Ep. 191 Krugman Admits Hurting Trump Better Than Helping the Country, When It Comes to Infrastructure
Contra Krugman
Tom Woods
4.7 • 822 Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Bob flies solo to point out a shocking admission in Krugman's column: He actually thinks Democrats are lucky that Trump backed out of an infrastructure deal, even though Krugman also believes the deal would have helped the country. Bob goes on to explain what's wrong with Krugman's economic arguments for more government infrastructure spending.
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| 0:00.0 | Contra Krugman, episode 191. |
| 0:05.4 | Welcome to the podcast that takes apart Paul Krugman's New York Times column. |
| 0:10.1 | Join us as Tom Woods and Bob Murphy teach economics by uncovering and dissecting the |
| 0:14.8 | arrows of Krugman. |
| 0:16.0 | Nobel Prize winner, newspaper columnist, and Destroyer of Nations. |
| 0:20.1 | It's time for Contra Krukman. |
| 0:24.4 | Hey, everybody. It's Tom and Bob here. Oh, wait, that's not Tom and Bob. It's just me. It's Bob. |
| 0:29.7 | Tom is doing something. He announced the public reason, so I think it's fine for me to say he, |
| 0:34.5 | it was his daughter's graduation, and we got a lot of stuff going on traveling he's |
| 0:38.9 | traveling we're all traveling and uh just didn't work out for us to record and so that's what i'm doing |
| 0:44.2 | may i say just incidentally it's kind of funny when i read people on the internet who just hate tom |
| 0:51.4 | with a burning passion i don't mean they think he's a wise guy. I mean, so do I. |
| 0:56.8 | I'm saying the people that truly view him as an enemy to be defeated. And there are people who |
| 1:03.4 | really think like that about him. If you knew him, he like runs around frazzled all the time |
| 1:09.6 | because of his daughters and how he can't let them down. |
| 1:14.2 | That doesn't mean all his ideas are right. |
| 1:16.2 | I'm just saying those of you who think he's sitting around plotting to take away your freedoms or something. |
| 1:21.5 | I just, I'm not mad at you. |
| 1:23.4 | It's just funny how wrong you are. |
| 1:26.4 | Okay, I'll move on. |
| 1:27.9 | So we're talking about Krugman. |
| 1:29.4 | Now, in contrast, the lovable fuzzy time, by the way, you know what? |
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