Ep. 150 We Need the State to Protect Workers

Contra Krugman

Tom Woods

News, News & Politics, Business News

4.7 • 822 Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

There's been plenty of discussion of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, says Krugman, but it's been focused mainly on his views of presidential power, and not on his opinions on business and workers. On this, too, he's atrocious, says Krugman. We say: Krugman is leaving out 95% of the argument.

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0:00.0	Contra Krugman, episode 150.
0:05.6	Welcome to the podcast that takes apart Paul Kruikman's New York Times column.
0:10.3	Join us as Tom Woods and Bob Murphy teach economics by uncovering and dissecting the arrows of Krukman.
0:16.2	Nobel Prize winner, newspaper columnist, and destroyer of nations.
0:20.3	It's time for Contra Krugman.
0:24.3	Hey there, Contra Krugman listeners.
0:26.1	If you've been on the fence about subscribing to the Lara Murphy Report, the monthly
0:29.4	financial newsletter I put out with Carlos Lara, get off that fence.
0:33.4	The latest issue, I go through the CBO's recent budget report.
0:37.0	You're not going to believe how indebted Uncle Sam is.
0:39.4	Wait to see the details.
0:40.8	Beyond that, we're interviewing Jacob Hubert, who's one of the lawyers involved with the recent Janus Supreme Court decision.
0:46.4	To subscribe, go to contracruigman.com slash LMR.
0:52.5	Hey, everybody, Tom and Bob here with another episode of Contra Krugman.
0:56.1	We got a short column to talk about today.
0:59.6	I don't know if he got paid 50% for this one or what, but it's a short column.
1:04.3	Before we do that, though, I forget, Bob, what the heck were we going to tell people something?
1:09.3	Well, I think everybody, they assume that they know how we pick our columns and they're wrong.
1:15.5	Oh, that's right, about what we decided to do next week instead of this week. That's what it is.
1:19.9	Yes. Okay, there's a column related to Bitcoin and everybody on Twitter seems to be just convinced.
1:25.0	Well, of course, when you get to that column today, make sure you, okay, but we have another column we want to. There's a lot to talk about here. So we will get to that Bitcoin column that everybody's asking about. Today, instead, we're going to be talking about the July 30th, 2018 column, Trump's Supreme Betrayal. It's a mere seven paragraphs. So the summary is pretty much a
1:46.9	breeze, Bob. So let me just jump right into it really quickly here. Krugman here is saying that Trump
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