Ep. 30 Obama's Been a Great President? Not So Fast
Contra Krugman
Tom Woods
4.7 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2016
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Krugman argues that blinkered conservatives and cynical progressives alike have failed to appreciate the successes of the Obama presidency. He concentrates on four areas: the economy, health care, financial reform, and climate change. We concentrate on those areas, too -- and come up with rather different conclusions. Dan Mitchell, Senior Fellow of the Cato Institute, joins us as a special guest this week.
Show notes for Ep. 30
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| 0:00.0 | Contra Krugman, episode 30. |
| 0:04.8 | Welcome to the podcast that takes apart Paul Kruigman'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. |
| 0:15.4 | Nobel Prize winner, newspaper columnist, and Destroyer of Nations. |
| 0:19.5 | It's time for Contra Krukman. |
| 0:23.5 | Remember what your teachers taught you about the U.S. presidents? It was all a load of government |
| 0:28.3 | propaganda. Learn the real history of the U.S. presidents, including what your teachers left out, |
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| 0:38.9 | Hello, everyone. It's your friendly neighborhood economist Bob Murphy here. I just want to |
| 0:42.8 | invite you, if you haven't already done so, to peruse the copies of the Lara Murphy report |
| 0:47.8 | at Contra Krugman slash LMR and consider subscribing to our financial publication. |
| 0:56.4 | Welcome to another episode of Contra Krugman. |
| 1:01.0 | I'm Tom Woods with Bob Murphy. And this week we're joined by special guest Dan Mitchell, |
| 1:06.0 | senior fellow at the Cato Institute. Dan, we're grateful to have you and we're so glad that you're able to share your expertise with us today. Right. I'm glad to join the fun. |
| 1:15.7 | And not to mention, Bob and I, frankly, are getting kind of tired of each other, so it helps to shake things up a bit for us. Today's, the column that we're going to be talking about today |
| 1:20.1 | is, let's go up, it is Learning from Obama. Oh, you know, this one's going to be fun. |
| 1:26.4 | It's the April, appropriately enough, it's the April 1st, 2016 column. As always, we're linking to the column |
| 1:33.4 | on the show notes page, so you can follow along if you like, at contra Krugman.com slash 30. |
| 1:39.5 | I'll do what we normally do. I'll summarize the column. He, uh, Krugman is basically spending this column saying to |
| 1:46.0 | people on the right, look, you've got to face facts. The guy you have been trying to blame for |
| 1:51.8 | every problem in the world is actually a pretty good problem solver. And he's likewise saying to people |
| 1:57.1 | on the progressive left, you're being too hard on the guy and you're living in |
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