Contra Krugman

Historian and podcast host Brion McClanahan joins Bob to discuss Krugman's defense of Elizabeth Warren against the big bad plutocrats,...

Krugman says people on the political right get inordinately worked up over minor regulations that have a clear public benefit,...

Krugman argues that an undemocratic, authoritarian regime is being built in the United States, and cites Sharpiegate and Trump's treatment...

We take listener questions in this episode, from Krugman's worst blunders, to how the Fed might return interest rates to...

Because Krugman is a bore, Tom and Bob field questions from the listeners. They handle objections about their recent arguments...

David Stockman, director of the Office of Management and Budget under Ronald Reagan, joins Tom (Bob is on vacation) to...

The ordinarily serene Bob Murphy is genuinely outraged in this episode, in which we cover Krugman's casual claim that Donald...

Bob minds the store and explains what is interesting about Krugman's discussion on bonds vs. stocks as ways to forecast...

Krugman says that since Trump's tax cuts amounted to nothing but a giveaway to wealthy shareholders, and since many of...

In an "op-ed from the future," Krugman speculates about a world in which "the rich" have access to life-extending technology....

Krugman suggests that although it makes sense for much of the economy to be in private hands, there are some...

There aren't any real socialists running in the Democratic Party, says Krugman, because none of them want to abolish private...