Contra Krugman, episode 211.

Welcome to the podcast that takes apart Paul Krugeman's New York Times column.

Join us as Tom Woods and Bob Murphy teach economics by uncovering and dissecting the arrows of Krugman.

Nobel Prize winner, newspaper columnist, and Destroyer of Nations.

It's time for Contra Krugman.

Hey, everybody, Tom Woods, Bob Murphy here with another episode of Contra Krugman. A very special episode.

We are here at the extraordinary conference put on by the Austrian Economic Center here in Vienna.

And our surroundings are the unlikeliest of surroundings,

because we are indeed, Bob, where are we right now?

We are at a large table.

Let me situate that table for you.

We are actually at the Central Bank here in Vienna,

which is not a venue I expected to be recording Contra Krugman from, but doggone it,

Bob, we're going places you and I. Yes, I do want to mention just, I should have brought it up

yesterday in my talk. There are actually two Austrian national banks. I don't know if any of you

had that confusion. The taxi driver we took originally yesterday, you know, I had the address at 10 o'clock, and so I was a

nervous one to get here on time.

And the taxi driver took us to a different building, and on my Google Maps, it showed that

there was like a little park and that where we were going had a little park, and he said,

here it is.

And I said, but where's the park?

You know, because there was no park in front of the building. And he said, Austrian National Bank.

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