Ep. 1584 The Greta Thunberg Problem

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Government, News

4.8 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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We've heard Greta Thunberg's angry, apocalyptic warnings about the problems arising from climate change. Now economist Paul Krugman says she's closer to the economics than her critics are. What's the right way to think about all this? Sponsor: This election season, trust C-SPAN to give you an unfiltered look at politics and the candidates. Follow Campaign 2020 on the C-SPAN television networks, on the C-SPAN app, or online at .

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0:00.0	The Tom Wood Show, Episode 1584.
0:03.2	Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.
0:07.7	Your daily dose of liberty education starts here.
0:11.2	The Tom Wood Show.
0:14.3	Folks, by far one of the most dangerous economic misconceptions of the 20th century
0:19.6	is that the financial crisis of 2008 was caused by deregulation.
0:24.2	Unregulated capitalism led us here.
0:26.8	It's dangerous because the next time this happens,
0:29.5	they're going to come up with even worse solutions.
0:32.0	So we got to get this one right.
0:33.6	And you can, if you read my free ebook,
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0:42.6	Hey, everybody, Tom Woods here.
0:43.7	I'm going to do something today that I think I've done maybe once or twice
0:47.3	in the over six years of the Tom Wood Show,
0:50.7	almost six and a half now.
0:52.4	And that is I'm going to share with you a particularly good episode, or I don't know,
0:56.2	an episode I liked from what I call my sister podcast, which is Contra Krugeman,
1:01.5	which Bob Murphy and I host a couple of times a month,
1:04.5	over at contrakrugeman.com.
1:06.6	And in particular in this episode, we're talking about a column involving Greta Thunberg,
1:11.2	and Krugeman's claim that she is closer to the economics mainstream than her critics are.
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