Consumers, Workers, and Monopolies: Free Markets Serve All

Trader Patrick King works the floor at the New York Stock Exchange, in New York City, on May 12, 2022. John Minchillo/AP Photo

Commentary 

Consumers aren’t a mere slice of society; they aren’t some separable category from anyone else. Anyone who buys goods and services is a consumer. In a modern economy, a consumer can buy goods and services with help of a tool called money.