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Contra Krugman

Ep. 9 Is Conservative Rhetoric Making White Men Kill Themselves? Krugman Thinks So

Contra Krugman

Tom Woods

News, Business News

4.7824 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2015

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

On the one hand, Krugman says we really don't know why mortality rates for middle-aged white men have been on the rise. On the other, it's probably because of his political opponents.

We have a much more plausible explanation for this rise, and it isn't because conservatives have been warning about bad economic times. Listen in!

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0:00.0

Contra Krugman, episode 9.

0:05.0

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 Kruugman. 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 LibertyClastroom.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 Report, co-authored with colleague Carlos Lara.

0:49.6

Check it out at contracrugeman.com slash LMR. Welcome to another episode of Contra Krugman. I'm Tom Woods with

0:57.6

Bob Murphy. I don't know what to say about the column we have this week. I actually wrote to Bob and said,

1:03.7

this column is stupid. It's not that the themes in it are stupid, but that it's hard to make out any

1:09.2

real thesis from Krugman, so maybe we ought to just

1:12.0

talk about some blog post he had this week. And Bob came back with, look, if we've told people

1:17.0

we're going to refute his column every week, then doggone it, we're going to do that. We're

1:21.5

going to stick to the column at the very least. If we do other stuff, we add that in as a bonus maybe, but we've got to do the

1:27.8

column. I thought, you know, you're right. We have to stick to our word. Bob, you are on the road.

1:32.7

Why don't you tell people about your circumstances right now? Sure. So I am at an Airbnb in an

1:38.6

undisclosed location in Queens, New York. I flew into LaGuardia. The internet connection seems to be fine, so that should be good.

1:45.8

The one thing I noticed, though, is this morning when the daylight came in,

1:49.7

apparently the people who own this building have a bird.

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