I think this is true only if your definition of a free market is what the US likes. After all there are a lot of restrictive laws needed to set up this "free ma

I think this is true only if your definition of a free market is what the US likes. After all there are a lot of restrictive laws needed to set up this "free market", like patents, trademarks, etc. Not to mention subsidies and tariffs affecting things as well. By some measures the US isn't even in the top 10 on market freedom: https://www.heritage.org/index/ranking https://www.heritage.org/index/ranking