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Re:How Elizabeth Warren Took Down the CEO of Wells Fargo, an... by BirdieNZ on Monday November 28, 2016 @10:23PM (#13060515)
"A free market is a system in which the prices for goods and services are determined by the open market and consumers, in which the laws and forces of supply and demand are free from any intervention by a government, price-setting monopoly, or other authority."

Most, if not all Western countries are not free markets. They are often partially free, but definitely not completely free. And there are very few countries in the world right now, if any, which have a free market.

So no, he doesn't live in a free market.

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Re:How Elizabeth Warren Took Down the CEO of Wells Fargo, an... by muninn_ on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @07:11AM (#13062545)
The definition is too stringent to be useful, and I made note of the Wikipedia definition (because I knew people would google search "what is a free market" to look up the definition since they don't know it) and already gave at least a partial explanation as to why I disregard that aspect of the definition. It's a useless definition, it's like having a philosophical discussion with a solipist.
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