But we don't have a free market. The government has heavy handed regulations distorting the market and spent the last years creating money out of thin air and

But we don't have a free market. The government has heavy handed regulations distorting the market and spent the last years creating money out of thin air and killing small businesses. The government propping the market up during the pandemic kept alive the myth that the market is always growing but also caused a terrible inflation. Now that the market is going back to reality the government can't just print more money again - or inflation will kill the entire country. The incoming crash will hopefully pop some of the bubbles the government created in the last 20 years. But it will be painful.