Contra Krugman, Episode 70.

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

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

Nobel Prize winner, newspaper columnist, and Destroyer of Nations.

It's time for Contra Krukman.

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Hey, everybody. Friendly neighborhood economist Bob Murphy here. A lot of people have

been contacted me and saying, Bob, we love Contra Krugman, but can you do another podcast

where you just talk about current events in the financial sector without filtering

it through whatever Paul Kroom happened to say that week? Turns out you're in luck. I do have

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Hope you'll check it out. Hello everybody, Tom and Bob here with another episode of Contra Krugman, and I'm telling you, we are recording this on a very significant day. It's

January 20th, 2017. You probably won't be hearing this for at least a day, given that we're

doing it late in the day, and who knows when we'll be able to get the thing uploaded and stuff, but

it's right around the time,

anyway, of the Donald Trump inauguration, and we're reading the Krugman columns this week and,

you know, trying to find some economics, and the column today is, oh, Trump is surrounding himself

with stupid idiots and incompetence, and so they immediately start with Betsy DeVos, whom I've now learned, by the way,

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