Strange indeed. He seemed to be all over the place and talking out of both sides of his mouth. He doesn't believe in wage and price controls and then he asks for companies and unions to voluntarily self-impose them, in return for targeted tax cuts and regulatory relief. Bizarre.
History does give him credit for airline deregulation and PARTIAL credit for oil price deregulation.
Since he was all over the place he was bound to be right on something.
Toward the end he says if you just give this enough time, it will work, implying that it's going to look and feel like a failure right out of the gate. Then he implies that if it does fail, it will be the fault of the American people, a common thread in his speeches.