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Ep. 225 The Final Episode

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Ep. 224 Krugman Bravely Comes Out Against Killing Workers

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Ep. 223 Krugman Unwittingly Agrees the Fed Has Driven Stock Market Since 2007

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Ep. 222 Why Won't We Listen to the Experts?

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Ep. 221 The Destructive Coronavirus Response, Cheered by Krugman

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Ep. 220 Coronavirus Economics

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Ep. 219 Krugman Wants Perpetual Deficits

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Ep. 218 We Need Financial Regulation, Says Krugman

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Ep. 217 Do Deficits Help Depressed Economies?

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Ep. 216 Krugman Hearts Greta Thunberg

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Ep. 215 Don't Worry About the Deficit!

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Ep. 214 Austerity Is Just What the World's Economies Needed

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Ep. 213 Trump's Tariff War a Flop?

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Ep. 212 Trump, Crony Capitalism, and Impeachment

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Ep. 211 LIVE FROM VIENNA: Is Europe an Example for the U.S.?

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Ep. 210 Elizabeth Warren's Fiscal Fantasies

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Ep. 209 Robots Aren't the Problem

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Ep. 208 Debt Is Money We Owe to Ourselves, Idiot!

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Ep. 207 Krugman Embraces Warren, Discards Economics

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Ep. 206 Are You Deranged for Opposing Regulation?

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Ep. 205 Is This Evidence of an Authoritarian Regime?

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Ep. 204 Krugman's Worst Blunders

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Ep. 203 Deeper Economic Analysis of Slavery, Free Trade vs. Welfare, and Debt Repudiation

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Ep. 202 David Stockman on Western Regimes Entering Cuckoo Land

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Ep. 201 The White Nationalist Hoax

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Ep. 200 Krugman on Bonds & Uncertainty: Interesting, But Still Wrong

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Ep. 199 Krugman: Trump's Tax Cuts Make the 1% -- and Rich Foreigners -- Richer

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Ep. 198 Should We Prevent the Rich from Living Longer?

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Ep. 197 Is Privatization (Including Prisons) Expensive and Evil?

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Ep. 196 There Aren't Any Socialists in the Democratic Party?

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Ep. 195 Trump Demands Lower Interest Rates; Krugman's Head Explodes

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Ep. 194 Elizabeth Warren Has Some Great Ideas

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Ep. 193 How Dare Trump Criticize Britain's National Health Service

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Ep. 192 Your Deepest Questions About the Fed Answered

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Ep. 191 Krugman Admits Hurting Trump Better Than Helping the Country, When It Comes to Infrastructure

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Ep. 190 Universal Basic Income, Trade Deficits, and Other Areas of Confusion

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Ep. 189 The Truth About Trump and the Tariffs

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Ep. 188 Trump's Economy Proves Keynesianism is Right, Says Krugman

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Ep. 187 It's OK for Bernie to Be Rich Because He's Not Evil

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Ep. 186 Krugman Finally Mentions Mueller -- and It's Straight Outta Orwell

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Ep. 185 David Stockman Joins Us to Shred Economist's Love Letter to the Fed

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Ep. 184 What Is Trump Doing to the Fed?

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Ep. 183 Contra Ocasio-Cortez

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Ep. 182 Hooray for the Minimum Wage? How Economists Went Off Track

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Ep. 181 Don't Blame Robots for Low Wages

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Ep. 180 Are We Full of Irrational Rage? (This One's a Doozy)

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Ep. 179 How to Defeat a Smear Attack Against You

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Ep. 178 Let's Socialize the Family, Say Warren and Krugman

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Ep. 177 Semi-Sensible Krugman vs. Modern Monetary Theory (MMT)

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Ep. 176 Trump vs. Socialism?

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Ep. 175 The Free Market: Unpopular Without Racism

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Ep. 174 They Are Really Coming After the Rich

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Ep. 173 The Case for One-Third Communism

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Ep. 172 The Government Shutdown: A Big Libertarian Experiment?

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Ep. 171 The Economics of Soaking the Rich

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Ep. 170 Are Conservatives Hypocrites on Fed Policy?

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Ep. 169 You Want the Free Market? You're Unscientific and a Hack

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Ep. 168 The Problems With the Green New Deal

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Ep. 167 How Can a Free Society Handle Terrorism, Climate Change, and Quarantines?

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Ep. 166 Krugman's Recent Q&A: His (Lousy) Answers, and Ours

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Ep. 165 Why Did a Booming Economy Hit a Snag? (You'll Never Guess Krugman's Answer....)

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Ep. 164 Krugman: Backward Hicks Keep Thwarting My Candidates

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Ep. 163 Scott Horton on Trump, the Saudis, and Murder

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Ep. 162 LIVE FROM THE CONTRA CRUISE: Hard Questions for Libertarians

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Ep. 161 The Huge Problem the Fed Caused When It, Ahem, Solved the Last Problem

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Ep. 160 Climate Change Alarmists Prematurely Cheer New Nobel Winner

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Ep. 159 We're All Angry, Envious White Men

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Ep. 158 How to Be Elegant When Smashing Your Enemies With a Sledgehammer

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Ep. 157 Krugman's Model Worked Great -- So Long as He Writes the History Books

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Ep. 156 Brett Kavanaugh Will Kill the Constitution, Krugman Says

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Ep. 155 What Would Happen If One Country Became Free, and the Rest Had States?

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Ep. 154 The Economic Freedom of the States Proves Our Point, Not Krugman's

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Ep. 153 Elizabeth Warren's Accountable Capitalism Act

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Ep. 152 Krugman Hearts Pelosi for Giving Us Obamacare, Stimulus, Financial Reform

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Ep. 151 Krugman Is a Crypto-Skeptic, and for Lousy Reasons

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Ep. 150 We Need the State to Protect Workers

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Ep. 149 How to Unwind the Welfare State

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Ep. 148 LIVE FROM MISES U: Why Does Austrian Economics Matter to the Average Person?

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Ep. 147 Krugman Hearts Democratic Socialists; We Don't

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Ep. 146 Trump's Fake Victories?

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Ep. 145 The Libertarian Wing of the Libertarian Party

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Ep. 144 How to Answer Climate Alarmists? Read Their Own Reports

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Ep. 143 Here's What Krugman Did to Win the Nobel Prize

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Ep. 142 KRUGMAN FLATTENED: The Neocons Are Sincere, He Says, But Everyone Else Is a Shill for the Coal Industry

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Ep. 141 Do You Want the Crankish Monetary System We Have Now, or This Other Crankish Monetary System?

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Ep. 140 Fascism Is Coming to Europe

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Ep. 139 Why Are Drug Prices So High in the U.S.?

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Ep. 138 The War on Dissidents, Which Krugman Pretends Not to See

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Ep. 137 Is Taxation Theft? Not If You're Not Entitled to Your Paycheck in the First Place, Says Philosopher

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Ep. 136 You Hate Schoolteachers, and Education, and Knowledge

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Ep. 135 Evil Fossil Fuel People Are Keeping Renewable Energy Down!

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Ep. 134 Liberals Are Honest, Aren't Bootlickers, and Admit Their Mistakes, Unlike Krugman's Stupid and Evil Enemies

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Ep. 133 Protectionism Doesn't Cause Depressions, But Here's What It Does Do

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Ep. 132 The Phillips Curve and Keynesian La-La Land: The Alleged Relationship Between Unemployment and Inflation

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Ep. 131 Trade and Tariffs, and Should We Fear a Strong Dollar?

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Ep. 130 Contra Robert Reich

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Ep. 129 Trump's Tariffs Are Bad (and So Is Krugman)

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Ep. 128 The Destructive Idiocy of "Modern Monetary Theory"

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Ep. 127 Krugman Is Half Right: He Says Half the Political Class Are Liars

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Ep. 126 Deficit Hawks Are Hypocrites (Says Krugman, Who Is 100% Not a Hypocrite)