Ep. 212 Trump, Crony Capitalism, and Impeachment
Contra Krugman
Tom Woods
4.7 • 822 Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
We discuss the impeachment, Krugman's selective praise for whistleblowers, and what the correct approach to the problem of "crony capitalism" should be.
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| 0:00.0 | Contra Krugman, episode 212. |
| 0:05.4 | Welcome to the podcast that takes apart Paul Kruikman'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 Krukman. |
| 0:16.0 | Nobel Prize winner, newspaper columnist, and destroyer of nations. |
| 0:20.1 | It's time for Contra Krugman. |
| 0:24.2 | Hey folks, Bob Murphy here. Still agonizing over those last-minute Christmas gifts? May I suggest |
| 0:29.6 | getting that special someone, Contra Krugman, the book? If it's somebody who's into Austrian economics, |
| 0:34.9 | they're going to love it. If it's somebody new who |
| 0:37.5 | maybe just needs an introduction, again, it's an excellent book for this purpose. It's got lots of |
| 0:42.8 | different topics broken down by topic, and each chapter is very short and digestible. What more |
| 0:48.5 | could you ask for? They want to learn about the minimum wage? Yeah, it's got it. Climate change, got it. Federal Reserve, got it. |
| 0:56.5 | Contra Krugman book.com. |
| 0:58.0 | Hey, everybody. |
| 1:00.5 | Tom and Bob here with another episode of Contra Krugman. |
| 1:02.6 | We are talking about Trump. |
| 1:03.2 | I mean, what else? |
| 1:05.0 | What the heck else been to be talking about? |
| 1:06.1 | You know, I feel kind of funny. |
| 1:11.2 | I mean, it's kind of a letdown. First, we were in Central Bank in Vienna recording and now back here. |
| 1:17.1 | In stupid reality? Yes. Yeah, exactly. That's one of my favorite Homer Simpson lines. |
| 1:22.6 | Something about being back to stupid reality again. You know, because I guess he had been off somewhere. |
| 1:29.7 | Or actually, I wonder if it was the episode where, well, it doesn't matter. This doesn't make't matter. This is nothing to do with anything. |
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