+1 came here to point out what should be obvious: the US is not, and has never has been, a free market. There is, and always has been, "rules and regulations" beyond the "natural" which dictate the behavior of the market.

The closest thing I'm aware of to a free market was the cryptocurrency driven markets of the "Dark Web" somewhere between the rise and fall of Silk Road. Yet even that market was embedded within, and ultimately governed by, the jurisdictions the network was hosted.