Free markets are anything but. Inflation has cooled from it’s 40-year high, but in a strange twist of fate, prices haven’t come back down yet. Turns out corporations like charging more, and they’ll do it as long as you let them. When Edmund Hillary set out to climb Mt.Everest a reporter asked him why, his reply was, “Because it’s there.” It’s sort of the same reason big companies have jacked up their prices, because they can. To be clear, corporate greed isn’t driving all inflation — just a big, wet chunk of it. Depending on your source — in this case, progressive advocacy group Groundwork C…