Question: In economics, a free market is a system in which the prices for goods and services are determined by the open market 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.

The concept of free market contrasts with regulated market, in which a government intervenes in supply and demand through various methods such as tariffs used to restrict trade and protect the economy. In a free market economy, prices for goods and services are set freely by the forces of supply and demand and are allowed to reach their point of equilibrium without intervention by government policy.

Although free markets are commonly associated with capitalism within a market economy in contemporary usage and popular culture, free markets have also been advocated by free-market anarchists, market socialists, and some proponents of cooperatives and advocates of profit sharing. Criticism of the theoretical concept consider systems with significant market power, inequality of bargaining power, or information asymmetry to be less than free, with regulation being necessary to control those imbalances.

The laissez-faire principle expresses a preference for an absence of non-market pressures on prices and wages, such as those from discriminatory government taxes, subsidies, tariffs, regulations of purely private behavior, or government-granted or coercive monopolies. Friedrich Hayek argued in "The Pure Theory of Capital" that the goal is the preservation of the unique information contained in the price itself. 1. what is a free market system?
2. are they commondly associated with capitalism?
3. are prices set freely?
4. by?
5. can the government intervene?
6. is free market and regulated market the same?
7. what is a regulated market?
8. what principle is mentioned?
9. what is laissez-faire?
10. from?
11. anything else?
12. what?
13. and?
14. aret there more?
15. please mention them.
16. who argued about about the goal being preservation?
17. in what?
18. did he write a paper or thesis about it?
19. called?
20. are free markets popular? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. a system in which the prices for goods and services are determined by the open market and consumers
2. yes
3. yes
4. the forces of supply and demand
5. no
6. no
7. a government intervenes in supply and demand
8. tariffs
9. expresses a preference for an absence of non-market pressures on prices and wages
10. discriminatory government taxes,
11. Yes
12. , subsidies,
13. tariffs
14. yes
15. regulations of purely private behavior, or government-granted or coercive monopolies.
16. Friedrich Hayek
17. of the unique information contained in the price itself.
18. yes
19. "The Pure Theory of Capital
20. no

Q: CHAPTER XXIII.

News of Importance

"Don't be alarmed; he is not going to shoot," cried Paul.

"Don't ye make too shure o' thet," ejaculated the cowboy. "Wot's he puttin' his hand into his pocket fer?"

"He has something there I fancy he wishes to conceal," went on Paul. "Empty the pocket, please."

"Let me go! This is highway robbery!" stormed Captain Grady.

He struggled fiercely to regain his feet. But Blowfen was the stronger of the pair and he easily held the rascal down with one hand, while with the other he brought several letters from his inside pocket.

Paul eagerly snatched the letters, in spite of the captain's protest. He glanced at them, with Chet looking over his shoulder.

"Well, what do you make out?" asked Caleb Dottery. He didn't quite like the way matters were turning.

"I think we will be safe in making Captain Grady a prisoner," replied Paul slowly.

"Yes, make him a prisoner by all means," put in Chet. "He is a villain if ever there was one. If we can't prove it I think my Uncle Barnaby can."

At the reference to Barnaby Winthrop Captain Grady grew pale. It was evident that his sins were at last finding him out.

It did not take Jack Blowfen long to act upon Paul's suggestion. He disarmed the captain and made him march into the house, where he bound the fellow in very much the same manner as Dottery had bound Jeff Jones.

While he was doing so Paul showed the letters taken from the prisoner to Caleb Dottery. Chet, while a second reading was going on, commenced to ransack the house.

1. Yes
2. Captain Grady.
3. Blowfen
4. No
5. He easily held Captain Grady down.

Numbered questions:
1. was someone confined?
2. who?
3. who confined him?
4. was the captor weak?
5. how do you know?

input: In a career spanning more than four decades, Spielberg's films have covered many themes and genres. Spielberg's early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as archetypes of modern Hollywood blockbuster filmmaking. In later years, his films began addressing humanistic issues such as the Holocaust (in Schindler's List), the transatlantic slave trade (in Amistad), war (in Empire of the Sun, Saving Private Ryan, War Horse and Bridge of Spies) and terrorism (in Munich). His other films include Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the Indiana Jones film series, and A.I. Artificial Intelligence.

Spielberg was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, to an Orthodox Jewish family. His mother, Leah (Adler) Posner (born 1920), was a restaurateur and concert pianist, and his father, Arnold Spielberg (born 1917), was an electrical engineer involved in the development of computers. His paternal grandparents were immigrants from Ukraine who settled in Cincinnati in the first decade of the 1900s. In 1950, his family moved to Haddon Township, New Jersey when his father took a job with RCA. Three years later, the family moved to Phoenix, Arizona.:548 Spielberg attended Hebrew school from 1953 to 1957, in classes taught by Rabbi Albert L. Lewis. 1. who is the article about?
2. where was he born?
3. his religion?
4. what was his mother's occupation?
5. her name?
6. year of birth?
7. did dad's name?
8. profession?
9. year of birth?
10. where were his dad's parents from?
11. did the stay there?
12. where did the go?
13. when?
14. how long has the subject of the article been making movies?
15. is any of his work named?
16. what is the first one listed?
17. it's subject?
18. how many are listed in total?
19. when did he attend a special school for Jewish people?
20. in what years?
21. who taught him? Return numbered answers in your output.

output:
1. Spielberg
2. Cincinnati, Ohio
3. Orthodox Jew
4. a restaurateur and concert pianist
5. Leah (Adler) Posner
6. born 1920
7. Arnold Spielberg
8. electrical engineer
9. 1917
10. Ukraine
11. No
12. Cincinnati
13. first decade of the 1900s
14. four decades
15. Yes
16. in Schindler's List
17. the Holocaust
18. 11
19. Yes
20. 1953 to 1957
21. Rabbi Albert L. Lewis