.

We live in a world of cancel culture and constant scrolling. Double taps and swipe lefts and swipe rights. Constant images of what you think you should look like and act like. We say all that to say that we don't give a shit about any of that. On this podcast we're ushering a new world order. Welcome to the black market.

Modern leadership development is underserving you. If you want to accelerate your growth and quickly raise your value as a leader, then you have to look beyond tradition and convention. Black Market Leadership® is made for you, the high-achiever and disrupter, to give you a competitive edge no matter your title or position. Hosted by Forbes Coach and leadership expert, Kevin Black, learn the art and science of leadership the way military leadership and elite Fortune 500 leaders do.

Black Market News and Your weekly Worldwide Weed Price Guide with your host Harvey O. Get your stash out and listen with the Heads while we laugh and learn.

Join Joel and Matt biweekly on their convivial deep-dive to the core of the human condition.

Black Market Reads is a menu for Black literary consumption and all of its spin-offs. Featuring conversations with Black artists who love to read and write and engage in arts and culture. PRODUCER: The Givens Foundation for African American Literature HOSTED BY: Lissa Jones PRODUCTION SERVICES: iDream.tv/Paul Auguston and Edie French INTRO/CLOSE: Derek Emery ARTWORK: courtesy of Ta-coumba Aiken

Explore the intricate balance between medication accessibility and regulatory oversight, as we unravel the complexities of the cialis black market and its implications for patient care.

Playback is a long-form music podcast hosted by producers and musicians Nate Bridges and Brandon Niznik. Between them, they’ve worked with and recorded numerous artists across genres — and on Playback, they bring that experience to the art of deep listening.Each episode, Nate and Brandon take turns choosing an album to review, discuss, debate, and place within its broader musical, cultural, and historical context. From classic records to overlooked gems, the conversation goes track-by-track into production choices, songwriting, performance, and why the album matters — or doesn’t.Rooted...

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In 2012, Steve Green, billionaire and president of Hobby Lobby, announced a purchase of a Biblical artefact—a fragment of papyrus carrying lines from Paul's letter to the Romans, and dated to the second century CE. Noted scholar Roberta Mazza was stunned. When was this piece discovered, and how could Green acquire such a rare item? The answers, which Mazza spent the next ten years uncovering, came as a shock: the fragment had come from a famous collection held at Oxford University, and its rightful owners had no idea it had been sold.

"Sanctions Eased, Iran Sends Black Market a Strategic Warning" is from the March 19, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Thomas Erdbrink and narrated by Barbara Benjamin-Creel.

"CIA Arms for Syrian Rebels Supplied Black Market, Officials Say" is from the June 26, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Mark Mazzetti and Ali Younes and narrated by Kristi Burns.