Bob unveils a new recurring series, in which he gives the context of infamous quotations. In this episode, he covers two allegedly shocking quotes from John Lennon, John Maynard Keynes’ “in the long run we’re all dead,” Trump on Nazis being very fine people, Dan Quayle misspelling potato, Obama’s “you didn’t build that,” and Bohm-Bawerk on Karl Marx.
Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest:
- Wikipedia entry on John Lennon’s “more popular than Jesus” comment. Lyrics to “Revolution.”
- Bob and the Music City Friends of Liberty cover “Come Together.”
- Video for Trump’s “very fine people” remark. Video of Obama’s “you didn’t build that.”
- Nancy Pelosi on “We have to pass the bill to find out what’s in it.”
- Bohm-Bawerk’s Karl Marx and the Close of His System.
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Robert P. Murphy is a Senior Fellow with the Mises Institute. He is the author of many books. His latest is Contra Krugman: Smashing the Errors of America's Most Famous Keynesian. His other works include Chaos Theory, Lessons for the Young Economist, and Choice: Cooperation, Enterprise, and Human Action (Independent Institute, 2015) which is a modern distillation of the essentials of Mises's thought for the layperson. Murphy is co-host, with Tom Woods, of the popular podcast Contra Krugman, which is a weekly refutation of Paul Krugman's New York Times column. He is also host of The Bob Murphy Show.
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