There may be something to this black-market theory.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Euro Panic] Reference

Many turn to black-market lenders, despite high interest rates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Myanmar Loosens Yoke on Farmers] Reference

But often, the black-market cigarettes move through a hidden economy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trade In Black-Market Cigarettes: Hot, Dangerous] Reference

The black-market exchange rate last week shot up from 10,000 to 14,000 to the dollar.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Despot Clings to Power] Reference

For murky reasons, the black-market price of ivory quadrupled in the past six months.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aiming At The Elephants] Reference

But until last week Washington considered black-market nuclear dealings a hypothetical risk.    From Wordnik.com.  [For Sale] Reference

But that could change once word of the huge prices for black-market nuclear material spreads.    From Wordnik.com.  [For Sale] Reference

Tonight, are officials in Baghdad turning a blind eye to missing money and black-market horrors?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 4, 2007] Reference

Also tonight, a look at the black-market in exotic animals, big bucks being made off big cats in America.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 22, 2005] Reference

As official and black-market exchange rates converged, a liquid and legal foreign-exchange market emerged.    From Wordnik.com.  [Learning to Leverage] Reference

Published estimates of Burma's foreign trade are greatly understated because of the volume of black-market trade.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 1999 CIA Factbook] Reference

Prescriptions of the drug are up 3100% over the past several years which only increases the black-market viability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charlotte Hilton Andersen: Did Adderall Really Make Lindsay Lohan Psychotic?] Reference

The government would gain 5.3 trillion lire in tax revenue if an estimated 500,000 black-market workers were registered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Into The Light] Reference

After the war, Mr. Burn mailed her hundreds of cartons of cigarettes, which were extremely valuable on the black-market.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journalist 'Micky' Burn, 97, dies; renounced Nazism to become British commando] Reference

Discovering the origin of a shipping container of black-market plutonium is more challenging, but by no means impossible.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Keep the Bomb From Terrorists] Reference

In Italy, immigrants have thrived in a robust black-market economy, despite the fact that they are not always officially welcome.    From Wordnik.com.  [Out Of The Shadows] Reference

There's also a reference to the celebrated Seinfeld episode in which Kramer and Newman buy black-market unrestricted showerheads.    From Wordnik.com.  [When it comes to showerheads, some Americans don't go with the (low) flow] Reference

It's one of the jobs of the central bank to make sure that the outflow of black-market money into dollars does not make a difference.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mystery Of The Weak Euro] Reference

Published estimates of Burma's foreign trade are greatly understated because of the volume of black-market, illicit, and border trade.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2001 CIA World Factbook] Reference

Cesare went off to foreign lands, where he distinguished himself by creating and running the largest single black-market ring in all of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Supermind] Reference

In 1993 he won damages from two British newspapers for alleging his involvement in the sale of black-market tickets to the Bolshoi Ballet.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Brother Speaks Out] Reference

COOPER (voice-over): There are dozens of species at Phnom Tamal (ph), all of them victims to the black-market animal trade or habitat loss.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 23, 2007] Reference

A high-school dropout, she set up a black-market business selling gin and homemade banana wine, and reportedly gained a reputation as a seductress.    From Wordnik.com.  ['The Programmer'] Reference

Intelligence officials think Al Qaeda has already obtained black-market cesium-137 and cobalt-60 and may be experimenting with RDDs in Afghanistan.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nagging Fear Of Nukes] Reference

Starlets will be coerced into revealing their livers, and black-market videos will be sold over the Internet of Pamela Anderson Lee's hip replacement.    From Wordnik.com.  [... And Popcorn Will Cost $30] Reference