Ep. 17 The Dramatic Consequences of American Elections, and Yes, We're Being Sarcastic
Contra Krugman
Tom Woods
4.7 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2016
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Krugman reassures progressives that Barack Obama really has had some accomplishments. Think of how radically different America would be under Mitt Romney! Top marginal tax rates might differ by a few percentage points, and Obamacare might have been slightly modified! Oy vey.
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| 0:00.0 | Contra Krugman, episode 17. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome to the podcast that takes apart Paul Krugman's New York Times column. |
| 0:09.6 | Join us as Tom Woods and Bob Murphy teach economics by uncovering and dissecting the |
| 0:14.3 | arrows of Krugman. |
| 0:15.5 | Nobel Prize winner, newspaper columnist, and destroyer of nations. |
| 0:19.5 | It's time for Contra Krugman. |
| 0:23.5 | A lot of our listeners would love to master Austrian economics and learn real history, |
| 0:28.5 | but they don't have the time, and even if they did, how would they know where to start? |
| 0:33.1 | Well, check out LibertyClastroom.com to learn the history and economics we didn't get in school. |
| 0:39.3 | Did you know Bob Murphy has his own financial publication? It's the Lara Murphy Report, |
| 0:45.4 | co-authored with colleague Carlos Lara. Check it out at contra Krugman.com slash LMR. |
| 0:53.4 | Welcome everybody to another episode of Contra Krugman. I'm Tom Woods with Bob Murphy. Bob, I'm here in New York City, just as you were, not too many episodes ago. I do not have a bird in the background. However, I do have the general lobby sound because I'm here with Heather and she's sleeping and I don't want to disturb her |
| 1:11.4 | with an episode of Contra Krugman, so I'm down here in the lobby. I have nowhere else to go. |
| 1:15.8 | I have friends, you know, but I feel weird saying to Dave Smith, can I go over to your house |
| 1:20.3 | and record Contra Krugman so I'm down here in the lobby thinking that I can get away with this? |
| 1:24.5 | Are you kidding me? I mean, he would be able to rent that out, have people to have tours coming through with a little plaque saying, |
| 1:29.9 | you know, this particular episode of ContraCruven was recorded right here. |
| 1:32.7 | You would think, I know. |
| 1:33.9 | It's true, but it's just my humility that's preventing me from doing it. |
| 1:38.7 | Anyway, well, this week's column is called Elections Have Consequences. |
| 1:43.2 | This is the, let's check the date on it what's the |
| 1:45.8 | date i'm going to have it up at contra krugman dot com slash 17 it's the january 4th 2016 column |
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