have a single piece of evidence to justify the charge. even though the president keeps repeating it, and n.e.c. director keeps repeating it. sandra: should be challenged on that. larry: of course they have to be challenged on that. price control is a terrible idea but using government regulators to control the entire economy is an equally bad idea, and sandra, shutting down the economy for whatever reason is a bad idea. sandra: we saw the l.a. times piece that it would fire you up, larry, it did. i couldn t believe it when i read through it. if inflation persists, the government should step in to manage strategic prices. no lessons learned. larry: my former boss reagan defied the odds. lifted the oil price controls, one of his first things in early 1981, i was little guy there as