Contra Krugman, episode four.

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

Join us as Tom Woods and Bob Murphy teach economics by uncovering and dissecting the arrows of Krugman.

Nobel Prize winner, newspaper columnist, and destroyer of nations.

It's time for Contra Krugman.

Welcome to Contra Krugman once again, episode number four. Now we are caught up, more or less.

We're doing the most recent column. And of course, I'm Tom Woods, joined by Bob Murphy.

Bob, this is your week to shine, my friend, because it is energy policy, which you have

specialized in for a long time.

I mean, you can talk about anything and everything, but this is like Krugman is handing

us stuff on a silver platter here.

Yeah, it's either that he's being nice to us that he knows we started the show and thought,

oh, let me just be generous to these guys, or he just really doesn't know what he's walking

into.

Well, let's not speculate on precisely what he's walking into.

A buzzsaw, manure, I don't quite know, but we're talking today about his column from

October 5, 2015, Enemies of the Sun.

I never imagined myself as really being an enemy of the sun. I always thought of the sun as

being more or less benign, but the column is called Enemies of the Sun. We're linking to it,

as we always do, at contra-crugeman.com slash 4, where we will have this column, so you can follow along or read it afterward, whatever you like, but we will also have columns that respond to various aspects of Krugman's case here. We'll be referring to some of those as we go along. We'll also have graphics and charts and so on and so forth to show you

graphically what it is that we're saying, to back up what we're saying. So there's going to be

plenty of material there as always. So what I'm going to do is just run through the column super

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