No, Goldman Sachs and Ben Bernanke are not an Illuminati planning a takeover of the free market system.
Obviously, Georgia has made strides in creating a effective free market system and more progress needs to be made.
But, I do not think it can be fixed by selecting an alternative to the free market system, as you suggest.
He wrote and spoke often of the Great Depression of the 1930s, generally assigning more blame to the government than to the notion of a free market system run amok.
These actions, which are against the laws of a free market system, were carried out in the name of the people, or "the consumer" who could not afford the market prices.
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Institutional investors, both public and private, hampered by conflicts of interest and impediments imposed by corporate interests, have failed to exercise the oversight that is an indispensable element of the free market system.
The Obama administration made much the same assessment of the still plunging economy, continued freeze up of the financial system, and need for continuing the unprecedented government intervention in the free market system.
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And that strikes me as a very sensible, simple proposal rather than getting into the business of having the government set people's compensation, which I think is a bad idea in a free market system.
However, understanding the nature and extent of that gap can and has been refined and increased over time, and this should remain a high priority for both reformers and champions of the current free market system.
Mr. JACQUES MARSEILLE (Economic Historian): (Through Translator) This situation is the culmination of several years of total incomprehension between the left, which has not wholly embraced the free market system, and the right, which backs down in front of every reform.
Expanded scopes of practice, in which a non-physician renders care independent of a physician, not only expand access to health care and have the potential to decrease the cost of healthcare, but also reflect a respect for the free market system.
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And while our ultimate success has and always will depend on the incredible industriousness of the American worker and the ingenuity of American businesses and the power of our free market system, we also know that as a nation, we've got to pull together and do some fundamental shifts in how we've been operating to make sure America remains number one.
The notion of reasonably widespread entrepreneurial opportunity underpins basic faith in the free-market system.
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"We believe in the rewards and penalties of a free-market system, " declared Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai.
They are also the best response to an attack that was, in one sense, aimed at the free-market system itself.
And fortunately, we are increasingly learning to practice it without knowing it--thanks to overconfident entrepreneurs, naive investors, greedy investment bankers, confused scientists and aggressive venture capitalists brought together by the free-market system.
An extraordinary 88 percent endorsed a bipartisan agreement that would put all possibilities on the table including tax and entitlement reform with the goal of generating a pro-growth, free market economic system that creates new jobs.
In a free-market system, consumers would decide.
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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.
"Having to defend the free-market capitalist system is a very good place to be in a Republican primary, " said Kevin Madden, a Romney adviser and former spokesman.
The beauty of the free-market price system is that all prices are the result of voluntary exchange and, hence, reflect the personal preferences of all members of society.
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But not for Michael Moore, who decided that our imperfect system is the fault of insurance companies and more broadly, the free-market aspects of our health care system.
There is no more noble or economically productive system than the free market.
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As the problems of ObamaCare inevitably emerge, the big question will be whether they will be blamed on the residual free-market elements of our health system or on the new government controls.
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So when people - when free market people say that this is something that we have to allow to go unfettered and unscrutinized, because of free market economics, what they don't realize is, is that they're bringing in a system which is an anathema to free market economics.
The push for monetary reform is on, and intellectuals seeking to reform the monetary system in accordance with free market principles are seriously debating two alternative solutions.
Finally, there is the overarching truth (indeed, requirement) that in a system of true free-market capitalism, two parties enter into a transaction only when they are both made better off, while at the same time not trampling the rights of a third party.
Lindsey, a former member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, is open to the idea of free-market currencies, and there is a growing movement to incorporate gold into the global monetary system.
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First of all, its banking system had not quite been caught up in the free-market craziness that preceded the crash, so the "fundamentals" were OK in its financial system.
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