opacity
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Webb was championed by retail investors, who saw him as a rare outlier in a corporate world known for vested interests and opacity -- and a headache for regulators whose failings he laid bare.
From Barron's
We are on a philosophical fence, she says: We tolerate the opacity of human decision-making despite years of research showing our own fallibility.
But PBMs will continue to face scrutiny, not simply because of how much money they make, but because of their opacity, which means employers and regulators can’t easily tell whether they are getting good deals.
Leave it to Wall Street to take a cheap, simple, elegant idea and junk it up with fees, complexity and opacity.
In a market where opacity is the whole point, it is also a tricky feat.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.