the market
Where prices form
The market, with the definite article, usually means the stock market or financial markets generally: The market dropped three hundred points today.
It can also refer to economic forces of supply and demand as an abstract system: Let the market decide.
In everyday speech, the market may simply mean a particular store: I'm going to the market.
- brokerTransaction intermediary for hire
- consumerOne who acquires goods
- stocksOwnership stakes or inventory
- capitalismPrivate profit-based economy
- supply and demandPrice-determining economic forces
going rate · producer · derivatives · competition · trader · inflation · investor · laissez-faire · futures contracts · retailer · commodities · mixed economy · bonds · wholesaler · demand · fresh · crash · supply
the marketcentral planning
Government directs all production
command economy · socialism · state control · communism · planned economy
the marketcentral planning
Government directs all production
rationing · command and control · redistribution · gift economy · mutual aid
market, commerce, marketing, supermarket, markets, marketplace, mart, marketer, marketed