We've never had a genuinely free market. And we never will have a genuinely free market. And considering how badly the closest thing we've ever had to a free market (the derivatives market) has performed (utter failure), I think that's a very good thing.

In order to have a genuinely free market, we would have to eliminate our military industrial complex, and end our subsidies of agricultural products and corporate welfare. I don't see that happening any time soon.