Ep. 154 The Economic Freedom of the States Proves Our Point, Not Krugman's

Contra Krugman

Tom Woods

News, News & Politics, Business News

4.7 • 822 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2018

⏱️ 43 minutes

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The Cato Institute recently issued a ranking of economic freedom in the 50 U.S. states. Krugman thinks they're defining freedom too narrowly, for surely workers in New York, where they have many protections, feel freer than workers elsewhere. He further suggests a positive correlation between economic freedom and infant mortality. These and other Krugman claims are ground into sausage.

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0:00.0	Contra Krugman, episode 154.
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.
0:24.7	Hey, Contra Krugman listeners.
0:27.1	Carlos Lara, David Stearns, and I are going to be putting on another IBC seminar for the general public.
0:33.4	This time it's going to be in Fort Worth, Texas on Saturday, October 13th, 2018.
0:38.9	So again, this is something where we start from scratch.
0:41.6	You don't need to have any background knowledge.
0:43.5	We'll give you a crash course in Austrian economics and the state of the economy.
0:47.0	And then how you can use IBC in your household or business.
0:50.7	For more details, go to IBC Seminar.com.
0:55.1	Hey, everybody, Tom and Bob here with another episode of Contra Crew, and we've got a great
0:58.3	fun announcement for you part way through.
1:01.0	And it's not about the Contra Cruise, although we will be reminding you about that,
1:05.2	because it may have slipped your mind that you want to go on the most enjoyable week of your
1:09.4	life.
1:09.9	Yeah, when I think of fun in announcements, this Contra Cruz kind of pops to mind.
1:13.8	I know, but I want people to understand it's yet another thing that they're going to enjoy hearing about.
1:20.3	But today's column prompted Bob to write an 11-page response.
1:26.6	Is it a manifesto?
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