Comment by sph

The free market is an innocent scapegoat that never existed in any government. As long as the State makes the laws, it is a form of state planning. The only different between Soviet Russia and modern Western countries is how heavy the hand of the state tries to move the needle of the market.

But I agree on the sentiment: everybody seems to have decided the state should control the market even further than it did three decades ago. Free market was never given a chance.