Ep. 204 Krugman's Worst Blunders
Contra Krugman
Tom Woods
4.7 • 822 Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2019
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
We take listener questions in this episode, from Krugman's worst blunders, to how the Fed might return interest rates to their natural level, to a former Fed official's implication that the Federal Reserve ought to make Trump's reelection more difficult.
Show notes for Ep. 204
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| 0:00.0 | Contra Krugman, episode 204. |
| 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 arrows of Krugman. |
| 0:16.0 | Nobel Prize winner, newspaper columnist, and Destroyer of Nations. |
| 0:20.0 | It's time for Contra Krukman. |
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| 0:42.2 | Hey, everybody. Tom and Bob here. |
| 0:43.5 | Another episode of Contra Krugman and another week of lousy Krugman columns. |
| 0:48.7 | But... |
| 0:49.3 | And to clarify, we don't mean that his economic content. |
| 0:53.1 | That's sort of a given. |
| 0:54.1 | Yeah, we just mean that the columns themselves are just excruciating. |
| 0:58.8 | And we're just not going to do that to you. |
| 1:00.6 | You know, we're not obligated to do that. |
| 1:02.1 | We're not obligated to do the podcast, period. |
| 1:04.4 | So instead, we have solicited questions. |
| 1:07.8 | And, man, have we got some juicy ones for you? |
| 1:13.4 | I solicited some from my supporting listeners group, supporting listeners.com, over in the Tom Wood Show Elite, and man, did they |
| 1:18.7 | deliver? Bob's been complimenting them ever since they came in. So we're going to get to those. |
| 1:23.5 | Bob has a few also that he'd like to start by running through. So maybe Bob will do that first and then you'll kick it back over to me. |
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