free market

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Paradoxically, the union has embraced the principles of Adam Smith: Let the free market work.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026

Armstrong, and others in the crypto world, say the free market should reign and that banks can simply pay higher interest rates to compete with stablecoins or get into the stablecoin business themselves.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

The future of Rodman was of great interest to Europe's most successful clubs with the potential to pick up a world-class player in the free market.

From BBC • Jan. 23, 2026

So the advisory firms arose from a free market to offer them analysis.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 9, 2026

The fate of Scion Capital turned on these bets, but that fate was not, in the short run, determined by an open and free market.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis