Contra Krugman, episode 162.

Welcome to the podcast that takes apart Paul Kruikman's New York Times column.

Join us as Tom Woods and Bob Murphy teach economics by uncovering and dissecting the arrows of Krukman.

Nobel Prize winner, newspaper columnist, and destroyer of nations.

It's time for Contra Krugman.

Welcome everybody to another episode of Contra Krugman.

Tom and Bob here, on board the Contra Cruise with the Crem de la Crem, the best people in the world, our fellow Contra Cruisers.

Thank you. our fellow Contra Cruisers.

Now, we thought today we would make clear that we are in charge of the Contra Krugman podcast.

Not Krugman, Bob and I are in charge.

We will decide what the topics will be. And you know that from time to time, we look at the column that he's written and we say, this just, this is not doing anything for anybody.

Yeah, I suspect that he knew the cruise was coming up and tried to sabotage us by writing the most boring columns you've ever seen. Cruz, he wrote a column. It was like he sampled all the errors of his entire career. So we had to

know that was unsustainable, right? That was a Fed-fueled boom of some sort. So instead, what we've

decided to do today in the spirit of the Freedom Feud game that we played the other day,

where one of the questions was, what is the biggest difficulty that people have accepting libertarianism?

And there's some, you know, we talked about the roads and a bunch of other related issues.

So Bob and I thought, well, in the spirit of that, let's respond to some of those common objections as our episode of Contra Krugman.

So that is what we've decided to do.

That's our episode for today.

So Bob, how about you pick one and we've decided to do. That's our episode for today. So Bob,

how about you pick one and we'll dive into it? We picked about a half a dozen different ones.

Why don't we start with the Rhodes, the obvious one, all right? And this is not a straw man in the sense. So those in the libertarian community know that this has turned into a meme. It's a joke.

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