This makes sense. Prices are literally encoding information - first the demand for the item being priced and then the cost of supplying the item. The price of beef is signaling a lot of phenomena including consumer tastes, weather, costs for feed, slaughter, and transportation, etc.

You could argue that central banks putting non-market pricing on the money supply distorts the information that a market-priced money supply would transmit effectively - and that's why all these crises seem to originate in the finance sector.