Ep. 195 Trump Demands Lower Interest Rates; Krugman's Head Explodes
Contra Krugman
Tom Woods
4.7 • 822 Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Krugman is horrified at Trump's pressure on the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates. Yet he thinks a case can be made for doing precisely that. What is Krugman to do?
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| 0:00.0 | Contra Krugman, episode 195. |
| 0:05.8 | Welcome to the podcast that takes apart Paul Kruikman's New York Times column. |
| 0:10.5 | Join us as Tom Woods and Bob Murphy teach economics by uncovering and dissecting the arrows of Krugman. |
| 0:16.4 | Nobel Prize winner, newspaper columnist, and destroyer of nations. |
| 0:20.5 | It's time for Contra Krukman. |
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| 0:57.3 | Hey, everybody, Tom and Bob here with another episode of Contra Krugman. |
| 1:01.0 | Hard to believe this is the last Contra Krugman episode before the Contra Cruise. |
| 1:04.9 | The next time you hear from us, we will be on board the Celebrity Solstice, having a great old time cruising through Alaska. |
| 1:12.3 | What we're going to do today, of course, is cover a Krugman column. |
| 1:16.0 | But before we get into the column for today, our friend Bob here has a little something he |
| 1:20.4 | wants to say about a different column. |
| 1:22.4 | He says, it's really, it's just outrageous, but it doesn't rise to the level of an entire episode. So he'd like to |
| 1:28.6 | talk for a few minutes. And since it's always, you know, it's always tough to get Bob to say anything |
| 1:33.2 | on this show. If he's giving me the opportunity, I want to hand it to him. So Bob, the floor is |
| 1:37.8 | yours to say what you like. Thank you. I feel like the little kid at Thanksgiving dinner or something gets to carve one piece of the turkey or something here. This is great. So yeah, folks, what's going on here is we are trying to determine which column |
| 1:48.6 | to do and the one that we are going to do had a lot more economics in it. But when I realized the |
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