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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 815 Are We Like Rome?

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2016

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Does the American system bear any resemblances to Rome during its imperial period? Paul Krugman, who has cheered virtually every step toward empire (we're not talking foreign policy here; we mean empire as in a system dominated by a single man or a single centralized government), has the gall to be concerned all of a sudden. This is episode 66 of my sister podcast, Contra Krugman.

Show notes for Ep. 815

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 815.

0:03.1

Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.

0:07.9

Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show.

0:14.4

Hey everybody, Tom Woods here.

0:16.0

I want to make sure that people who listen to my show have an opportunity to hear my sister podcast,

0:23.9

Contra Krugman, that I do with Bob Murphy every week. We refute Paul Krugman's New York Times column

0:29.7

over at contra Krugman.com. We have a whole lot of fun doing it. And one time in the distant past,

0:34.8

I ran an episode of Contra Krugman as an episode of this show as a bonus episode.

0:40.2

Well, today, now don't yell at me. Today I'm going to run an episode of Contra Krugman as a regular episode of this show.

0:47.9

And I'm doing that, partly because I'm out of town this week. And yeah, I probably should do this as a bonus episode. But this week, as far as I'm

0:54.9

concerned, these are all bonus episodes. Because if you've listened to the show for a long time,

0:58.0

you know, I normally take this whole week off. I take about a week and a half off at Christmas

1:02.0

time. And this year, I'm not doing that at all. So the fact that you've got the other four

1:06.3

episodes is the real miracle. So, yeah, okay, if you've already heard this episode of Contra Krugman,

1:11.7

well, it's a pretty good one. You could listen to it a second time. But I just, I do want people

1:16.8

to know about it. And I think you're going to like this particular episode. This is our most

1:21.7

recent one. For those of you who are regular listeners, we will be resuming as soon as I get back,

1:26.6

and we'll probably do two episodes

1:27.9

next week to make up for my absence. But all the same, this is an episode dealing with a column

1:34.7

Krugman wrote about the destruction of the republic and really arguing that Trump has really

1:39.7

capped it off. And Bob and I just thought, that really takes the cake, that he would say that when he has

1:46.4

cheered every single move against Republican government, Republican with a small R, of course,

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