In the USA it was called Prohibition.
Buying on the 'installment plan' is probably the oldest concept, pre- credit card.
President Rutherford B. Hayes called his wife Lemonade Lucy. His wife's real name was Lucy Ware Webb Hayes. She got the nickname because of her support of the temperance movement, which wanted to ban alcohol.
It is called an ex post facto law.
Alaska became a part of the US when Russia badly needed some money and gladly took up a guy named Seward on his offer of buying Alaska for a relatively cheap price. At that time, American citizens called Alaska "Seward's Folly" becauose they thought buying Alaska was a waste of money. They called it just an "ice box", after all. However, then gold was discovered in Alaska. The same people who called Seward a fool now went back to calling him a genius. What sarcasm...
They are called sweatshops, but they are also found in the United States. Many brands have illegal sweatshops in large cities in old districts where they find vacant property to set up.
I think you are looking for the word 'bootlegging' or 'moonshining'
It's called insider trading. It is HIGHLY illegal.
The strategy of selling a stock and then buying it back at a later time is called "short selling."
Illegal alcohol was known as 'sly-grog'.
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Trading
The process of selling and then buying back the same stock is called a "round trip trade."
It is called bootlegging
The buying and selling of different goods is called commerce, or imports and exports.
speculation
This is called commerce.
production