Contra Krugman, episode 97.

Welcome to the podcast that takes apart Paul Kruikman's New York Times column.

Join us as Tom Woods and Bob Murphy teach economics by uncovering and dissecting the arrows of Krookman.

Nobel Prize winner, newspaper columnist, and Destroyer of Nations.

It's time for Contra Krugman.

All right. Welcome, everybody, to another episode of Contra Krugman. I'm here with Bob Murphy,

and we've got a couple special guests to introduce, but I'm particularly happy to tell the listening audience that today we are recording this episode for a live audience here at the Mezes University Program at the Mezes Institute.

We've just been through about a week of intense training in Austrian economics, and everyone is still full of energy and zeal.

Am I right?

Yes. All right.

Now, going up through this past Monday, Paul Krugman, I am not joking, had released five consecutive columns on health care. Now, it's the job of this

podcast to refute those columns, but after a while, if he insists on saying the same darn thing

over and over, we are going to force him to say something different. So sometimes we'll

dig into his archives to find something to talk about or we'll go to

the blog that he has, where sometimes he talks about more technical economics. But this week,

we've decided, look, it's meas as you. Anything goes, right? Make up our own rules as we go along.

So what we're going to talk about today, actually, which is to an extent Contra Krugman,

which reminds me, I think you emailed me this morning. I never got around to opening it. So I hope that wasn't important. The subject line was

Krugman, so I can't imagine that. It was just stuff for the show. Yeah. I just didn't get to that.

Anyway, I thought by putting Krugman, it would mean, I didn't mean like, hey, guess I

bummed to do it at breakfast?

You never believe it.

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