Quote from: Spring Tide on October 12, 2015, 04:42:07 PM

Quote from: ngupowered on October 12, 2015, 03:44:47 PM

Here's a checklist for you - yes-or-no questions:
In the US., do private businesses:
a) set their own prices among each other, and
b) do they compete with one another.

He got your point, stop being annoying
The free market is free from any intervention by a government, price-setting monopoly, or other authority.

Apparently he didn't get it, given his response below. And that's not the definition of free market we are discussing.

Quote from: RealBitcoin on October 12, 2015, 04:43:01 PM

Or you are not taking my posts seriously.

Well, how can I?
First you say that Webster's is "pretty much spot on", only later to recant and state "that's only one part of the free market", when I pointed out what the definition really says.

It seems that you are unable to distinguish between an unregulated market and a free market. Indeed, investopedia.com calls a free market a "A market economy based on supply and demand with little or no government control.".

So I reiterate that in the US., do private businesses
a) set their own prices among each other, and
b) do they compete with one another?