Ep. 12 Krugman Wants Less Regulation; Our Podcast Is Wearing Him Down
Contra Krugman
Tom Woods
4.7 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2015
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Krugman correctly identifies one of the reasons housing is so expensive in New York. What else could the explanation be if not the salutary influence of Contra Krugman?
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| 0:00.0 | Contra Krugman, episode 12. |
| 0:04.9 | Welcome to the podcast that takes apart Paul Krugman's New York Times column. |
| 0:09.6 | Join us as Tom Woods and Bob Murphy teach economics by uncovering and dissecting the |
| 0:14.3 | arrows of Krugman. |
| 0:15.5 | Nobel Prize winner, newspaper columnist, and destroyer of nations. |
| 0:19.5 | It's time for Contra Krugman. |
| 0:23.6 | Want to learn Austrian economics and real history systematically and become a |
| 0:29.3 | debate ninja who always comes out on top? Then check out my liberty classroom.com, where you can |
| 0:35.5 | learn the history and economics they didn't teach you. |
| 0:39.4 | Did you know Bob Murphy has his own financial publication? I bet you didn't. It's the Lara |
| 0:45.4 | Murphy Report, co-authored with colleague Carlos Lara. Check it out at contracrugeman.com |
| 0:52.4 | slash LMR. Welcome to another episode of Contra Krugman. I'm Tom Woods |
| 0:57.5 | with Bob Murphy. And what's interesting about the column this week, which is called |
| 1:02.2 | Inequality and the City, November 30, 2015, is that Krugman is acknowledging that in one area, at least, there is too much regulation. |
| 1:13.8 | And the way Bob and I are interpreting that is that here we are only on episode 12, and he's |
| 1:18.3 | already buckling. |
| 1:19.4 | We're already getting to him. |
| 1:21.1 | Now he's already, who could have dreamed that by episode 12, he'd already be saying, you |
| 1:25.5 | know, there's too much regulation. |
| 1:27.0 | So, Bob, I think I can |
| 1:28.8 | tip my hat to you and say, job, well done. I'm thinking by episode 15, he's just going to |
| 1:33.5 | throw on the towel and say that the business cycle is really driven by interest rate manipulation. |
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