Sentences with phrase «underground economies»

Lately, the Chinese government has expressed its optimism towards releasing a licensing program for cryptocurrency exchanges to prevent cryptocurrency transactions flowing into underground economies and black markets.

«Virtual currencies have become the top choices of underground economies.

«Xinhua News, official press agency of CN: Virtual currencies have become the top choices of underground economies.

Mark Bradford transforms materials scavenged from the street into wall - size collages and installations that respond to the impromptu networks — underground economies, migrant communities, or popular appropriation of abandoned public space — that emerge within a city.

His spectacular frenzies of color and form become visual analogues of the very urban landscape from which he scavenged his materials — poetic visual kaleidoscopes of the communities and underground economies to which Bradford's inherently referential source material gestures, and the volatile emotional admixture of desires, concerns and vitality that make up the complex socio - economic layers of Bradford's worlds.»

Bradford transforms materials scavenged from the street into wall - size collages and installations that respond to the impromptu networks — underground economies, migrant communities, or popular appropriation of abandoned public space — that emerge within a city.

«Bait, Inc.,» his 2014 solo show at Essex Street Gallery on the Lower East Side, included scavenged materials like copper and car parts that can generate underground economies.

There are almost 30 different tracks, including several covering how to navigate the thorny issues surrounding government and privacy, as well as two dedicated to hackers and threats, examining the growing underground economy, new classes of vulnerability and exploitation techniques.

«What we're seeing now is that people want to create more formal businesses, as opposed to doing business in the underground economy,» he says.

Consider what it would take to reduce the underground economy to zero: that kind of government intrusion into our lives would be unbearable.

Statistics Canada recently released this report on the underground economy in Canada — essentially an attempt to gauge the extent of «market - based economic activities, whether legal or illegal, that escape measurement because of their hidden, illegal or informal nature.»

The government's concern, of course, is not merely with measuring the extent of the underground economy.

Statistics Canada admits its estimates on the underground economy «are not as accurate or reliable as other estimates in the national accounts.»

Given the sweeping assumptions and methodological unsoundness evident in the above examples, sizing up the underground economy has much in common with voodoo.

• Worth an estimated $ 36 billion in 2008, the underground economy is relatively small in Canada.

StatsCan found that although the underground economy has grown since the last estimates in 1992, it did so at a slower pace than the overall economy.

The idea was «to observe the movement of this ratio over the years and determine if differences in movements could be attributed to underground economy activities.»

Whatever the origins, the new independents movement amounts to a potent underground economy — groups of companies that buy and sell for one another.

As StatsCan researcher Philip Cross pointed out years ago in a paper on Canada's so - called underground economy, we have become «conveyers of crude and moilers of metals.»

Measures include those announced in this and previous Budgets, and primarily reflect the impact of transition measures, such as restricted input tax credits, as well as measures to address the underground economy.

We can consider much of this $ 6.90 per unit of marijuana profit a risk - premium for participating in the underground economy.

That includes the internet's underground economy, but it also includes mainstream websites that simply aren't set up for Google's and Bing's web crawlers.

Our multilingual experts in threat intelligence, who have for years been embedded in the most hidden cyber-criminal underground, possess intimate knowledge of the underground economy.

With so few jobs available, Wilson told me, «many black males will give up and drop out of the labor market, and turn more to the underground economy.

But expert CaaS vendors are still part of the underground economy, and they provide other cybercriminals with verified commodities such as:

While the E-Verify system has well - documented problems (both in terms of falsely identifying legal workers as «illegal» and failing to catch unauthorized immigrants), making it universal could still kick millions of unauthorized immigrants out of work or force them into the underpaid underground economy.

There is not a wide or popular knowledge about the narcotics industry and intercepted narcotics within Ghana itself, due to the industry's operations and involvement in the underground economy.

The bottom line is that there is a lot of money to be made in legalizing things that have been part of an underground economy for decades.

«As a Board of Equalization Member, Betty Yee safeguarded our tax dollars, called out wasteful spending, and cracked down on the underground economy where unscrupulous businesses harm law - abiding taxpayers,» Yee explains in her ballot statement.

«There is an underground economy that thrives on workers who are overworked, underpaid and powerless.

The rest is socked away in people's homes and bank deposit boxes, or can be found circulating in the underground economy.

«For the financial sector, there is this underground economy that they're not tapping into,» Reyes said.

I'm very interested in learning more about the underground economy, where so many Americans are forced to turn.

The best stuff in Pacific Rim had nothing to do with missiles and monsters but the underground economy, the black market trading in kaiju parts, the mad scientists trying to figure out how to stop the world's end, the idea that our species was on the brink of extinction thanks to an external threat that showed no signs of slowing down any time soon.

«I've always been drawn to the underground economy.

Their arrests would lead to the collapse of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, and shake the underground economy to its core.

«But I've always been drawn to the underground economy.

The lesson focuses on the earnings trap, the poverty trap, the underground trap, the underground economy and the difference between equity and equality.

Learned financial entrepreneurship — in the underground economy in Chelsea or New Bedford.

But the for - profit Strayer University, Cottom informs us, has an underground economy of completed course assignments that are easily bought and sold.

Prohibition was, of course, a gigantic opportunity for the underground economy, and bootleggers and gangsters took full advantage.

Other taxpayers will do the wrong things: they will enter the underground economy and become tax evaders, making it difficult for legitimate business owners to compete against those who don't pay taxes.

For my first jobs as a kid, I was part of the underground economy — no cheque payments, just cash.

«I was perilously close to exposing a secret underground economy of promotion: favors and junkets and banquets and gifts that keeps the city in motion, and keeps underpaid writers at work,» Albo writes.

Gucci's work details the underground economy of the post-industrial Southern United States.

A casual community, a network of acquaintances, and an underground economy, the exhibition suggests, were as crucial in sustaining the lives of these then little - known artists as they were in shaping their burgeoning artistic practices.

It suggests a casual community, a network of acquaintances, and an underground economy.

By capturing such a vast amount of diverse material in a very short period of time, Simon is able to better understand what drives the underground economy in the United States and what goods Americans desire to own, but which are legally out of grasp.

SAN FRANCISCO — There is a huge, thriving underground economy involved in the theft, sale, manufacture and abuse of Apple IDs, Palo Alto Networks researcher Claud Xiao told the BSides SF hacker conference.

Suddenly, the scope of the underground economy expands exponentially if Bitcoin becomes an everyday source of personal transactions.