Ep. 146 Trump's Fake Victories?
Contra Krugman
Tom Woods
4.7 • 822 Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2018
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
The economy may be doing well, says Krugman, but when you look closer at what Trump touts as his great economic victories, they've been neutral to negative. (Also: winners of the Contra Cruise contest announced!)
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| 0:00.0 | Contra Krugman, episode 146. |
| 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 Krukman. |
| 0:24.6 | Folks, we hear a lot of anxiety these days about people's jobs. They're afraid of automation, |
| 0:28.9 | robots taking their jobs, they're afraid of the pink slip. They're afraid that maybe a tweet |
| 0:33.2 | is going to get them fired. Well, whatever the case may be, in the age of the internet, there's |
| 0:36.8 | no excuse not to be starting on your side hustle that could someday be converted |
| 0:41.6 | into your primary gig. I've got some step-by-step approaches for you in my free e-book over at |
| 0:47.7 | paths to income.com. Hey, everybody, Tom and Bob here with another episode of Contra Krugman. |
| 0:53.5 | We are back, of course, now from New Orleans. |
| 0:56.6 | We spent a couple of days there. |
| 0:58.8 | We, as you know, from last week's episode. |
| 1:01.0 | We were at the Libertarian Party National Convention, sort of, but not really. |
| 1:06.4 | We were not even in the same hotel, but we were at the Mises caucus event that was a wonderful all-day |
| 1:13.3 | event with speakers and music, and we grabbed a few of the speakers for our episode. And then I |
| 1:19.6 | actually did head over to the convention, Bob. I don't know if I told you that. I can't remember. |
| 1:23.1 | I knew you were going, but I didn't. So what happened? Yeah, the next day. Did your convictions |
| 1:27.4 | just kind of bleed away as you walked through the... |
| 1:30.3 | Well, we went to the convention, Michael Bolden of the 10th Amendment Center and I went over there. |
| 1:35.3 | Then also Mike Mahary of the 10th Amendment Center, my daughter, Regina. |
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