Ep. 42 Without Government, Workers Are Doomed
Contra Krugman
Tom Woods
4.7 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2016
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
This week, Krugman is unhappy that Donald Trump has earned a reputation as a defender of workers. How can he be, wonders Krugman, if he doesn't support Obamacare, more privileges for labor unions, higher taxes on the rich, and so on?
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| 0:00.0 | Contra Krugman, episode 42. |
| 0:05.3 | Welcome to the podcast that takes apart Paul Krugman's New York Times column. |
| 0:10.0 | Join us as Tom Woods and Bob Murphy teach economics by uncovering and dissecting the |
| 0:14.7 | arrows of Krugman. |
| 0:15.9 | Nobel Prize winner, newspaper columnist, and Destroyer of Nations. |
| 0:20.0 | It's time for Contra Krugman. |
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| 0:42.7 | Hey, everyone. It's your friendly neighborhood economist Bob Murphy here. I just want to invite you, |
| 0:47.1 | if you haven't already, to peruse sample issues of the Lara Murphy Report, available at |
| 0:52.1 | contra krugman.com slash LMR.m.R. That's our monthly financial |
| 0:57.9 | publication. I think you'll enjoy it. Hello, everybody. Tom Woods here with Bob Murphy and another |
| 1:02.4 | episode of Contra Krugman. You may think the episode is late. Actually, it's a little bit early |
| 1:06.6 | this week because actually we skipped a week. We skipped last week because Krugman took the week off |
| 1:12.3 | and we decided, what the heck, we're going to take a week off because I actually am in the |
| 1:17.6 | middle of moving across the country and with five children. So it's a bit of an ordeal and I |
| 1:24.4 | certainly could use the help, the extra time. |
| 1:28.0 | And it's interesting, it's another case of Krugman bailing us out. |
| 1:31.4 | Bob writes a book on health policy. |
| 1:33.9 | Krugman writes a column that week on health. |
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