The black market, the illegal sale of goods and services at prices that the market will bear, is doing fine in the Dominican Republic. According to the latest report in Listin Diario, total sales by black marketeers are close to RD$50 million a year. Their business is carried out far from the law, without scruples and always on the lookout for a quick kill. The black market works every day. Concert promoters, baseball officials and other entrepreneurs try and put a stop to the market, but to little avail, and, in fact, the black market is often supplied with tickets from the promoters themselves. There is a lot of action and few faces. The market works for movie houses, baseball games, sporting events or music festivals. The finely tuned “nose” of the business always looks for a fresh event to work. Dollars, short-term usury loans, check cashing, food coupon exchange are all part of the market and interest rates or “fees” are murderously high.