Ep. 41 Brexit and Liberty: Krugman Wrong Again
Contra Krugman
Tom Woods
4.7 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2016
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Krugman urges the British to remain in the European Union, and thinks free-market arguments against it are mere fantasy. In fact, British exit from the EU would be a great step forward for freedom, as Bob and Tom show in this week's episode.
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| 0:00.0 | Contra Krugman, episode 41. |
| 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 arrows of Krugman. |
| 0:15.7 | Nobel Prize winner, newspaper columnist, and Destroyer of Nations. |
| 0:19.8 | It's time for Contra Krugman. |
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| 0:42.1 | Hey, everyone. It's your friendly neighborhood economist Bob Murphy here. I just want to invite you, if you haven't already, to peruse sample issues of the Lara Murphy Report, available at contra krugman.com slash LMR.R. That's our monthly financial publication. I think you'll |
| 0:58.7 | enjoy it. Hello, everybody. Tom Woods here with Bob Murphy with another episode of Contra Krugman. |
| 1:04.3 | This one is coming out a little earlier in the week than we normally release them, in part because |
| 1:08.8 | I'm out of town this week, and under the circumstances |
| 1:11.8 | would have been tricky to record the episode remotely. But more importantly, because the |
| 1:17.3 | subject matter we're covering is unusually time-sensitive compared to other topics we cover here |
| 1:23.2 | on the show, because we're talking about the controversy over Brexit, that is the possible exit of |
| 1:30.9 | Britain from the European Union. There's a referendum that's going to take place June 23rd, |
| 1:36.1 | 2016, so just in a matter of days, and we wanted to get this out to you as quickly as possible. |
| 1:42.1 | So the column we're talking about today is the June 17th, |
| 1:45.3 | 2016 column. It's called Fear, Loathing, and Brexit. It, um, I was telling Bob, Bob, you know what, |
| 1:53.5 | Bob's in the room here. So I'll say, Bob, you know, I was telling you before we went on that |
| 1:57.9 | this is actually a slightly tricky column to summarize because he really |
| 2:03.2 | is making a lot of points, and there are a lot of points that require further explanation. |
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