Sentences with phrase «commodity in a free market»

We can treat our spiritual connections as just another commodity in a free market, but should we want to?

Naturally it is the Supply and Demand equation that drives hotel room pricing as much as these factors drive pricing for most commodities in our free market.

Not exact matches

The banks are also free to use it to buy and sell more fantasy financial products, or speculate in commodity markets, or lend it to the Russian Mafia, or squirrel it away in tax havens, or use it to pay bonuses.

Christopher Pyne's policies in the education portfolio were underpinned by liberal values of the free market, autonomy and education as a private commodity.

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For the uninitiated, demo trading is the practice of trying out an online commodity trading platform on a simulated basis — in a free demo trading account, you're granted simulated funds, you're placing simulated orders in the markets and you're shown simulated profits and losses on what your trades might have done for you if you were futures commodity trading on a live platform with live funds.

This is because, if there are stocks available to short, and the futures price is in backwardation, a trader can make an arbitrage profit by shorting the commodity in the spot market, buying the futures contract and investing the proceeds at the risk free rate.

Unfortunately, unlike the «mainstream» console / PC market, mobile games didn't become popularized in the public eye as paid commodities; a large part of why games like Angry Birds and Clash of Clans have seen so much success is because anyone with a smartphone or tablet can download and play them free of charge.

The model of a free market that so enamors libertarian economists is, I believe, mostly a fantasy, except in a limited range of manufactured commodities where production dominates cost and barriers to entry are low.

The government setting the cost of a commodity at a point where it become cost prohibitive for people to actually, you know, use it, is not capitalism, let alone «free market capitalism» in any rational sense of the word.

«The key here is that you get a percentage back, tax - free, locked in for 20 to 30 years guaranteed,» says Alan Lurty, senior vice president of commodity markets for ING's Life Business Group.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission said in a statement Friday: «One component of the agency's mission is to oversee orderly derivatives markets and to police those markets to ensure they are free of fraud and manipulation.