"Consumers Can’t Choose Not to Do Business" - Ian Welsh on free markets

Free market fundamentalisms in the US has done a great deal of damage by claiming the only ethic that matters is greed.  The free market is not self regulating, the invisible hand does not always work to the benefit of society as a whole (as Adam Smith well knew), greed is not always good, and free markets naturally tend towards unfree markets in which the choice for consumers is to take what is offered or go without. 

Good example industries he picked: credit cards, telecoms, and healthcare.