[cripplecreek]

Buy under the table when you can.

[Redbob]

Tip your waitress/waiter in cash; tempt them to underreport...

[meyer]

Buy under the table when you can.

Trade favors instead of hiring. Say your cousin is a painter and you're an auto mechanic. You tune up his car and change his oil. He paints your living room.

[khnyny]

Buy under the table when you can.

When a government/banking system is incompetent, wasteful and corrupt, the citizens resort to an underground economy and a black market mentality. Either that or they leave the country.

The global economy has created complicated challenges which exceed the problems of the pre-1930's depression and subsequent market regulation. Wild swings in the market, etc. In short, imho, no knows what they're doing.