Contra Krugman, episode 111.

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

Join us as Tom Woods and Bob Murphy teach economics by uncovering and dissecting the

arrows of Krukman.

Nobel Prize winner, newspaper columnist, and destroyer of nations.

It's time for Contra Krugman.

Hello, everybody, Tom and Bob here with another episode of Contra Krugman. We've got a

potentially wonkish column that we're talking about here, potentially in the sense that

Bob's commentary on it may get wonkish. So my role in these episodes is to draw him back from the brink to help the rest of us

so that we don't get caught up in crazy Bob economist Wonko land.

And that's what I'm going to be doing.

Other than that, I'll clean the kitchen and listen to Bob.

But the column is Trump's $700 billion gift to wealthy foreigners. It is the October 26th, 2017 column linked at contra Krugman.com slash 111.

Bob, before I summarize the column, is there anything you want to jump in with?

I think you're a nice guy.

See, I'm glad I asked.

All right, here we go.

Just in case there was anything you wanted to set the stage with or whatever, I thought I felt like I monopolized the introduction there, so just wanted to give you a shot.

But you always monopolized the introduction, so I was confused. All right.

Yeah, and I always have some awkward way of trying to bring you in, and it so far hasn't

quite worked all the way up to episode 111. All right, here we go. The column begins with,

why is Donald Trump planning to give away $700 billion to foreigners, no strings attached?

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