Ep. 125 Is the Stock Market Telling Us Something?
Contra Krugman
Tom Woods
4.7 • 822 Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2018
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Krugman insists that "the stock market is not the economy," and that downturns in the stock market need not portend bad economic times. But he takes the opportunity of stock market volatility to evaluate the present condition of the economy and its prospects for growth.
We respond.
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| 0:00.0 | Contra Krugman, episode 125. |
| 0:05.9 | Welcome to the podcast that takes apart Paul Kruikman's New York Times column. |
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| 1:13.2 | Hi, everybody, Tom and Bob here with another episode of Contra Krugman. Today we're talking about |
| 1:17.7 | the stock market because, of course, as you know, there's been a lot of volatility there. |
| 1:21.9 | And of course, Krugman is going to have some commentary on that. After all, the stock market will |
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| 1:30.1 | So, yeah. Anyway, he has a lot of experience when it comes to making predictions and doing |
| 1:37.2 | analysis of the stock market. So, Bob, I am going to start in on my summary of this column called |
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