A free market is an economic system based on supply and demand with little to no government control or intervention, where buyers and sellers can transact freely through voluntary exchange. In a free market, stock and foreign exchange prices are determined solely by traders without influence from availability or government-pegged exchange rates. While a completely free market is theoretical, existing markets involve some degree of government intervention through taxes, regulations, or restrictions.
A free market is an economic system based on supply and demand with little to no government control or intervention, where buyers and sellers can transact freely through voluntary exchange. In a free market, stock and foreign exchange prices are determined solely by traders without influence from availability or government-pegged exchange rates. While a completely free market is theoretical, existing markets involve some degree of government intervention through taxes, regulations, or restrictions.
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A free market is an economic system based on supply and demand with little to no government control or intervention, where buyers and sellers can transact freely through voluntary exchange. In a free market, stock and foreign exchange prices are determined solely by traders without influence from availability or government-pegged exchange rates. While a completely free market is theoretical, existing markets involve some degree of government intervention through taxes, regulations, or restrictions.
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A market economy based on supply and demand with little or no government control. A completely free market is an idealized form of a market economy where buyers and sells are allowed to transact freely (i.e. buy/sell/trade) based on a mutual agreement on price without state intervention in the form of taxes, subsidies or regulation.
In financial markets, free market stocks are securities that are widely traded
and whose prices are not affected by availability.
In foreign-exchange markets, it is a market where exchange rates are not
pegged (by government) and thus rise and fall freely though supply and demand for currency.
Investopedia explains Free Market
In simple terms, a free market is a summary term for an array of exchanges that take place in society. Each exchange is a voluntary agreement between two parties who trade in the form of goods and services. In reality, this is the extent to which a free market exists since there will always be government intervention in the form of taxes, price controls and restrictions that prevent new competitors from entering a market. Just like supply-side economics, free market is a term used to describe a political or ideological viewpoint on policy and is not a field within economics.