Contra Krugman, episode 173.

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 Krugman.

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

It's time for Contra Krugman.

Folks, by far one of the most dangerous economic misconceptions of the 20th century is that the financial crisis of 2008 was caused by deregulation.

Unregulated capitalism led us here. It's dangerous because the next time this happens,

they're going to come up with even worse solutions. So we got to get this one right, and you can,

if you read my free e-book, The Deregulation Boogie Man. Pick it up at Regulation Myths.com.

Hey, everybody, it's Tom and Bob.

Back again with another episode of Contra Krugman.

And this time, even though we're recording this in, I guess, the very beginning of the third week of January, all the same.

We are reaching back about a month back into 2018 to pull out a column from Krugman that's just too rich to

leave uncommented on. And it's one of these things where lately Krugman has, he's been on fire.

He's been on a roll with crazy columns. So we've had a surfeit of columns. We really haven't

known what to do with them. So we kept this one in reserve

from so long ago. We haven't been able to get to it. We're finally able to get to it today. And it is

called the case for a mixed economy. The subtitle is maybe not everything should be privatized.

I'm shocked to hear Krugman say that. December 22nd, 2018. So we'll link to that at contra

Kruigman.com slash 173. As usual, so you can check it out for yourself and or follow along with us.

All right, Bob, I am ready to go now my second week in a row back doing the summary. If you have

anything to say before I do that, we'd be delighted to hear it.

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