Ep. 169 You Want the Free Market? You're Unscientific and a Hack
Contra Krugman
Tom Woods
4.7 • 822 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2018
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Why can't Krugman be a plain old economist who speaks in a nonpartisan way? That's what supporters asked after hearing him speak dispassionately about trade on a recent podcast. His answer: people who oppose me on fiscal and monetary policy are partisan cranks with no scientific standing, so they deserve to be smashed. In this episode, we do the smashing.
Show Notes for Ep. 169
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| 0:00.0 | Contra Krugman, episode 169. |
| 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 Krookman. |
| 0:16.2 | Nobel Prize winner, newspaper columnist, and destroyer of nations. |
| 0:20.2 | It's time for Contra Krukman. |
| 0:24.5 | Folks, learn the history and economics they kept from you over at Liberty Classroom.com, my flagship site. |
| 0:31.7 | Learn from me and from other folks you can trust all the stuff they left out. Check it out at libertyclassroom.com and grab yourself a coupon at |
| 0:41.6 | LibertyClassroom.com slash coupons. Hey everybody, Tom and Bob here with another episode of Contra Krugman. |
| 0:48.9 | Today we've reached a new low. Bob, we have reached a new low. There have been times that we have looked at |
| 0:56.0 | Kroogman's column and critiqued it. There have been times we've looked at a Kroogman blog post |
| 1:01.0 | and critiqued it. This time we are reduced to looking at a series of Kroogman tweets |
| 1:09.0 | and critiquing them, but they're about economics, |
| 1:12.5 | and they are critiquable. So doggone it, that is what we're doing. Yeah, we actually had to deal |
| 1:18.2 | with Facebook to get access to Krugman's private messages, but in the wake of recent events, |
| 1:23.4 | we decided that wouldn't look good for the show. So we... Yeah. So instead, this is what we have resorted to. |
| 1:30.9 | So I think I'm not really... |
| 1:33.1 | I mean, I guess I will summarize the tweets. This is so ridiculous. |
| 1:36.9 | Obviously, we'll link to the whole thread at contra krugman.com slash 169. |
| 1:42.4 | Just read like 120 characters, Tom. |
| 1:44.3 | You don't need to do the whole thing. |
| 1:45.5 | Yeah, 140 is what you're, yeah. |
| 1:47.8 | Oh, it's the 120. |
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