Supply and demand in action - the world cocaine market
Saturday, May 23, 2009
by Jim Riley
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Action to cut off supply in the global cocaine market is leading to higher wholesale prices and a degradation in the quality of product supplied…
An “alternative” way of illustrating the effect of on prices of a reduction in supply, from this short BBC video:
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