Ep. 172 The Government Shutdown: A Big Libertarian Experiment?
Contra Krugman
Tom Woods
4.7 • 822 Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2019
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Krugman points out that even though Republicans have been calling for limited government for as long as anyone can remember, now that the federal government shutdown is upon us they're desperate to get emergency funding for various government functions. In this episode, we discuss this argument, as well as whether the shutdown is really a "big libertarian experiment," as Krugman claims.
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| 0:00.0 | Contra Krugman, episode 172. |
| 0:05.8 | Welcome to the podcast that takes apart Paul Krugeman's New York Times column. |
| 0:10.5 | Join us as Tom Woods and Bob Murphy teach economics by uncovering and dissecting the arrows of Krugman. |
| 0:16.4 | Nobel Prize winner, newspaper columnist, and destroyer of nations. |
| 0:20.5 | It's time for Contra Krugman. |
| 0:24.5 | Hey there, Contra Krugman listeners. |
| 0:26.4 | I've been telling you about the Lara Murphy report that my co-author, |
| 0:30.0 | Carlos Larr and I put out each month. |
| 0:31.7 | It's financial publication. |
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| 0:51.7 | Hey, everybody, Tom and Bob here with another episode of Contra Krugman. |
| 1:00.9 | We are talking about the January 10th, 2019 column called Trump's Big Libertarian Experiment. |
| 1:03.1 | Oh, man, you can already tell where we're going with this. |
| 1:08.1 | And I have to say, Bob, I don't want to mention names, but I've seen a decent amount of libertarian commentary on this column, and I've been really disappointed with |
| 1:13.1 | it. It barely convinced me. I don't think it would convince a critic. So we are going to, |
| 1:18.4 | I hope in this episode, produce something that cuts Krugman down to size, let's say, on this |
| 1:24.8 | particular issue. Because he's claiming, of course, that the shutdown is like a little mini-libertarian experiment. |
| 1:31.0 | And I think we've got to take that on. |
| 1:33.6 | A lot of people are saying, but it's not really. |
| 1:35.9 | Yeah, I know. |
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