State and local government agencies, such as the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning in this fleet management example, can help spur innovation through free market competition.
Like, for example, whether or not anti-carbon regulatory obstructionism based upon flawed science and crony politics will continue to escalate energy costs, kill jobs, and sabotage success-proven free market competition.
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Not my idea of noble, free market competition.
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The World Bank and other advisers have warned that to keep growth strong, Beijing needs to curb the dominance of state industry and encourage free-market competition a factor that isn't reflected in the headline numbers.
The fact is automated sales tax technology freely available utilizes the very same technologies currently employed by twitter, UPS, FedEx and so many other application greatly simplifying business demands creating new efficiencies and free market competition.
Conservatives have a lot to like about it because it promotes free-market competition and consumer choice (more than 1, 000 different plan options exist) and, unlike every other major social program ever created, actually costs less than number crunchers first forecast it would.
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Liebowitz emphasizes that because these ratings agencies were protected from free market competition, and so granted a government favored status by regulation, they naturally did not want to create controversial political waves by rocking the subprime mortgage boat, which would endanger their regulation protected profits.
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It went against her notion of the free market and competition, which is exactly what she believed microfinance clients needed to operate in.
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These free market safety nets would be based on market competition, incentives, and individual choice.
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Democratic ideals and concepts of popular participation are closely linked with principles of competition and the free-market economy.
In the free software market Microsoft faces competition from many others including AVG, Alwil Avast, Avira Antivir and Comodo.
Think of Mr. Lawsky's team as embracing the free-market principle of competition.
What happened, he wonders, to open competition and the free market?
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But the investment industry disagrees, arguing that such costs are justified because mutual fund expenses are regulated by the competition of the free market, and what consumers are paying is simply the cost of doing business.
And do we understand that, because of this, the free market and strong competition are the best means by which ordinary people can get access to what is otherwise always going to be dominated by the bandit capitalists and the economically powerful ?
He implies that the idea of introducing free market principles of open competition to the space industry is some sort of liberal Obama administration conspiracy.
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Men like Rockefeller and Carnegie colluded to control prices, eliminate competition, and manipulate the free market in the name of their own narrow interests.
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For the first seven years Telmex held a monopoly on phone service, and it succeeded in imposing some of the highest prices anywhere in the world. (All bidders were offered a similar competition-free period.) The market opened to rivals in 1997, and Telmex tangled with competitors repeatedly over the high access fees it charged them.
My point is that the free market does a pretty good job of creating competition (like I said earlier barring excessive federal regulations which are sometimes necessary) thus driving costs down.
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But the challenge has always lain with the first half of Lincoln's phrase--that is, how to stoke that genius through a system that both rewards the inventor with a temporary business monopoly and protects the competition that lies at the heart of the free-market system.
Together, we discovered that a free market only thrives when there are rules to ensure competition and fair play.
This time when he tells banks and insurance companies that "a free market only thrives when there are rules to ensure competition and fair play, " they will do well to believe him.
First, is there not a contradiction in his passion for the single market, which is basically about free and fair competition, and his wish to exempt the UK from EU labour regulations, which are a key part of every country's competitiveness?
But Roosevelt also knew that the free market has never been a free license to take whatever you can from whomever you can. (Applause.) He understood the free market only works when there are rules of the road that ensure competition is fair and open and honest.
Mr. MIKE BELL (GM Employee): Everybody understands that GM needs to make more money, be more profitable, be competitive, and it's, you know, it's a free market and free trade now, so I mean it's stiff competition out there and there's so many different vehicles.
Big Oil's manipulation of the system is preventing competition in the fuels marketplace, an activity that should be anathema in any free, competitive market.
The EU's divisions between free-market liberals and state interventionists will be exposed in rows over subsidies to industry, competition rules and capping executive pay.
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