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Old Jul 28, 2007, 03:36 am   #53 (permalink) (top)
tivodan1116
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It is very simple. A "free market" is where everybody can carry on trade without any obstruction. This is a dream and a fantasy. It has never existed and will never exist. There will always be somebody trying to control, manipulate, gain advantage where trade and money are involved. It is called human greed, avarice. (look the word up) This is reality.
Your definition of a free market is so completely outside of the dominant paradigm that you cannot possibly debate the topic rationally. Go get an economics book and read the chapter where "free market" is defined, and then come back here and retract your statement that there can never be one.

"Free market" means free of government interference. What you are describing is not the definition of a free market.


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