Strikingly, he has just appointed a free-market economist as an adviser.
In the words of the high-level panel of experts appointed by Obama, "Free nations must protect themselves, and nations that protect themselves must remain free".
For every rational businessperson reassured by the fact that Mr Obama has appointed economically literate free traders, there will be a union leader moaning that a bunch of Clintonian retreads will never deliver the change America needs.
At other points of the album, Kanye flexes his self-appointed free thinking hinting that his judgement of slavery is mild compared to what might happen on a "wild day".
When Mrs Thatcher appointed Alan Peacock, a free-market economist and vice-chancellor of the private-sector University of Buckingham to chair the last inquiry, she expected him to recommend that the BBC take advertising.
In 2013, the newly appointed head of Qeshm free trade zone spoke of "a vast loose financial mafia" that had been "looting the island's riches en masse".
It's a bit of a crapshoot, because those judges are free, once appointed, from any accountability to the state's chief executive.
In New Jersey, Hickox, who returned from a stint working for Doctors Without Borders in Sierra Leone, appointed a lawyer to free her and called her treatment "inhumane" and "poorly planned".
Having made a series of decisions (joining the Nazi party and the SS, for instance) that led him to be appointed transportation administrator, how free was Eichmann to refuse to organise the deportation of Jews to the death camps?
The architect George Edmund Street was appointed, and had almost free rein in his work.
