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Contra Krugman — 225 episodes · page 1 of 3
Ep. 225 The Final Episode
Ep. 224 Krugman Bravely Comes Out Against Killing Workers
Ep. 223 Krugman Unwittingly Agrees the Fed Has Driven Stock Market Since 2007
Ep. 222 Why Won't We Listen to the Experts?
Ep. 221 The Destructive Coronavirus Response, Cheered by Krugman
Ep. 220 Coronavirus Economics
Ep. 219 Krugman Wants Perpetual Deficits
Ep. 218 We Need Financial Regulation, Says Krugman
Ep. 217 Do Deficits Help Depressed Economies?
Ep. 216 Krugman Hearts Greta Thunberg
Ep. 215 Don't Worry About the Deficit!
Ep. 214 Austerity Is Just What the World's Economies Needed
Ep. 213 Trump's Tariff War a Flop?
Ep. 212 Trump, Crony Capitalism, and Impeachment
Ep. 211 LIVE FROM VIENNA: Is Europe an Example for the U.S.?
Ep. 210 Elizabeth Warren's Fiscal Fantasies
Ep. 209 Robots Aren't the Problem
Ep. 208 Debt Is Money We Owe to Ourselves, Idiot!
Ep. 207 Krugman Embraces Warren, Discards Economics
Ep. 206 Are You Deranged for Opposing Regulation?
Ep. 205 Is This Evidence of an Authoritarian Regime?
Ep. 204 Krugman's Worst Blunders
Ep. 203 Deeper Economic Analysis of Slavery, Free Trade vs. Welfare, and Debt Repudiation
Ep. 202 David Stockman on Western Regimes Entering Cuckoo Land
Ep. 201 The White Nationalist Hoax
Ep. 200 Krugman on Bonds & Uncertainty: Interesting, But Still Wrong
Ep. 199 Krugman: Trump's Tax Cuts Make the 1% -- and Rich Foreigners -- Richer
Ep. 198 Should We Prevent the Rich from Living Longer?
Ep. 197 Is Privatization (Including Prisons) Expensive and Evil?
Ep. 196 There Aren't Any Socialists in the Democratic Party?
Ep. 195 Trump Demands Lower Interest Rates; Krugman's Head Explodes
Ep. 194 Elizabeth Warren Has Some Great Ideas
Ep. 193 How Dare Trump Criticize Britain's National Health Service
Ep. 192 Your Deepest Questions About the Fed Answered
Ep. 191 Krugman Admits Hurting Trump Better Than Helping the Country, When It Comes to Infrastructure
Ep. 190 Universal Basic Income, Trade Deficits, and Other Areas of Confusion
Ep. 189 The Truth About Trump and the Tariffs
Ep. 188 Trump's Economy Proves Keynesianism is Right, Says Krugman
Ep. 187 It's OK for Bernie to Be Rich Because He's Not Evil
Ep. 186 Krugman Finally Mentions Mueller -- and It's Straight Outta Orwell
Ep. 185 David Stockman Joins Us to Shred Economist's Love Letter to the Fed
Ep. 184 What Is Trump Doing to the Fed?
Ep. 183 Contra Ocasio-Cortez
Ep. 182 Hooray for the Minimum Wage? How Economists Went Off Track
Ep. 181 Don't Blame Robots for Low Wages
Ep. 180 Are We Full of Irrational Rage? (This One's a Doozy)
Ep. 179 How to Defeat a Smear Attack Against You
Ep. 178 Let's Socialize the Family, Say Warren and Krugman
Ep. 177 Semi-Sensible Krugman vs. Modern Monetary Theory (MMT)
Ep. 176 Trump vs. Socialism?
Ep. 175 The Free Market: Unpopular Without Racism
Ep. 174 They Are Really Coming After the Rich
Ep. 173 The Case for One-Third Communism
Ep. 172 The Government Shutdown: A Big Libertarian Experiment?
Ep. 171 The Economics of Soaking the Rich
Ep. 170 Are Conservatives Hypocrites on Fed Policy?
Ep. 169 You Want the Free Market? You're Unscientific and a Hack
Ep. 168 The Problems With the Green New Deal
Ep. 167 How Can a Free Society Handle Terrorism, Climate Change, and Quarantines?
Ep. 166 Krugman's Recent Q&A: His (Lousy) Answers, and Ours
Ep. 165 Why Did a Booming Economy Hit a Snag? (You'll Never Guess Krugman's Answer....)
Ep. 164 Krugman: Backward Hicks Keep Thwarting My Candidates
Ep. 163 Scott Horton on Trump, the Saudis, and Murder
Ep. 162 LIVE FROM THE CONTRA CRUISE: Hard Questions for Libertarians
Ep. 161 The Huge Problem the Fed Caused When It, Ahem, Solved the Last Problem
Ep. 160 Climate Change Alarmists Prematurely Cheer New Nobel Winner
Ep. 159 We're All Angry, Envious White Men
Ep. 158 How to Be Elegant When Smashing Your Enemies With a Sledgehammer
Ep. 157 Krugman's Model Worked Great -- So Long as He Writes the History Books
Ep. 156 Brett Kavanaugh Will Kill the Constitution, Krugman Says
Ep. 155 What Would Happen If One Country Became Free, and the Rest Had States?
Ep. 154 The Economic Freedom of the States Proves Our Point, Not Krugman's
Ep. 153 Elizabeth Warren's Accountable Capitalism Act
Ep. 152 Krugman Hearts Pelosi for Giving Us Obamacare, Stimulus, Financial Reform
Ep. 151 Krugman Is a Crypto-Skeptic, and for Lousy Reasons
Ep. 150 We Need the State to Protect Workers
Ep. 149 How to Unwind the Welfare State
Ep. 148 LIVE FROM MISES U: Why Does Austrian Economics Matter to the Average Person?
Ep. 147 Krugman Hearts Democratic Socialists; We Don't
Ep. 146 Trump's Fake Victories?
Ep. 145 The Libertarian Wing of the Libertarian Party
Ep. 144 How to Answer Climate Alarmists? Read Their Own Reports
Ep. 143 Here's What Krugman Did to Win the Nobel Prize
Ep. 142 KRUGMAN FLATTENED: The Neocons Are Sincere, He Says, But Everyone Else Is a Shill for the Coal Industry
Ep. 141 Do You Want the Crankish Monetary System We Have Now, or This Other Crankish Monetary System?
Ep. 140 Fascism Is Coming to Europe
Ep. 139 Why Are Drug Prices So High in the U.S.?
Ep. 138 The War on Dissidents, Which Krugman Pretends Not to See
Ep. 137 Is Taxation Theft? Not If You're Not Entitled to Your Paycheck in the First Place, Says Philosopher
Ep. 136 You Hate Schoolteachers, and Education, and Knowledge
Ep. 135 Evil Fossil Fuel People Are Keeping Renewable Energy Down!
Ep. 134 Liberals Are Honest, Aren't Bootlickers, and Admit Their Mistakes, Unlike Krugman's Stupid and Evil Enemies
Ep. 133 Protectionism Doesn't Cause Depressions, But Here's What It Does Do
Ep. 132 The Phillips Curve and Keynesian La-La Land: The Alleged Relationship Between Unemployment and Inflation
Ep. 131 Trade and Tariffs, and Should We Fear a Strong Dollar?
Ep. 130 Contra Robert Reich
Ep. 129 Trump's Tariffs Are Bad (and So Is Krugman)
Ep. 128 The Destructive Idiocy of "Modern Monetary Theory"
Ep. 127 Krugman Is Half Right: He Says Half the Political Class Are Liars
Ep. 126 Deficit Hawks Are Hypocrites (Says Krugman, Who Is 100% Not a Hypocrite)