Ep. 81 Trump the President and Trump the Candidate Seem Rather Different
Contra Krugman
Tom Woods
4.7 • 822 Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2017
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Krugman wonders what became of Trump's bluster about trade -- so far, the proposed changes to trade policy are minor. Bob and Tom discuss President Trump as compared to candidate Trump.
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| 0:00.0 | Contra Krugman, episode 81. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome to the podcast that takes apart Paul Kruigman's New York Times column. |
| 0:09.7 | Join us as Tom Woods and Bob Murphy teach economics by uncovering and dissecting the |
| 0:14.4 | arrows of Krugman. |
| 0:15.6 | Nobel Prize winner, newspaper columnist, and destroyer of nations. |
| 0:19.6 | It's time for Contra Krukman. |
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| 0:39.9 | Hey everybody, Bob Murphy here. |
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| 1:03.2 | U.T.U.D.U. Hey, everybody, Tom and Bob here with another episode of Contra Krugman. |
| 1:09.7 | We're talking about trade today. It has nothing |
| 1:12.2 | to do with Obamacare. We have more or less for sworn to discuss that topic for, I don't know if we |
| 1:18.3 | can necessarily say the rest of 2017, but doggone it, I sure am shooting for that goal. That's a |
| 1:24.2 | reasonable goal, right? A worthy goal. We've covered enough of that, right? Yeah, I mean, I suppose if they repealed it, we might say a word or two. We'll say a word or two if |
| 1:31.5 | they repealed it, absolutely. But today, instead, we're talking about trade. And in particular, |
| 1:36.2 | we're talking about Krugman's April 3, 2017 column. Trump is wimping out on trade. We have it linked at contra krugman.com slash 81. |
| 1:47.1 | So I'll do what I always do. |
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