Ep. 5 Who's Crazy?
Contra Krugman
Tom Woods
4.7 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2015
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Paul Krugman says Paul Ryan is an empty suit whose budget plans are ridiculous. No arguments there, as we'll show. But the problem with Ryan isn't that he's an Ayn Randian, as Krugman absurdly suggests, or that his proposals are too draconian. As usual when Krugman gets one right, he gets it right for the wrong reason. Ryan's proposals are much too timid, they take domestic "savings" and pour them into military boondoggles, and don't do a thing about entitlements.
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| 0:00.0 | Contra Krugman, Episode 5. |
| 0:04.9 | Welcome to the podcast that takes apart Paul Krugman's New York Times column. |
| 0:09.5 | Join us as Tom Woods and Bob Murphy teach economics by uncovering and dissecting the arrows of Krookman. |
| 0:15.5 | Nobel Prize winner, newspaper columnist, and Destroyer of Nations. |
| 0:19.5 | It's time for Contra Krugman. |
| 0:23.6 | Welcome everybody to another episode of Contra Krugman. I'm Tom Woods with Bob Murphy. We are talking |
| 0:28.5 | about Paul Krugman's October 12th, 2015 column called The Crazies and the Con Man. Well, it takes one to no one, I suppose. |
| 0:38.7 | Oh, no, no, no. |
| 0:40.0 | Bob, we're above that, right? |
| 0:42.0 | I mean, can you believe I'm already stooping to that? |
| 0:44.4 | How you doing this week, by the way? |
| 0:45.6 | I'm doing great, Tom, and yeah, I really, I thought we agreed. |
| 0:48.2 | We were going to be pretty respectful in this podcast. |
| 0:49.9 | We're going to try and be respectful. Okay, that'll be a switch. |
| 0:55.7 | The crazies and the con man is the name of the column this week. |
| 0:58.8 | Of course, it will be linked at contra krugman.com slash five, the number five for episode |
| 1:05.4 | five. |
| 1:06.2 | If you want to follow along with us, if you want to read this column for some reason, it is |
| 1:09.8 | there for you to |
| 1:11.0 | reference. Who is the con man? Krugman is talking about in this column. The con man, there are so |
| 1:17.1 | many in American life, could be almost anybody. I'm thinking John Maynard Keynes, am I right? Am I warm? |
| 1:22.2 | As a matter of fact, the crazies would be Krugman and all his friends. You know, maybe after enough episodes of Contra Krugman, we will get to see a glorious column like that. |
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