Ep. 170 Are Conservatives Hypocrites on Fed Policy?
Contra Krugman
Tom Woods
4.7 • 822 Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2019
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Krugman can't believe that the same people warning about expansionary monetary policy under Barack Obama are suddenly concerned about contractionary monetary policy under Donald Trump. You already know part of the answer: Krugman is as inconsistent as the folks he criticize are. But we have much more for you, particularly: what's so bad about the Federal Reserve's intervention into the economy?
Show Notes for Ep. 170
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| 0:00.0 | Contra Krugman, episode 170. |
| 0:05.5 | 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 Krukman. |
| 0:16.2 | Nobel Prize winner, newspaper columnist, and Destroyer of Nations. |
| 0:20.3 | It's time for Contra Krugman. |
| 0:24.4 | Hey there, Contra Krugman listeners. Bob Murphy here. I just wanted to make you aware that over on my |
| 0:29.6 | own podcast, the Bob Murphy Show in late January of 2019, I'm going to be devoting an episode to an |
| 0:35.3 | analysis of my children's book called The Three Lads and the Lizard King. |
| 0:40.7 | Now, you may be aware that I have written such a book. |
| 0:42.9 | I wrote it for my son and think, well, I don't need to read a kid's book. |
| 0:45.8 | What's that for? |
| 0:46.7 | Trust me, especially if you're a Christian, I really think you would appreciate the story, even if you don't have any kids. |
| 0:53.0 | For more details and also go ahead and read some of the customer reviews. |
| 0:57.0 | They're all five-star, by the way. |
| 0:58.3 | Just read some of the reviews, and you'll see people saying things like, wow, I wasn't |
| 1:02.5 | expecting to like this as much as I did. |
| 1:04.2 | And Bob really did a good job here. |
| 1:05.5 | And it's much more than just a free market economist. |
| 1:08.0 | Go ahead and read the reviews. |
| 1:09.4 | And then I dare you to not buy the book. |
| 1:17.5 | Go ahead. For all these details, go to Bob Murphy's show.com slash lizard because you want to read the book ahead of time before my podcast episode where I explain all the themes and what's going on in |
| 1:22.8 | this story that's packaged very innocently just as a little kid's story, but it's very deep. |
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