Ep. 149 How to Unwind the Welfare State
Contra Krugman
Tom Woods
4.7 • 822 Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2018
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Krugman is on vacation this week, so we take a topic suggestion from someone who's joining us on this year's Contra Cruise: how to unwind the welfare state peacefully as the fiscal crisis becomes impossible to evade.
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| 0:00.0 | Contra Krugman, episode 149. |
| 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. |
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| 0:46.2 | Hey everybody, Tom and Bob here with another episode of Contra Krugman, no live audience this week. |
| 0:50.0 | Man, we were spoiled by that tremendous audience and our wonderful special guests on stage, |
| 0:56.2 | but that's okay. It's not so bad being stuck here with just Bob. |
| 1:00.4 | Yeah, we have to just make the best of it, you know? |
| 1:03.8 | Well, one way we're going to do that today is by, I guess, for the second week in a row, Bob, |
| 1:09.7 | ignoring Krugman altogether. |
| 1:11.6 | Well, in fairness to us, he is literally on vacation, so he hasn't written anything. |
| 1:16.0 | So it's not merely that we're being too picky or something. |
| 1:19.3 | Okay, yeah, he's on vacation, but we're still working. |
| 1:22.3 | So how about that? |
| 1:23.9 | What we're going to do, though, is take a recommended topic because one of the goodies we gave to some early bird folks on the Contra Cruise was that you could recommend a topic for the two of us to cover on the show. |
| 1:37.7 | So we're going to draw one of those topics today. |
| 1:40.6 | If we might just mention, I mean, good things happen to you when you sign up for the |
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