A Gold Star For The Free Market

With rare exceptions — namely, the small handful of people who inherit great wealth and the even smaller number who profit by defrauding consumers or investors — wealth accumulated in markets is produced by those who have much of it. Such wealth would not exist were it not for the productive efforts of those who accumulate it. Nor would such wealth exist if the efforts of those who accumulate it did not actually improve the well-being of other people.