Ep. 134 Liberals Are Honest, Aren't Bootlickers, and Admit Their Mistakes, Unlike Krugman's Stupid and Evil Enemies

Contra Krugman

Tom Woods

News, News & Politics, Business News

4.7 • 822 Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In this column Krugman suggests that the decline in the moral and scholarly rigor of conservative intellectuals has to do with the intellectual bankruptcy of the Republican Party, which has no interest in science or truth. So to get ahead or even to be heard, intellectuals have to say ridiculous things that the Party wants to hear.

Left-liberals, by contrast, are overwhelmingly committed to the dispassionate examination of evidence, are not sycophantic toward those in power, and readily admit their mistakes.

Sure.

And don't worry: there's real economics in here, too, as we discuss Krugman's claims about the predictive power of Keynesianism and the supposedly poor track record of its opponents.

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0:00.0	Contra Krugman, episode 134.
0:05.8	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.
0:20.5	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 wrong?
0:30.2	Best way to fight back?
0:31.9	Grab my free e-book, Bernie Sanders is Wrong, over aternie is wrong.com.
0:38.1	Hey there, Contra Krugman listeners.
0:40.1	If you're in the Chicago area, then I just want to let you know that on Saturday, May 19th, 2018,
0:47.1	Carlos Lara, David Stearns, and myself, we will be giving a seminar on IBC for the general public.
0:53.3	For more details, go to IBCc seminar dot com hope to see you there
0:58.6	hey everybody tom and bob here with another episode of contra khrugman oh it's a juicy one this
1:04.0	week folks juicy juicy cruigman is in a really nasty mood this week is this the one where he
1:10.6	says all of his opponents are actually pretty nice guys?
1:14.2	Yeah, we're still waiting for that one.
1:16.8	They're actually pretty nice guys.
1:18.2	We missed the April 1st one, sorry.
1:20.0	Yeah, exactly, yeah.
1:21.1	No, this is the, really nobody is even worthy to be considered an opponent because they're all
1:26.6	such moral and intellectual pygmies.
1:28.7	They don't even rise to that level.
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