Ep. 77 It's Easy to Criticize, But How Good Are Self-Proclaimed Free Market People at Devising Alternatives?
Contra Krugman
Tom Woods
4.7 • 822 Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2017
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Republicans are now figuring out that really, the Democrats have been right all along, which is why it's so hard to devise a true alternative to Obamacare. That's Krugman's argument in this column. They're also flubbing the way they're corporate tax reform. This isn't because their leader, Donald Trump, is a bozo, but because they themselves are shysters who are good at sloganeering but bad at governing.
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| 0:00.0 | Contra Krugman, episode 77. |
| 0:05.3 | Welcome to the podcast that takes apart Paul Kruikman's New York Times column. |
| 0:10.0 | Join us as Tom Woods and Bob Murphy teach economics by uncovering and dissecting the arrows of Krukman. |
| 0:15.9 | Nobel Prize winner, newspaper columnist, and Destroyer of Nations. |
| 0:19.9 | It's time for Contra Krugman. |
| 0:24.0 | Folks, if you like this show, I guarantee you will enjoy my brand new free e-book, |
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| 0:41.4 | we don't have the time to get into the full nuances of some of these issues about international |
| 0:45.6 | trade and taxation. If you want to get the full scoop, go to lauramerfey.com. That's |
| 0:49.9 | L-A-R-A-Hifen Murphy.com. Hey, everybody. Tom and Bob here with another episode of Contra Krugman, episode 77. |
| 0:57.6 | Now, we're not exactly right around the corner from episode 100 because this is a weekly |
| 1:01.7 | podcast, but we've got to do something special. I'm coming up on episode 1,000, and I'm thinking |
| 1:07.2 | I've got to do something really special. So, Bob, we'll have to brainstorm about |
| 1:11.5 | what can we do for episode 100, which, by the way, will be before the cruise. So if you were thinking |
| 1:16.3 | of segueing into there, that one's not going to work. Hmm, all right. So a thousand, some of our |
| 1:21.6 | listeners might even know what you're talking about. You actually have some other podcast you do? |
| 1:25.1 | Yeah, I really keep it under wraps, but it's called the Tom |
| 1:28.1 | Wood Show at Tom Woods.com. And I just recorded episode 867 today. So we are, we are getting there. |
| 1:35.2 | Who are the marketing wizards that came up with that title? Yeah. Yeah. Actually, it wasn't such a bad |
| 1:40.0 | title because the idea was people who knew my stuff might follow the show, you jerk. |
| 1:45.0 | Anyway, it wasn't as highbrow as contra Krugman. It was. title because the idea was people who knew my stuff might follow the show, you jerk. Anyway. |
| 1:45.8 | It wasn't as highbrow as contra Krugman. |
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