Friday, March 02, 2007

90% Market Share

Any business would kill for such a market share. One organization has done it fairly consistently for many years. And, they've done it at low costs. They sell a product whose middlemen and users bear a lot of the cost and bear it willingly. This year's production is up 25%. It seems as though there is no limit to the size of this market.

The market is opium and the manufacturer is Afghanistan.

1 comment:

Flimsy Sanity said...

I believe we went to war in Afghanistan because the Taliban was stopping the production of opium not because it was a training ground. Drugs are second only to oil in value and it would take a lot to convince me that influential people are not connected to the trade.