Ep. 8 Does the Economy Perform Better Under Democrats?
Contra Krugman
Tom Woods
4.7 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2015
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
This week, Paul Krugman claimed that the economy does better under Democrats, and that the wild growth promises of "free market" Republicans never materialize. Without being water carriers for either party, we set Krugman straight -- after all, that's what we're here for!
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| 0:00.0 | Contra Krugman, episode 8. |
| 0:04.9 | Welcome to the podcast that takes apart Paul Krugman's New York Times column. |
| 0:09.6 | Join us as Tom Woods and Bob Murphy teach economics by uncovering and dissecting the |
| 0:14.3 | arrows of Kruikman. |
| 0:15.5 | Nobel Prize winner, newspaper columnist, and destroyer of nations. |
| 0:19.5 | It's time for Contra Krurukman. A lot of our listeners would |
| 0:24.9 | love to master Austrian economics and learn real history, but they don't have the time, and even if they |
| 0:30.7 | did, how would they know where to start? Well, check out Liberty Classroom.com to learn the history |
| 0:36.2 | and economics we didn't get in school. |
| 0:39.4 | Did you know Bob Murphy has his own financial publication? I bet you didn't. It's the Lara Murphy |
| 0:45.8 | Report, co-authored with colleague Carlos Lara. Check it out at contracrugeman.com slash |
| 0:52.9 | LMR. Welcome everybody to another episode of Contra Krugman. |
| 0:57.3 | I'm Tom Woods with Bob Murphy and joined today by a special guest, our first guest ever on |
| 1:03.0 | Contra Krugman. It's our friend Gene Epstein, who is economics and book review editor at the |
| 1:08.2 | Financial Publication Barron's. I've been glad to welcome him as a guest |
| 1:12.0 | on my own show several times, and we're glad to be able to say that he is our first ever guest. |
| 1:17.7 | So Bob and I will extend a welcome to Gene. Gene, thanks for joining us today. |
| 1:21.9 | What a privilege to be the first and to give you some help on this worthy enterprise. Now, of course, if you're a terrible guest, maybe you'll be the first and to give you some help on this worthy enterprise. |
| 1:28.5 | Now, of course, if you're a terrible guest, maybe you'll be the last guest ever. |
| 1:31.9 | So a lot is hanging in the balance. |
| 1:34.1 | Well, right. |
| 1:34.6 | So I'll have a record in both ways. |
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