The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.
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There's a difference between a free market and free-for-all market.
Free markets are amazing.
There is no pure free-market economy.
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
I strongly believe in a free market, and it is great when companies make money and pay their people well.
Every market has some rules and boundaries that restrict freedom of choice. A market looks free only because we so unconditionally accept its underlying restrictions that we fail to see them.
People think the free market is a philosophy, they think that it is a creed. It is none of those things. Free market is a bathroom scale, it is a measuring tape, it's simply a measurement.
A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic freedoms that we think are important.
The basis of the free market is anytime you can generate revenue or profit, you've created value in excess of the resources you consume in a society. That's probably the most unbiased utility function there is, as opposed to someone's opinion.
There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.