There were also no black-market transactions in Tehran on Thursday, as traders and their prospective customers stayed away, after having been scattered by riot police officers on Wednesday.
"I want a private means for black-market transactions, whether they're for non-prescribed medical inhalers, MDMA for drug enthusiasts, or weapons," Wilson told Wired magazine this month.
But Dr. ElBaradei, who spoke in Libya after visiting four previously undeclared sites where scientists had been working to perfect the enrichment of uranium, did express surprise that Libya had acquired a great deal of high-technology equipment needed to enrich uranium through black-market transactions that have yet to be disclosed.
"Our tax collection lost via black-market transactions literally kills this country… By curbing a little of this poisoning corruption, we could assign much more money to pensions and easily double factory wages".
How do the calculations allow for "black economy" transactions such as drug dealing or prostitution?
Whatever the rate, critics say, a steep federal retail tax, piled on top of existing state sales taxes, would encourage widespread illegal tax evasion, black market transactions and other forms of cheating, creating a cycle that would require even higher tax rates.
On River Road in Nairobi -- a crowded marketplace with a reputation for black market transactions and bribed law enforcement -- a beauty fad has taken Kenya's elite by storm.
"As with China, the use of cyber serves many purposes — principally black market transactions and old school espionage in a new domain," cautions Van Jackson of the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Honolulu.
Coburn has refused to budge from a demand that expanded background checks be done through a law enforcement or regulatory agency database portal instead of by a federal firearms license holder, arguing that any other system would encourage sellers to conduct black market transactions.
Misoprostol was taken off pharmacy shelves in Chile under Michelle Bachelet, the former president who now runs the United Nations' agency for women's advancement, so access to the drug is almost entirely a black market transaction.
And it gives new detail on specific deals, notably the now infamous Buconero ("black hole") transaction that was set up in 1999 and from which Citigroup reaped millions in fees.
