The goal of free trade or voluntary exchange is not to create jobs but to create wealth.
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Instead, it is up to the knowledge and judgment of each individual every time he or she engages in voluntary exchange.
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Using the government to prevent voluntary exchange is stopping people from doing things they want to do, and this is always bad.
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The odds against a widespread voluntary exchange have also worsened because hedge funds have bought Greek debt from European banks in recent months.
But the unions and collective bargaining agreements we have were not created under circumstances of voluntary exchange, and restrict freedom more significantly than right-to-work does.
The prices for goods and services that emerge from voluntary exchange provide a measure of the alternatives people are willing to sacrifice to get those goods and services.
The beauty of the free-market price system is that all prices are the result of voluntary exchange and, hence, reflect the personal preferences of all members of society.
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The duty to bargain and exclusive representation of unions means that the process of entering into these contracts is not one of voluntary exchange comparable to other voluntary business contracts.
Voluntary exchange can provide public goods and internalize externalities.
Nor, can they be trusted to coordinate their actions through the centuries old institution of voluntary exchange in free markets or through the voluntary organizations that are the bedrock of a civil society.
Rather than offering free entry and exit, voluntary exchange, perfect information, competition and choice, the exchanges will simply offer more bureaucratic jobs to monitor the redistribution of tax dollars in the health system.
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The company created a voluntary lock exchange program and replaced 400, 000 locks in 21 countries for free.
If implemented, such a "voluntary" exchange wouldn't qualify as a default, which has to be binding, and therefore no CDSs would be paid out.
To this end we invite Greece, private investors and all parties concerned to develop a voluntary bond exchange with a nominal discount of 50% on notional Greek debt held by private investors.
Just as a floating foot and minute would lead to a lot of building and cooking errors, floating money would and does foster a great deal of malinvestment and trade disharmony for turning voluntary, economy-enhancing exchange with stable money as the measuring stick into something where trading partners are increasingly at odds.
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Instead, suffering from a lack of what we want with no avenue to get what we want, we go to war in order to forcibly take that which would otherwise reach us through voluntary, mutually wealth-enhancing exchange.
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Our data sources include voluntary disclosures by companies, Securities and Exchange Commission filing, and estimates from Forbes researchers and outside sources.
The agreement is for nine years and will take effect on Sept. 1, Modern Media said in a voluntary statement at the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
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The Chicago Climate Exchange has companies and other organizations assume voluntary targets for reductions in their greenhouse gas emissions.
Republican-backed proposals have included making the exchange of information between private companies and the government voluntary.
He called on Congress to make the Securities and Exchange Commission's supervision of these so-called consolidated supervised entities mandatory--not voluntary as it now is.
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