Ep. 87 LIVE IN SEATTLE: Krugman Wrong on Everything
Contra Krugman
Tom Woods
4.7 • 822 Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2017
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
For the second time, we recorded a live episode of the show in Seattle. We hit health care, foreign policy, taxes, and more. Thanks to the energetic crowd!
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| 0:00.0 | Contra Krugman, episode 87. |
| 0:05.9 | Welcome to the podcast that takes apart Paul Krugman's New York Times column. |
| 0:10.5 | Join us as Tom Woods and Bob Murphy teach economics by uncovering and dissecting the arrows of Krugman. |
| 0:16.5 | Nobel Prize winner, newspaper columnist, and Destroyer of Nations. |
| 0:20.5 | It's time for Contra Krugman. |
| 0:23.8 | Welcome, ladies and gentlemen. I'm Tom Woods. This is Bob Murphy, and this is Contra Krugman. Live here in Seattle. |
| 0:36.1 | As Betsy mentioned, Bob and I do this every week. |
| 0:39.0 | We release an episode of Contra Krugman every week. |
| 0:41.4 | We review one of the two New York Times columns that Krugman has released that week, and |
| 0:46.8 | we critique it. |
| 0:48.4 | We search and search for something to find wrong in that column, and then we teach economics |
| 0:53.9 | by doing so. |
| 0:55.0 | Can I just say something real fast? |
| 0:57.0 | Sure. |
| 0:58.0 | For the people here in studio as it were, I was glad to know. |
| 1:01.0 | I'll admit, I knew for a while that Tom makes more money than I do, but I was glad to realize |
| 1:05.0 | after Walters talk, it's because I do more housework. |
| 1:08.0 | So I was glad it all makes sense now. |
| 1:14.5 | There are a few inside jokes in the podcast that will be understood by people who've |
| 1:19.6 | been listening to a number of them. So if some people laugh at something and you're not following |
| 1:24.1 | it, I don't know. What's our advice in that situation? |
| 1:29.3 | Just laugh and pretend that you get the joke too. I'm pretending to get the joke. |
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