The black market economy runs rampant in the north

Economy of a country is in two sets, the legitimate economy and the black market economy. The legitimate economy in my own understanding is the economy that is regulated by the government.

The government controls all structural issues of the economy such as macroeconomics policies, international trade, exchange rate policies etc.

Under black market economy all economic transactions operate in vacuum. There are no regulations at all. I have been struggling to make the analysis between the two economies, but finally I came to conclusion that the black market economy is more powerful than the legitimate. This power lies in the fact that it survives in difficult times such as political crises, financial crises to mention a few. In the black market economy there is no discrimination in all economic dealings: if you want to be rich you can. No license is required to run a business.

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