Ep. 155 What Would Happen If One Country Became Free, and the Rest Had States?

Contra Krugman

Tom Woods

News, News & Politics, Business News

4.7 • 822 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

We take a listener question -- early-bird registrants for the Contra Cruise got this as a bonus -- about what would happen if one country went completely stateless, but the rest of the world stayed the same. Lots of potential consequences here, and we do our best to sort them out! Plus the usual fun.

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0:00.0	Contra Krugman, episode 155.
0:05.4	Welcome to the podcast that takes apart Paul Krugman's New York Times column.
0:10.1	Join us as Tom Woods and Bob Murphy teach economics by uncovering and dissecting the
0:14.8	arrows of Krukman.
0:16.0	Nobel Prize winner, newspaper columnist, and Destroyer of Nations.
0:20.0	It's time for Contra Krukman. Hey, everybody,ist and destroyer of nations. It's time for Contra Krukman.
0:23.9	Hey, everybody, Tom and Bob here with the other episode of Contra Krookman.
0:27.1	Oh, man, I'm laughing and I'm also ready to commit an atrocity.
0:31.9	Because Bob and I just recorded for almost 15 minutes, and I, I'd forgotten to press record on my end.
0:39.1	And it's terrible because you can't make up.
0:42.4	You can't redo the spontaneous banter and have it be spontaneous.
0:47.6	I can't.
0:48.1	Yeah, I had at least two funny lines and I'm kind of upset.
0:50.9	I know.
0:51.5	I know.
0:51.8	And Bob was, I mean, because he's, Bob's such a nice guy.
0:54.3	He never gets angry with anybody.
0:55.5	But I could tell from his, no, it's okay.
0:57.5	No, it's fine.
0:58.2	Yeah, we can, no, we'll just redo it.
0:59.6	I mean, you want to start all over again from zero?
1:01.8	Yeah, I mean, that's, that's all right.
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