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Contra Krugman

Ep. 32 Why Antitrust Is the Problem, Not the Solution

Contra Krugman

Tom Woods

News, Business News

4.7824 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2016

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Krugman is now blaming poor economic times (but hasn't he been trying to tell us things are much better than the stupid right-wingers say?) on a lack of competition. Lax antitrust enforcement is the problem! Sure it is. In fact, antitrust itself is the problem, as we show in this week's episode.

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0:00.0

Contra Krugman, episode 32.

0:05.2

Welcome to the podcast that takes apart Paul Kruikman's New York Times column.

0:09.8

Join us as Tom Woods and Bob Murphy teach economics by uncovering and dissecting the

0:14.5

arrows of Krugman.

0:15.7

Nobel Prize winner, newspaper columnist, and Destroyer of Nations.

0:19.8

It's time for Contra Krugman.

0:23.9

Folks, if you enjoy this show, you're really going to like the free course I've made available

0:27.7

to you on the real history of the U.S. presidents. Very, very helpful, especially during an election

0:34.2

year. Check it out at freehistory course.com.

0:38.1

Hey, everyone. It's your friendly neighborhood economist Bob Murphy here. I just want to invite you,

0:42.5

if you haven't already, to peruse sample issues of the Lara Murphy Report, available at

0:47.6

contracrugeman.com slash LMR. That's our monthly financial publication. I think you'll enjoy it.

0:55.4

Welcome to another episode of Contra Krugman. I'm Tom Woods with Bob Murphy. We are talking

1:00.7

this week about antitrust, so Krugman is expanding. He's talking about new things that we

1:07.3

have not yet covered here on the podcast. So this will be a lot of fun. Before we get

1:12.2

into the immediate fun, let's talk about some fun in maybe the medium term. And by that,

1:19.2

I'm of course not talking about the cruise. The cruise is in the slightly longer term,

1:24.5

although you're going to want to sign up for it in the nearer term.

1:27.7

We'll get to that later. I'm talking in particular about the Mises Institute event in Seattle coming up May 21st, and Lou

1:35.3

Rockwell will be speaking there, Jeff Diced, Walter Block, and then Bob and I will be recording a live

1:41.5

episode, the first ever live episode of Contra Krugman before an audience, and it's

1:47.3

going to be a ton of fun. There's a brunch, there's mingling with everybody, including the

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