All Episodes

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)

Ep. 125 Is the Stock Market Telling Us Something?

Ep. 124 Bitcoin Is Evil, and a Bubble, Says Krugman

Ep. 123 We're Forgetting How Bad Previous Presidents Were

Ep. 122 Varieties of Wrongness: The Different Kinds of Keynesianism

Ep. 121 We've Never Had a President Who.... Oh, Really?

Ep. 120 Krugman Tries to Explain Away the 2017 Economy

Ep. 119 Is Bitcoin More Evil Than Krugman?

Ep. 118 Krugman Talks Taxes, Debt, and the Innovative Post Office

Ep. 117 How Bob Smacked Down Krugman on the Financial Crisis

Ep. 116 Krugman Hearts the Neocons for Their Principles

Ep. 115 Brutal: Contra Krugman Takes on Krugman's P.C. List of America's Sins

Ep. 114 What's Wrong With Keynes, in a Nutshell

Ep. 113 Will Tax Cuts Mean Millions of Lost Manufacturing Jobs?

Ep. 112 Don't Get Excited About Tax Cuts, Says Krugman; Results Will Be Pitiful

Ep. 111 Cutting Corporate Taxes Helps Only "The Rich," Says Krugman

Ep. 110 Krugman Demands We Admit Our Mistakes, Embrace the Fed

Ep. 109 LIVE from the Contra Cruise: Do People Behave the Way Economists Predict?

Ep. 108 Do We Need an Interventionist at the Fed?

Ep. 107 The Problems With Tax Reform

Ep. 106 One of the Top Krugman Errors Ever, Literally Out of Economics 101

Ep. 105 How Bad Is the Latest GOP Health Care Bill? (Includes Great Bob/Tom Banter)

Ep. 104 Another 9/11 Anniversary, and the Political Class Is Still Stupid (and/or Evil)

Ep. 103 Krugman Fair With Sessions? Keep DREAMing

Ep. 102 Hurricane Harvey, Climate Change

Ep. 101 Krugman: Trump and Republicans Plot Against Workers

Ep. 100 Ron Paul's Guide to 2017

Ep. 99 Krugman Doesn't Get What Happened in 2008

Ep. 98 Do Krugman's Opponents Lie About Taxes, Health Care, and Everything Else? Or Is Krugman Just Dead Wrong?

Ep. 97 How Central Banks Hurt Regular People (LIVE from Mises U)

Ep. 96 Long Ago, Weren't Conservatives Better Than They Are Now?

Ep. 95 Do Economic Laws Have Expiration Dates?

Ep. 94 The Disastrous Results of a Trade War

Ep. 93 The Seattle Minimum Wage Policy Is a Disaster

Ep. 92 Krugman Says GOP Policies Are Zombies and Vampires

Ep. 91 You Know Where There Won't Be a Shipwreck

Ep. 90 Trump Has Destroyed the Planet!

Ep. 89 Risking the Planet?

Ep. 88 Krugman: Free Markets Are the Real Road to Serfdom!

Ep. 87 LIVE IN SEATTLE: Krugman Wrong on Everything

Ep. 86 Krugman Warns Fellow Elites: We Are Under Attack

Ep. 85 Trump Is Terrible, and His Supporters Won't Admit It, Says Krugman

Ep. 84 Tax Cuts, Shmax Cuts: They're Overrated, Says Krugman

Ep. 83 Why All the Talk About Manufacturing? Don't All Jobs Matter?

Ep. 82 Is Krugman Right About Syria?

Ep. 81 Trump the President and Trump the Candidate Seem Rather Different

Ep. 80 When Krugman Struck Back at Bob on Business Cycles

Ep. 79 Since Government Is Awesome, Where and Why Would You Cut the Budget?

Ep. 78 If You're Not a Keynesian, You're Not Living in Reality

Ep. 77 It's Easy to Criticize, But How Good Are Self-Proclaimed Free Market People at Devising Alternatives?

Ep. 76 Has Obamacare Really Saved Lives? Plus: Now Krugman Knows How Libertarians Feel All the Time

Ep. 75 Tax Cutting and Deregulation: It's a Myth That These Cause Economic Growth!!

Ep. 74 If Ignorance Is Strength, How Strong Is Krugman?

Ep. 73 Trade, Tariffs, Walls, and Trump

Ep. 72 Will Trump Make Manufacturing Decline Faster?

Ep. 71 Krugman: Things Are Going to Get Worse, and When They Do, My Opponents Will Manufacture Their Own Reality

Ep. 70 The Obama Years: A Libertarian Assessment

Ep. 69 This Is Why Our Podcast Exists: Krugman Literally Says Deficits Matter Again -- at the Very Moment a Republican Takes Over

Ep. 68 Corruption: What Krugman Sees, and What He Pretends Not to See

Ep. 67 Protectionism Is Bad (but When Democrats Support It, Krugman Will Find Excuses)

Ep. 66 Krugman's a Little Late to Be Worrying About the Republic: His Analogies with the Ancient World Are Lame

Ep. 65 Did the Russians Hack the Election?

Ep. 64 Why It's Impossible to Keep Only the "Good Parts" of Obamacare

Ep. 63 On Education, We Catch Krugman Telling the Exact Opposite of the Truth

Ep. 62 Krugman Desperate to Oppose Trump Infrastructure Stimulus

Ep. 61 Surprise: Krugman's Concerned about the Debt Again

Ep. 60 Krugman Copes With Trump: Special Guest David Stockman

Ep. 59 The Media's Tough on Hillary Because of Right-Wing Pressure, Says Paul "La-La Land" Krugman

Ep. 58 Only Idiots Worry About the National Debt

Ep. 57 Everything Is Awesome, So Why Are Trump and Ryan Complaining, Wonders Krugman

Ep. 56 LIVE from the Contra Cruise: How Krugman Wants to Make You Poorer

Ep. 55 Krugman, Trump, and Trade

Ep. 54 Watch Out: Hillary and the Government Want to Help Families

Ep. 53 Krugman's Stern Warning: Don't You Dare Vote for the Crazy Libertarians

Ep. 52 Why Would Anyone Think Hillary Clinton Isn't Truthful?

Ep. 51 Not Voting Democrat? Then You Want to Kill Children, Says Krugman

Ep. 50 Cuts to Planned Parenthood Caused Pregnant Women to Die? Here's the Real Story Behind This Whopper

Ep. 49 Obamacare Sinking? Why, It's Just a Flesh Wound, Says Krugman!

Ep. 48 Where Does Economic Growth Come From? Krugman Genuinely Stumped

Ep. 47 Time for Lots of Borrowing and Spending?

Ep. 46 Krugman to NeverTrumpers: Hillary Probably Won't Be a Disaster

Ep. 45 Contra Krugman LIVE: Are We Just Like Milton Friedman? Where Austria and Chicago Differ

Ep. 44 Booming Stock Market Indicates Bad Times, Says Krugman

Ep. 43 Krugman Says Investors Have Given Up Hope...So, What Happened to that Obama Recovery, Paul?

Ep. 42 Without Government, Workers Are Doomed

Ep. 41 Brexit and Liberty: Krugman Wrong Again

Ep. 40 Krugman Shocked by GOP "Scandals," Not So Shocked at Destruction of Libya, Iraq

Ep. 39 It's Easy to Fix the Slowing Economy: Try Something That's Never Worked, Says Krugman

Ep. 38 When Businessmen Are Clueless About the Economy

Ep. 37 Our Most Brutal Takedown Yet: Krugman on the Clinton Economy

Ep. 36 LIVE FROM SEATTLE: Krugman's Greatest Hits

Ep. 35 Debt Default: Good or Bad?

Ep. 34 What the World Needs Is More Spending

Ep. 33 Krugman and Hamilton Sitting in a Tree

Ep. 32 Why Antitrust Is the Problem, Not the Solution

Ep. 31 The Nonsensical Case for More Regulation

Ep. 30 Obama's Been a Great President? Not So Fast

Ep. 29 We're Told to Fear Globalization, but We Shouldn't

Ep. 28 Income Mobility Really Does Exist, Paul Krugman

Ep. 27 Is Free Trade Good or Bad?

Ep. 26: Trump, China, Trade, and Currency Manipulation: It's All Here

Ep. 25 Krugman Says: You Racist Republicans Paved Way for Trump

Ep. 24 Krugman Attacks Bernie; Bernie's Supporters Hit Back

Ep. 23 Krugman: You're Stupid If You Oppose Stimulus

Ep. 22 Fear Balanced Budgets and Sound Money, Warns Krugman

Ep. 21 Did the Financial Crisis Occur Because the Fed Was Too Timid?

Ep. 20 Government Water Supply Is Contaminated? Don't Blame Government, Urges Krugman

Ep. 19 Enough About Inequality Already; Here's the Truth

Ep. 18 Krugman on China: No Matter What Happens, He's Proven Right!

Ep. 17 The Dramatic Consequences of American Elections, and Yes, We're Being Sarcastic

Ep. 16 George W. Bush Was for Small Government, Says Krugman

Ep. 15 Krugman Calls for Housing Bubble, Tries to Weasel Out of It, Then Blames Capitalism

Ep. 14 Krugman's Climate Hysteria Refuted

Ep. 13 Krugman's Lame Defense of the Obama Economy

Ep. 12 Krugman Wants Less Regulation; Our Podcast Is Wearing Him Down

Ep. 11 Ignore the Bad News About Obamacare! Everything Is Fine!

Ep. 10 Terrorism Creates Jobs

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

Ep. 8 Does the Economy Perform Better Under Democrats?

Ep. 7 Obamacare Is a Big Success, Says Krugman

Ep. 6 Enough About Denmark Already: Here's What Krugman and Sanders Left Out

Ep. 5 Who's Crazy?

Ep. 4 Krugman Hearts Solar and Wind, Attacks Fossil Fuels

Ep. 3: Trump Is Right About Economics, Says Krugman

Ep. 2: Do the World's Governments Need More Debt?

Ep. 1: Why Contra Krugman?