Ep. 37 Our Most Brutal Takedown Yet: Krugman on the Clinton Economy
Contra Krugman
Tom Woods
4.7 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2016
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
In this column, Krugman takes things to a whole new level. He tries to draw lessons from the Clinton boom in the 1990s, which he incorrectly says was better than the Reagan boom, even though he himself admits there are no applicable lessons from that boom. It's awful, and we beat him to an intellectual pulp.
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| 0:00.0 | Contra Krugman, episode 37. |
| 0:05.1 | Welcome to the podcast that takes apart Paul Kruikman's New York Times column. |
| 0:09.7 | Join us as Tom Woods and Bob Murphy teach economics by uncovering and dissecting the |
| 0:14.4 | arrows of Kruikman. |
| 0:15.6 | Nobel Prize winner, newspaper columnist, and Destroyer of Nations. |
| 0:19.6 | It's time for Contra Krugman. |
| 0:23.7 | Hello everybody. Welcome to another episode of Contra Krugman. I'm Tom Woods with Bob Murphy, |
| 0:27.7 | along with special guest Gene Epstein of Barron's. We'll talk to Gene in just a minute. I want |
| 0:33.5 | to start off with an apology. It's not Bob's fault. It's my fault that we're late with this |
| 0:38.4 | episode of Contra Krugman. There was just no other way of doing it. I was out of town for the |
| 0:42.9 | Libertarian Party Convention, and I just, for my mental health sake, there was just no way |
| 0:48.0 | to make it work before today, but we'll be back on our regular schedule. So you'll have |
| 0:51.9 | another episode of Contra Krugman coming up very, very soon after this one. |
| 0:55.4 | But this is the best we could do. |
| 0:57.2 | Gene is the economics and book review editor over at Barron's, which you can visit at, what's the website of Barron's? |
| 1:03.2 | Gene. |
| 1:03.3 | Is it Barron's.com? |
| 1:05.5 | www.barrons.com. |
| 1:08.6 | And I've got a pretty active Facebook these days also, so tramy on Facebook, |
| 1:13.1 | and it's open to everyone. Okay. And Gene Epstein is G-E-N-E. The Epstein is easy. |
| 1:18.6 | Right. Indeed. Indeed. Okay. Well, today's column is, you know, it's not super duper old at this point. |
| 1:25.1 | We've done older columns. It's the May 23rd, 2016 Krugman column, |
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