William R. Collier Jr. An American Freedomist

A free market is good because a “perfectly competitive free market” is one in which consumer demand is met by competing providers, it allows for no small group of buyers or sellers to dominate the market, and it shares profits with those who participate in creating them. How can we identify when the free market is being violated?

When a corporation or entity is able to influence price or availability over the interests, demands, and wants of consumers and when prices are influenced by anything other than availability and demand by consumers then it has violated the free market.

When a corporation lobbies the government for regulations that give large scale entities artificial advantages over smaller and newer competitors, or to protect methods and processes that are more expensive than competing methods and processes, then that entity has violated the free market.

When a corporation has a tacit or explicit guarantee of support or of insurance against failure by the government then that corporation has violated the free market.

When a corporation lobbies for policies, such as those that want to sell “carbon offsets”, or Nancy Pelosi’s favorite natural gas business (CLNE), that would suppress competing methods or mandate purchases of items not needed or wanted by consumers then that corporation violates the free market.

When a corporation cooks its books to artificially raise the value of its assets and reduce the measure of its liabilities because the managers get extremely high paychecks based on the balance between asserts and liability rather than simply serving he demand of consumers then that corporation has violated the free market.

When demand for a good or commodity is driven by speculation for the profit of investors who wish to buy and sell that commodity based on their beliefs about future demand and supply rather than ACTUAL demand by consumers and actual available supplies, as the futures market does, then the free market is violated.

When a needed and demanded commodity or product or service is artificially decreased in terms of availability by either government regulations and restrictions or by corporate planned production quotas that are deliberately set to keep supply down in order to keep prices high then the free market is violated.