“When the black day of August 15, 1971 arrived, we free-market economists predicted that shortages of all sorts of products would result from the price control…. On the day of the freeze, everything seem[ed] to be functioning smoothly, and so the general mood [was] one of euphoric success.” “When Tricky Dick imposed Phase I in … Continue reading “Energy Facism” (Rothbard 1974 speaks to us today)