But isn’t ours a free market economy?  Meaning that there is no one single commander but rather millions upon millions of “commanders” making free choices in a free environment?

Seems to me that Hillary thinks she’s campaigning to replace Hugh Chavez, not George W. Bush.  Hillary would no doubt say she has good intentions in taking command of the economy, but I’m reminded of a C.S. Lewis quote:

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.