Ep. 126 Deficit Hawks Are Hypocrites (Says Krugman, Who Is 100% Not a Hypocrite)

Contra Krugman

Tom Woods

News, News & Politics, Business News

4.7 • 822 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Krugman can't believe Republicans who worried about deficits under Obama -- when, according to Keynesianism, we needed deficits to help the struggling economy -- have no problem with them today, at a time when Keynesianism would consider them unnecessary.

Yes, there are plenty of Republican hypocrites, whom we do not spare in this episode. But Krugman and his friends might want to be more careful when accusing other people of hypocrisy....

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0:00.0	Contra Krugman, episode 126.
0:05.7	Welcome to the podcast that takes apart Paul Kruikman's New York Times column.
0:10.5	Join us as Tom Woods and Bob Murphy teach economics by uncovering and dissecting the arrows of Krugman.
0:16.4	Nobel Prize winner, newspaper columnist, and destroyer of nations.
0:20.4	It's time for Contra Krugman.
0:24.6	Folks, if you thought Bernie Sanders and his ideas would just go away, boy, have you been proven
0:29.4	wrong?
0:30.3	Best way to fight back?
0:31.9	Grab my free e-book, Bernie Sanders is Wrong, over at bernie-is-wrong.com. Hey, everybody. Tom and Bob here, another episode of Conternie is wrong.com.
0:38.2	Hey, everybody. Tom and Bob here, another episode of Contra Krugman.
0:41.3	Bob, we may have something to tell people about in the relatively near future,
0:46.0	but I'm not sure I should say precisely what it is.
0:49.7	Hmm.
0:51.1	I'm sort of non-plus, Tom.
0:52.9	Yeah, what could this be?
0:54.7	It would be almost what you might call an announcement of some kind.
1:01.9	Yeah, yeah.
1:04.0	All right, we got a column to talk about here.
1:05.8	Is it the 10,000th episode of the Tom Wood Show?
1:08.0	Yeah, that's right.
1:08.9	It happened a lot sooner than you thought.
1:11.7	No, no, no.
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