How does the government regulate market activities?
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For the Feds, the interstate commerce clause of the Constitution. They do it also under the general welfare and common defense clauses. \n\nStates have the absolute right to regulate commerce within their borders (intra-state commerce), which is why all those professional licenses are done by the state.
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the requirements, policies and rules that govern government loans vary from each country. from what country are you? better check with the website of your government's trade and industry department or website for government banks.
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By ensuring that the things on the market are safe for use
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The theoretical free market means that there are no government restrictions to doing business, except the rules regarding private property, intellectual property and so on.  Competition determines who stays in the market and who exits the market.
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A system like communism, where all the means of production ar econtrolled by the government. The government owns any business that operates domestically and thus controls who gets hired, and at what rate of pay, what hours they work, etc.\n\nIn the former Soviet Union, this went as far as the government deciding your profession for you.
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A market is a place/medium where buyers and sellers can transact common stock of various entities.
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In economics they refer to the tax and benefit systems an employer must incur to do business and also labor and product market regulations which include minimum wages, start up costs and working conditions.
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regulations are governered by each district/city council so it pays to contact them\n\nhowever you may have problems with the\nResource Management Act\nHistoric Places Act\n\nSo contact your local council
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The TAA (Trade Agreements Act) basically forces anyone selling a product to the federal government that the country of origin must be on the "approved" list of countries manufacturing the product.  Go to the link below for some good info on the subject.
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Through Government decisions. It is officially known as 'Administrative Price Mechanism' or APM. It will be phased out completely soon and fuel prices shall be left to be decided by market forces; that same old Demand -Supply function of Elementary Economics which we all study in our schools and colleges.
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Regulatory capture is a phenomenon in which a government regulatory agency becomes dominated by the interests of the industry that it oversees. In the United States, the most notorious historical examples are the Civil Aeronautics Board, which protected airlines from competition; the Interstate Commerce Commission, known as the "trucker's best friend," which restricted competition in transportation; and the Department of Agriculture, which implements policies that are alleged to favor the interests of large corporate farming concerns over those of consumers and family farmers. The term is central in a stream of research that is often referred to as the economics of regulation, which is critical of earlier conceptualizations of regulatory intervention by governments as being motivated to protect public goods. Two often cited articles are Laffont & Tirole (1991) and Levine & Forrence (1990).
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U.S. industry is controlled by the demands of the market (we, the buyers).  Unfortunately our government is NOT controlling what it should, and that is price fixing, monopolies and unfair trade practices. The breakup of Bell Telephone was a very good move, look what THAT brought us. Too many special interests now blocking similar breakups. Our oil companies are now holding back millions of barrels of oil to prop up the price (now that the election is over). In 1976 the Alyeska Pipeline was flowing at 96% flow rate, today it is under 30%, with twice as many producing wells on the north slopes.  THAT is what a monopoly gets you.  \n\nAffirmative action is the least of out worries...
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Competition in most fields not heavily regulated by the government is much higher.\n\nIn many cases, managment didn't adapt, and those businesses shrank or were bought.
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Government cannot control prices or inflation by regulation.  Well they can, but that's called communism, I believe.  They can control inflation, however, by swiching back to the gold or silver standard - but they won't because that would mean they couldn't run up debt like they do now.
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I don't believe any industries should be regulated by the government.\n\nThe reason is that by regulating anything, certain inequities are created by the government.  That flies in the face of its founding principles.\n\nBeyond that, it's very ineffective.\n\nTake TV for instance.  Television is regulated by the FCC.\n\nTo start your own station, you need to obtain a license from the FCC.\n\nAnd the fee for that license is huge.  Only a few can afford this license.\n\nWhat you get is a situation like network TV.\n\nThe airwaves are public property but only a few get to use them.\n\nLack of variety means the same boring old programs.\n\nFewer sources of information means that viewers only get a narrow point of views.\n\nWould more regulation fix that?  Let's compare it to a similar industry:\n\nA similar yet largely unregulated industry is the Internet.\n\nEveryone can use it and more importantly, everyone can create on it.\n\nLook how fast it has developed.\n\nThere are literally billions of sites there worldwide.  One can communicate globally instantly.\n\nThe cost is low because ISPs don't need to pay an insane amount of fees, so just about everyone can afford it not only as a tool to receive information, but to transmit and create information.\n\nI believe that not only is more regulation bad, but we need to start deregulating a lot more industries.\n\n\n*I know someone might mention identity theft, but theft is theft.  On the Internet or in the real world.  That doesn't call for new laws but correct application of existing ones.
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Publicly traded companies are regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission.  Information can be found on those companies online.  Yahoo has a financial section that has links to much of the available info.  Privately held companies in the US have no public information requirements, that I know of.
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Private sector. (Food Industries, licensed to operate by the government, after ALL essential government checks, and assured compliance by the company. Government monitoring of quality requirements are very regular).