The US, at least, has not been a free market for a long time. What we have is some form of (heavily financialized) crony statism, where a bunch of well connect

The US, at least, has not been a free market for a long time. What we have is some form of (heavily financialized) crony statism, where a bunch of well connected monopolies milk consumers shamelessly (health "care", higher education, etc).