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Originally Posted by RummyBoy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_market
From wikipedia, a reasonable definition: "A free market is a market system in which the prices for goods and services are set freely by consent between sellers and consumers, in which the laws and forces of supply and demand are free from any intervention by a government, price-setting monopoly, or other authority."
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The manipulation we are talking about is done by bying or selling. Anyone's rights to buy or sell at some price is not affected. You are talking more like about laissez-faire, a subset of free markets.
Although this is more like hair splitting as free markets have pretty much never existed if the laissez-faire is the definition for free markets, or the one you quoted. Any law regarding markets makes it not "free", as it's government's intervention.
Free market is just a theory or more like a model, and it is teached that way, as a theory/model, not as a something we have.