This has led to an explosion of debt-buying companies, which buy and often resell debt for pennies on the dollar.
Other off-price retailers, which buy excess inventory from designer brands, are expanding in the city.
Most wages and prices are set in Cuban pesos (CUPs), 25 of which buy a dollar.
In most managed care companies, which buy doctors' services, care is far more fragmented.
That is why the bonds were first laundered through "small and obscure brokerage firms", which buy them at realistic discounts.
The island has trade deals only with five Latin American countries, which buy a tiny slice of its exports.
And it would almost certainly invite retaliation by European governments, which buy a lot of technology from American defense contractors.
Some funds of funds are marketing so-called seeding platforms, which buy pieces of hedge funds in their infancy.
In 2006, the city sued three wholesalers — which buy the cigarettes from the manufacturer and resell them to retailers — for violating the law.
It has lost some of that to "prime" money funds, which buy corporate debt, over the past month as investors regained some appetite for risk.
Victims receive calls within 24 hours from crash investigators not the police but "claims-management" firms which buy up online police reports to identify potential clients.
