Contra Krugman, episode 118.

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 Kruikman.

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

It's time for Contra Krukman.

Hey, everybody. Bob Murphy here.

Unfortunately, as a series, no, Tom can't be with us today.

He's got to take care of something serious.

He's okay, but he can't be with us.

So I am going to be in charge of the ship, as it were, a little bit nervous.

You know, it's one thing to be the wise guy cracking jokes on the side while Tom's in charge

at the helm steering us through the choppy waters of Krugman's miscommunication and misdirection.

But now I'm the one in the captain's seat.

It's a little bit intimidating.

What we're going to do, folks, this was an idea sent to me by Roger Barris.

He said about a week ago, he said, you know what?

I don't know if you've seen this, but on Vox, Ezra Klein has an interview with Paul Kruben. There's lots of juicy stuff. And he was right. So instead of looking at a column or a blog post today, we're going to go through some of the juiciest parts of this Ezra Klein column. As always, let me say it officially before I forget. If you want to see the link to this interview or

any of the other things I might bring up along the way you're going to go to contra krugman.com

slash 118 now because this is actually a pretty long interview I'm not going to first summarize

it and then circle back and make points what I'll do is let me just read the introduction here that as recline gives for the whole interview and then circle back and make points. What I'll do is let me just read the

introduction here that Ezra Klein gives for the whole interview and then I will read parts of it

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