If you ever needed something to show you how bad government intervention is:
Essentially everything the government took control over increased my up to 4 times the level of inflation, and those things where the government largely stayed away from (as much as you can expect from the government) the price relative to inflation actually dropped.
i cannot get enough of govt. incompetence -- it is so easy to find because it is everywhere!
Its a good thing you can't get enough, Supply is high!
ha ha ha
I'm not sure if i buy into all the conspiracy theories. That would involved attributing enough intelligence to the people in charge.
Poe's law in action.
I've heard stuff like that enough that I legitimately can't tell the difference between the real thing and sarcasm