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Join Bob Murphy and Tom Woods in this weekly libertarian podcast as they teach economics by refuting Paul Krugman's New York Times column. Plus, expect special guests like Ron Paul, David St...
On this final episode of Contra Krugman after nearly five years, we analyze Krugman's horrified response to state reopenings after the lockd...
With his usual magnanimity, Krugman declares that the epidemiologists have been completely accurate in their warnings during the pandemic, w...
In his attempt to praise Powell and criticize Trump, Krugman admits that the "real economy" is in terrible shape, and that the stock market...
Krugman is unhappy that the "right wing" is more apt to listen to people he considers quacks than to people he considers experts, and he say...
Guest co-host Richard Ebeling -- who was one of Bob's own economics professors -- joins me to discuss Krugman's qualified support for the $2...
This episode delves into all the key questions surrounding the economics of the coronavirus crisis: bailouts, Federal Reserve policy, paymen...
In a perhaps surprising move for someone who said "deficits matter again" upon Trump's election, Krugman now makes the case for perpetual bu...
What really matters, says Krugman, is financial regulation. And only Elizabeth Warren can deliver, because Bernie will expend his political...
Krugman complains that during the Obama years, when deficit spending was desperately needed, obstructionist Republicans opposed it out of wh...
Krugman says Greta Thunberg is closer the economics mainstream than are her critics. Quite a few whoppers to deal with in this one, as you c...
That's Krugman's message now. Interestingly, back in 2003 the very indicators he's now using to tell us not to worry were actually less pron...
Krugman blames the "austerity" that began a decade ago for ensuing economic ills and political instability. This is a fashionable enough vie...
Although details are still emerging, a deal has evidently been reached between China and the United States regarding trade. Did Trump accomp...
We discuss the impeachment, Krugman's selective praise for whistleblowers, and what the correct approach to the problem of "crony capitalism...
We recorded this episode before a live audience at -- of all places -- the Austrian central bank in Vienna, where the Austrian Economics Cen...
Krugman is impressed by the detail and alleged seriousness of Elizabeth Warren's Medicare for All plan and how it will be paid for. Bob and...
Krugman criticizes Democrats who think automation is behind American job losses. But just when he's sounding sensible, he jumps back into "i...
We got a lot of requests for an episode on debt after Krugman tweeted that "debt is money we owe to ourselves." What's the real truth? Show...
Historian and podcast host Brion McClanahan joins Bob to discuss Krugman's defense of Elizabeth Warren against the big bad plutocrats, who a...
Krugman says people on the political right get inordinately worked up over minor regulations that have a clear public benefit, and that such...
Krugman argues that an undemocratic, authoritarian regime is being built in the United States, and cites Sharpiegate and Trump's treatment o...
We take listener questions in this episode, from Krugman's worst blunders, to how the Fed might return interest rates to their natural level...
Because Krugman is a bore, Tom and Bob field questions from the listeners. They handle objections about their recent arguments concerning th...
David Stockman, director of the Office of Management and Budget under Ronald Reagan, joins Tom (Bob is on vacation) to explain what's really...
The ordinarily serene Bob Murphy is genuinely outraged in this episode, in which we cover Krugman's casual claim that Donald Trump is trying...
Bob minds the store and explains what is interesting about Krugman's discussion on bonds vs. stocks as ways to forecast recession, how an in...
Krugman says that since Trump's tax cuts amounted to nothing but a giveaway to wealthy shareholders, and since many of those are foreigners,...
In an "op-ed from the future," Krugman speculates about a world in which "the rich" have access to life-extending technology. Should they be...
Krugman suggests that although it makes sense for much of the economy to be in private hands, there are some sectors where private control w...
There aren't any real socialists running in the Democratic Party, says Krugman, because none of them want to abolish private ownership of th...
Krugman is horrified at Trump's pressure on the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates. Yet he thinks a case can be made for doing precisel...
Krugman is very impressed by Elizabeth Warren, who he thinks has a whole bunch of very good, detailed policy proposals. This is precisely wh...
Krugman is horrified that Donald Trump has been critical of the National Health Service (NHS) in Britain. Why, the NHS is doing a great job!...
We do another Q&A episode this week, a good portion of which revolves around the Federal Reserve: the best ways to undermine it, how we migh...
Bob flies solo to point out a shocking admission in Krugman's column: He actually thinks Democrats are lucky that Trump backed out of an inf...
Bob and Tom take some outstanding and very important and helpful listener questions in this episode, such as: what is one legitimate contrib...
The issue of international trade is not a simple one of a difference of opinion: Trump genuinely appears not to understand the subject. We s...
After having predicted that the election of Trump would lead to economic hard times as far as the eye could see, Krugman's new line is that...
Krugman addresses the claim that Bernie Sanders, who until recently had been railing against "millionaires and billionaires," is a hypocrite...
Had the Mueller report truly vindicated Krugman, we can be certain his victory-lap column would have come swiftly. Now that he's finally got...
Greg Mankiw, a professor of economics at Harvard, wrote an article for the New York Times urging America to preserve the Federal Reserve he...
Krugman is very unhappy about the nominations of Stephen Moore and Herman Cain to the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors. (Cain's nominati...
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the controversial left-wing member of Congress, got into a Twitter war when she observed that a mere croissant at...
In paying his respects to the recently deceased Alan Krueger, author of the widely discussed 1994 Card-Krueger study on the minimum wage, Kr...
Krugman starts off more or less all right in this one, arguing that robots aren't the reason wages aren't higher. But then he goes off into...
Krugman can't get over the stupid things his opponents get upset about, and how full of irrational rage they are -- quite unlike today's lef...
This week, although we do cover Krugman a bit, we use a recent Caitlin Johnstone article as a springboard for discussion. With social media...
This week Krugman endorses Elizabeth Warren's plan for subsidized child care at the federal level. It's so cheap, and it would help so many...
Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is picking up steam (thanks to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders), to the point that even Krugman is...
Socialism isn't all that radical, insists Krugman. Plus: virtually all people who call themselves socialists just want to be like Denmark, n...