Sentences with phrase «illegal market for»

Not exact matches

Bitcoin gained prominence in large part thanks to the Silk Road marketplace for illegal drugs and other black - market goods, a legacy that has persisted beyond Silk Road's shutdown.

Running illegal gambling operations, including recruiting people for foreign gaming junkets, was their main business, according to previously unreported court documents in China obtained by Bloomberg Markets as well as interviews with family members and former business partners.

And a proposed bill in Connecticut would make facial recognition illegal for marketing purposes.

Australia ranks eighth on a global scale for digital attractiveness thanks to low market costs and risks, but the country is the second highest illegal downloader, an EY report has found.

For most of the stock market's history, buybacks were actually illegal — considered to be insider trading — the thought being that if you ran the company, you would have nonpublic information to know when to buy shares.

(In the fragmented, state - regulated cannabis market, it is illegal for companies to ship marijuana products out of state.

«While casinos routinely look for suspicious bets at sports books and have worked with law enforcement to identify illegal activity, in some cases leading to criminal convictions, no such oversight exists for the illegal sports betting market,» he said

This digital - currency trading platform provided an online black market for money laundering of illegal drugs, weapons and human trafficking and other nefarious offerings.

One reason: In 2012, the company paid a $ 3 billion fine to US authorities for various illegal marketing activities, but remained under investigation for fraudulent sales practices in China and elsewhere, and could have faced criminal prosecution, according to the lawsuit.

Congress has made it illegal for Americans to shop at foreign pharmacies for cheaper versions of same drugs sold in U.S., and it hasn't appropriated the Food and Drug Administration enough funds to get competing versions of lifesaving drugs to market quickly.

While predatory pricing technically remains illegal, it is extremely difficult to win predatory pricing claims because courts now require proof that the alleged predator would be able to raise prices and recoup its losses.405 Revising predatory pricing doctrine to reflect the economics of platform markets, where firms can sink money for years given unlimited investor backing, would require abandoning the recoupment requirement in cases of below - cost pricing by dominant platforms.

Lawyers for Boeing present the dispute as a classic case of illegal subsidies and dumping, or selling products at below - market prices in foreign countries.

«Passing a law that makes it illegal for a 20 - year - old to purchase a shotgun for hunting or an adult single mother from purchasing the most effective self - defense rifle on the market punishes law - abiding citizens for the evil acts of criminals,» NRA spokeswoman Jennifer Baker said in a statement this week.

Cryptomarkets are defined as online markets where illegal products like firearms, sex services or drugs are offered for sale.

While the points made by these gentlemen are both valid and critically important, they fail to take note of four other dangerous subsidies: (1) the market perception that the Washington and Wall Street revolving door has rendered these firms immune from prosecution — even for repeated, illegal cartel behavior; (2) the ability to spend billions buying back their own stock, effectively propping up their own share price and bad behavior; (3) self - regulation with compromised bodies creating the market perception and reality of a competitive edge; and (4) Congress and the Supreme Court tolerating Wall Street running its own private justice system (mandatory arbitration) where corrupt acts are kept hidden from public view until they blow up into catastrophic events to the economy.

«We note that price manipulation and other illegal activities are on the rise in the stock market,» a spokesman for the securities regulator, Deng Ge, said Friday.

This week we take a look at the tumultuous digital currency market, arrests for illegal Bitcoin mining, and IBM's increased interest in the digital currency space.

There is a lot to unpack here, but let me start by making clear that if all cold emails were illegal, we wouldn't be driving successful email marketing campaigns for 2,500 companies worldwide.

While the bullish case for gold is directly contrary to the interests of the financial establishment generally, it is of extreme interest and benefit to the subset of the establishment that has made more than $ 1,000,000,000,000.00 in illegal profits over the past forty years by rigging the gold market, and that wishes to steal as much additional money as they can get away with.

Americans consume 60 percent of the world's illegal drugs — too profitable a market for dealers to ignore.

New intervention by the Consortium against illegal products destined for sale in the EU market

lewa and Benz r out, griezmann, lukaku, auba and dybala r young and will have d cash pits of Europe chasing them... which means astronomical transfer fees / wage (we'll definitely lose in d bidding war)... huguain is a viable option but with a transfer fee of 55m and 200k wages for a 29 year old????... BONKERS!!!!! I don't know about u but I feel we shld do everytin legal / illegal to get vardy... by 2 - 3 years time, others strikers will have surfaced but for now there's a limited pool and d richest club r d sharks... i would like any of d young strikers but it doesn't mean we shld pay 40m more than their market value like its an auction!!!!

Outlawing Spice has created a market opportunity for illegal trade, with dire consequences for the most vulnerable.

To remove the incentives for people to engage in illegal lottery, the 7.5 % income tax on the commission of lotto marketing companies will be abolished and the 5 % withholding tax on lotto prizes removed.

Concomitantly, as smuggling and illegal mining thrived on this highly lucrative market, China has also recently started a vigorous crackdown on illegal activity and took steps for greater regulation of the rare earth metals sector.

She said «It is important both as an issue of the well - being of our people as well as preventing any black listing of our two countries on the international commodity market for the use of illegal labour.

Airbnb officials says a recent poll it commissioned showed that 65 % believe lawmakers «should not penalize middle class families renting out their homes for less than 30 days the same way they penalize people operating illegal hotels and removing housing from the market.»

Also, Iyaloja Araromi Oke - Odo Market, Mrs Dupe Shonola and Babaloja General of Agbado Oke - Odo Market, Alhaji Abiodun Kosoko urged government to make examples of the perpetrators of the illegal act, but called for expansion and modernization of the mMarket, Mrs Dupe Shonola and Babaloja General of Agbado Oke - Odo Market, Alhaji Abiodun Kosoko urged government to make examples of the perpetrators of the illegal act, but called for expansion and modernization of the mMarket, Alhaji Abiodun Kosoko urged government to make examples of the perpetrators of the illegal act, but called for expansion and modernization of the marketmarket.

«For too long companies like Airbnb have encouraged illegal activity that takes housing off the market and makes our affordability crisis worse.»

But in Vietnam — a huge market for illegal rhino horn — it is being used as a hangover cure by the nouveau riche.

FARMED sturgeon on special diets could undermine the market for illegal caviar and help save the species from extinction.

More encouragingly, illegal trade in the pelts seems to be declining in China, the country where 60 per cent of snow leopards live and historically the main market for skins.

Illegal products entering the USA were less likely to be intercepted if they were coming from Africa, central Asia, Eastern Europe and Pacific Island states suggesting the existence of complex trade networks and the potential for the laundering of illegal products through legal Illegal products entering the USA were less likely to be intercepted if they were coming from Africa, central Asia, Eastern Europe and Pacific Island states suggesting the existence of complex trade networks and the potential for the laundering of illegal products through legal illegal products through legal markets

While national and international laws protect the Critically Endangered western lowland gorilla and the Endangered central chimpanzee, both subspecies continue to be threatened by hunters and traders seeking to supply the illegal commercial market and demand for bushmeat, particularly in urban areas.

«The brutality of animal poaching, wherever it occurs, feeds the demand of a multibillion - dollar illegal international market,» said Paul Fishman, the U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, at a press conference.

When you have these loopholes that allow for some trade in these products, that covers the illegal market.

«If we are to conserve remaining wild populations of elephants, we must close all markets because, under current levels of corruption, they can not be controlled in a way that does not provide opportunities for illegal ivory being laundered into legal markets,» said the paper's author, Elizabeth Bennett, WCS Vice President for Species Conservation.

Illegal poaching, fueled by the demand for alternative «medicines» and luxury goods in Asian markets, continues unabated.

Soon zookeepers and illegal pet collectors were clamoring for one of their own, and the birds began popping up for sale in markets around Indonesia.

And the United States has emerged as one of the world's largest markets for ivory and other wildlife products, both legal and illegal.

For example, Jack Abramoff's illegal lobbying conviction in 2006 generated a great deal of media coverage at the time, Xiao said, and the stock market reacted.

If the recent past is anything to go by, large scale production, marketing and sales operations for the new compounds will not take long to set up once synthetic cathinones have been made illegal.

Before Chinese demand for ivory began driving the black market and illegal killing of tens of thousands of elephants each year, it was Japan's market for hanko, personal seals used to sign contracts, that fueled the ivory trade.

This behavior is illegal in Europe and promotes avoidance of competition and makes it harder for newcomers to enter the market.

This is the challenge for publishers as they grapple with preventing illegal piracy,» said Devon Weston, director, market development, Digimarc Guardian.

I've been waiting for someone to pick up this story and I think there's a lot, lot more going on behind the scenes yet and there's a story waiting to be written about how a Chinese market product like the Dawa D7 winds up on the shelves at a major US retailer chock full of illegal software.

But while claiming that the retailer has «unprecedented power over America's market for books,» it is unclear whether there has been any activity that is illegal, or even if, ultimately, Amazon is hurting authors, at least in the short - to medium - term.

in order to fight off illegal downloads, I believe that within a couple of years the Russian market are going to be even more attractive for publishers and retailers.

For joint marketing with other financial companies (if they are a part of the marketing, it is not illegal to share information)

Unless you're buying or selling stocks on «insider information» (information about companies that has not been made public yet), which is illegal by the way, the price of each individual stock available for sale on the open market already takes into account all of the negative and positive information available about that particular company.