Ep. 25 Krugman Says: You Racist Republicans Paved Way for Trump
Contra Krugman
Tom Woods
4.7 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2016
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Bob and Tom use Krugman's column as a springboard from which to try to come to grips with the Trump phenomenon. Krugman does get a bit of it right this week, as it turns out, but whom are you going to look to on this, Krugman or Bob and Tom?
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| 0:00.0 | Contra Krugman, episode 25. |
| 0:05.2 | Welcome to the podcast that takes apart Paul Krugman's New York Times column. |
| 0:09.9 | Join us as Tom Woods and Bob Murphy teach economics by uncovering and dissecting the |
| 0:14.6 | arrows of Krugman. |
| 0:15.8 | Nobel Prize winner, newspaper columnist, and destroyer of nations. |
| 0:19.8 | It's time for Contra Krugman. |
| 0:23.5 | As you know, Bob Murphy has his own financial publication. |
| 0:27.9 | It's the Lara Murphy Report, co-authored with colleague Carlos Lara. |
| 0:32.8 | Check it out at contra Krugman.com slash LMR. |
| 0:38.0 | Hello, and welcome to another episode of Contra Krugman. I'm Tom Woods with Bob Murphy, and today, |
| 0:43.4 | well, yes, we're talking about the GOP again, but this is going to be it for a while. |
| 0:47.9 | But we do want to talk about this because it is an analysis of the Trump phenomenon, |
| 0:52.8 | and that is on a lot of people's minds, so we thought we'd weigh in on that. |
| 0:56.8 | And then after that, we're going to try to push Krugman beyond his normal boundaries, which seem to be the following four things. |
| 1:04.3 | Climate change, health care, the GOP is stupid, and I don't like Bernie Sanders because I prefer to be in the Hillary Clinton administration. And I think I'll get there by criticizing Bernie Sanders. So those are the four themes that he seems to go after in his column. So we're probably going to dig through his blog posts more because that's where we get into some more technical economics. |
| 1:28.5 | Am I right, Bob? |
| 1:29.0 | Am I right? |
| 1:30.7 | You're always right, Tom. |
| 1:31.8 | Good answer. |
| 1:32.5 | Good answer. |
| 1:41.2 | Today we're doing his column from February 26, 2016, and it's called Twilight of the Apparachics. |
| 1:46.4 | And, of course, you can read it for yourself at contra Krugman.com slash 25. |
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