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- adjective Not
regulated
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- adjective not regulated; not subject to rule or discipline
- adjective without regulation or discipline
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Examples
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But you'd be wrong: this was the fag-end of the Clinton era, when Democrats were as mesmerised by financial markets as Republicans and the word "unregulated" was seen as go-ahead and exciting rather than worrying.
Bankers and politicians have turned food into a betting game | Aditya Chakrabortty 2011
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But you'd be wrong: this was the fag-end of the Clinton era, when Democrats were as mesmerised by financial markets as Republicans and the word "unregulated" was seen as go-ahead and exciting rather than worrying.
Bankers and politicians have turned food into a betting game | Aditya Chakrabortty 2011
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The idea that the banking and financial system was "unregulated" is just ludicrous.
Gordon Brown's economic "genius" exposed Not a sheep 2009
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The burden for the government's recent economic experiment in unregulated greed is being borne by most of us, with the suddenly unemployed and the shareholders in the government-sanctioned dissolutions bearing more than the average portion of distress.
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You guessed it: the big phone and cable companies who remain unregulated while the FCC shirks its responsibilities.
Josh Silver: Why it's "Radical" to Fight Corporate Control of Government (And Why Net Neutrality Is a Remedy) Josh Silver 2010
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McFadden clearly does not believe that consumers in unregulated markets will make good health care decisions.
McFadden on the Prescription Drug Program, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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"I was pig biting mad when foreign drugmakers spent hundreds of millions in unregulated advertisements on behalf of Dem candidates supporting their Healthcare vote in a deal with David Axelrod," he writes, taking a break from perfecting his strawberry, banana and Zoloft smoothie.
HUFFPOST HILL - OCTOBER 25TH, 2010 The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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And then run your social experiment in unregulated insanity and hypocrisy there.
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You realise this same rationalisation of poor behaviour could also apply to child pornography and other adventures in unregulated free enterprise, right?
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It is almost universally accepted except among market-worshippers who seem unable to believe that anything that happens in unregulated markets could possibly be bad.
Comments of the Week, 2003-03-19, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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