Of course there can be no free market under the current monetary paradigm so it is really strange to hear people talk about it. Becasue we allow money to be a privately issued store of value it can accumulated making it a usurius instrument of power. as Soddy noted in 1934, "To allow money to become a source of revenue to private issuers is to create, first, a secret and illicit arm of the government and, last, a rival power strong enough ultimately to overthrow all other forms of government." monetary.org