Ep. 19 Enough About Inequality Already; Here's the Truth

Contra Krugman

Tom Woods

News, Business News

4.7 • 824 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2016

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Krugman wonders how rich "we need" the rich to be. A strange question, but you know the answer: less rich than they are now. We're then treated to a lecture on income inequality. We don't like lectures.

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0:00.0	Contra Krugman, episode 19.
0:05.0	Welcome to the podcast that takes apart Paul Kruikman's New York Times column.
0:09.5	Join us as Tom Woods and Bob Murphy teach economics by uncovering and dissecting the arrows of Krookman.
0:15.5	Nobel Prize winner, newspaper columnist, and destroyer of nations.
0:19.5	It's time for Contra Krukman.
0:23.6	Hey everybody, great news. Your favorite economist, Bob Murphy, has just released his first
0:29.3	economics course over at Liberty Classroom.com. Check it out. You will become invincible.
0:36.2	Invincibility is one of the features of libertyclassroom.com.
0:40.3	Learn the history and economics they didn't teach you and join thousands of liberty lovers at libertyclassroom.com.
0:48.5	Did you know Bob Murphy has his own financial publication? It's the Lara Murphy Report, co-authored with colleague
0:55.9	Carlos Lara. Check it out at contracrugeman.com slash LMR. Welcome everybody to another episode
1:04.1	of Contra Krugman. I'm Tom Woods with Bob Murphy, who before we get started has something of an
1:09.5	announcement for you. So Bob, what is that?
1:11.8	Sure, everybody.
1:12.5	Well, just as a special treat for our Contra Krugman listeners, I'm going to be speaking at the Mesa Circle event.
1:19.9	If you're hearing this in time, it's going to be January 30th, and we're in 2016, of course.
1:24.8	And so for those in the Houston area, it's going to be at the Marriott Hotel that's right
1:29.2	near the Hobby Airport. It's going to be Ron Paul, Lou Rockwell, Jeff Dice, and me addressing
1:34.9	the crowd about the future of the economy and the political scene. So that's going to be again,
1:39.6	January 30th in the Houston area. If I have limited seating available for free tickets for any Contra
1:46.6	Krugman listeners who want to contact me, the quickest way to do it is go to the Contra Krugman
1:51.2	homepage on the left hand side. You'll see Contact Us and Contact Murphy, my cute, very handsome
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