The Econoclasts
autor: UnHerd
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America’s midterm illusion & Europe’s spiralling youth revolt
America’s midterm illusion & Europe’s spiralling youth revolt
O tomto podcastu
The Econoclasts is a new podcast from UnHerd hosted by economist Yanis Varoufakis and journalist Wolfgang Munchau. While they don't always agree politically, they are united in one conviction: the consensus is rotten. Mainstream economics has consistently failed to predict the events that shape our world, yet this broken orthodoxy still dominates policy and media. Each week, they choose two pillars of the established orthodoxy — the "settled facts" — and shatter them, cutting through the spin to connect the dots between money, geopolitics, and the real forces shaping our future.
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- America’s midterm illusion & Europe’s spiralling youth revolt · 49 minIn this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau debunk the myth of the American swing voter ahead of the midterms, reveal why escalating youth riots…
- Brazil's class war victory & AI's silent jobs crisis · 45 minIn this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau dissect the political fallouts in Brazil and Serbia to debunk the prevailing narrative that the rise of…
- The fall of Macron & Europe’s cowardly Ukraine strategy · 42 minIn this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau dissect the catastrophic collapse of Emmanuel Macron’s ‘revolutionary centrist’ experiment in France…
- Trump’s Russian diesel deal & France’s fatal debt collapse · 40 minIn this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau dissect Trump’s Russian diesel deal to expose the collapse of Western unity, while debunking the myth of…
- France’s fiscal crisis & Europe's dangerous war fever · 48 minIn this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau dissect the gathering financial and political storm in France, expose the self-defeating mechanics of…
- Europe's pre-war madness & the reindustrialisation myth · 39 minIn this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau dissect the escalating geopolitical tensions between Western powers, Russia, and China, expose the…
- Germany’s political meltdown & how the Left betrayed Europe · 43 minIn this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau dissect the systemic breakdown of German centrist politics, reveal the uncomfortable truth about…
- The AI extinction myth & Europe’s tech collapse · 45 minIn this AI focussed episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau expose the recent apocalyptic warnings from tech bosses as tricks for regulatory capture…
- Germany's AfD surge & the death of the European project · 45 minIn this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau dissect the political fallout from the AfD’s electoral breakthrough in Germany, debunk the establishment…
- Iceland's EU rejection & the North Atlantic debt trap · 42 minGet your tickets for The Econoclasts Live: The world after capitalism, here: http://unherd.com/econoclastslive In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang…
- America’s debt spiral & China’s big AI bet · 31 minIn this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau debunk the mainstream economic orthodoxy that reserve currency status grants America immunity from…
- The decline of the US empire - with Richard D. Wolff · 38 minIn this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and guest Richard D. Wolff analyse the decline of US imperial hegemony, tracing how eroding global power, systemic economic…
- The wealth tax myth & Britain’s dangerous Rejoin trap · 45 minIn this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau debunk dominant economic orthodoxies surrounding wealth taxes as a quick-fix silver bullet for…
- The greatest fraud in human history – with Ron Paul · 30 minIn this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and guest Representative Ron Paul join forces across the traditional Left-Right political spectrum to debunk the conventional…
- China’s hidden crisis & the West's dangerous wealth bubble · 41 minIn this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau reveal the hidden macroeconomic realities behind China’s ongoing growth recession and local debt crisis…
- The UK’s investment trap & the lie behind Western wealth · 39 minIn this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau dissect the political delusions stalling Western growth, debunking the idea that state investment alone…
- Europe’s populist panic & China’s real free market · 37 minIn this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau dissect the establishment’s self-defeating 'lawfare' strategy against rising right-wing populists like…
- The tragedy of America 250 & the truth about Ukraine · 39 minIn this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau analyse the structural decay of American hegemony at its 250-year milestone, while exposing the…
- The great Brexit myth & Germany’s industrial collapse · 39 minIn this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau debunk the popular orthodoxy surrounding Brexit, exposing the phoney statistics used to fabricate a…
- The fall of Starmer & Europe's great energy swindle · 36 minIn this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau dissect the fallout of Keir Starmer’s resignation to expose a broader Western leadership crisis, before…
- NATO’s narrative collapse & Anthropic’s AI shutdown · 38 minIn this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau expose the dangerous flaws of a newly hyped Trump-Iran pre-deal, reveal how Europe's aggressive shift…
- Germany’s historic humiliation & Britain's financial trap · 37 minIn this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau debunk conventional wisdom by analysing Germany’s shocking UN Security Council voting failure as a…
- AI's job apocalypse & the transhumanist endgame · 35 minIn this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau debunk the delusions surrounding artificial intelligence by examining how its recent ability to solve…
- Europe’s China trap & capitalism’s AI death knell · 38 minIn this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau debunk the mainstream economic orthodoxies surrounding Europe's aggressive tariff strategy against China…
- Trump's secret China truce & Labour's economic chaos · 39 minIn this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau debunk the mainstream narratives around Donald Trump’s recent Beijing summit, reveal how the West’s…
- The end of Starmer & Trump’s shady Iran scam · 37 min🔗Get your tickets for The Econoclasts Live with Hasan Piker here: http://unherd.com/econoclastslive In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau…
- Trump vs. Merz & how London broke Britain · 40 min🔗Get your tickets for The Econoclasts Live with Hasan Piker here: http://unherd.com/econoclastslive In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau…
- The dollar's Gulf bail-out & the end of US hegemony · 34 minIn this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau debunk the orthodox view that the newly established U.S. dollar swap lines for Gulf states are a…
- China's AI war victory & Europe's desperate Russia reunion · 32 minIn this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau pull back the curtain on the fairy tales of Western geopolitical and technological independence, arguing…
- Trump’s Hormuz backlash & Hungary’s revolution illusion · 34 minIn this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau dismantle the orthodoxies surrounding the Iran war and Hungarian election by arguing that Donald Trump’s…
- Iran’s asymmetric victory & Europe’s looming energy shock · 34 minIn this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau dissect the crumbling facade of Western geostrategic and economic orthodoxies, arguing that the United…
- Europe’s Iran delusion & Palantir’s road to extinction · 39 minIn this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau dismantle the orthodoxies of European leadership and AI-driven warfare, breaking down how the EU’s…
- Econoclasts LIVE: Iran and the New World Disorder · 56 minLive from a packed Emmanuel Centre, the Econoclasts brought their podcast to London for a sweeping ‘around-the-globe’ deconstruction of the failing orthodoxies shaping our modern…
- The West’s Iran crisis: Global recession & Russian revenue · 35 minIn this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau dismantle the narratives surrounding the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, breaking down how the…
- How Iran exposed the West’s military weakness · 34 min🔗 Click the following link to get tickets to 'The Econoclasts LIVE' in London on March 23rd: https://unherd.com/econoclastslive In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis…
- NATO’s hidden agenda & why Europe will fail Ukraine · 37 minIn this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau target the orthodoxy of NATO’s post-1991 expansion as well as dismantling the prevailing narrative…
- Trump’s Iran strikes and the new forever war · 27 min🔗 Click the following link to get tickets to 'The Econoclasts LIVE: Is Russia really a threat to Europe?' in London on March 23rd: https://unherd.com/econoclastslive In this…
- Why Trump will win the tariff war · 34 min🔗Go to unherd.com/econoclastslive to get your tickets to Yanis & Wolfgang's upcoming event! In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau pull back…
- Marco Rubio’s new world order & Starmer’s plan to rejoin Europe · 37 minIn this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau dissect the false orthodoxies surrounding the current state of the transatlantic relationship and the…
- The Starmer-Mandelson-Epstein scandal & Musk’s merger · 37 minIn this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau confront the false orthodoxies of finance and power, beginning with a deep dive into the “rigged”…
- Why gold and silver crashed & Trump’s Fed Chair pick · 34 minFollowing a historic price crash for gold and silver after President Trump picked Kevin Warsh to lead the Federal Reserve, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau dismantle the…
- “This isn’t over”: Trump, Greenland & the Davos delusion · 39 minIn this week’s Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau engage in a deconstruction of multiple modern economic and geopolitical myths, from Mark Carney’s Davos speech…
- Europe’s fatal Greenland mistake & China’s real power · 39 minIn the week when President Donald Trump vowed to implement a wave of increasing tariffs on European allies until the United States is allowed to buy Greenland, Yanis Varoufakis…
- Trump’s war on the Fed & Bulgaria’s Euro disaster · 38 minIn the week when the Trump administration threatened criminal charges against Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau expose the high-stakes…
- Venezuela special: Maduro, oil, and Trump’s next target · 32 minIn today’s Venezuela special, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau expose the reality behind the abduction of Nicolás Maduro and the dawn of a ‘Donroe Doctrine’ that signals the…
- 2025: The West’s annus horribilis · 26 minIn this special year-end edition of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau dissect 2025 - a pivotal year and annus horribilis for the European Union in a world…
- Q&A: Germany’s economic death trap & the truth about BRICS · 37 minThis week on a special Q&A edition of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau confront the uncomfortable truths of 2025. From the economic death trap currently…
- Greece’s doom loop & why Europe can’t stand up to Trump · 45 minThis week, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau take aim at two prevailing myths: the widespread belief that Greece's recovery is a heartwarming success story—a model for…
- The AI bubble myth & the truth about Trump’s Venezuela attacks · 40 minThis week, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau take aim at two prevailing orthodoxies. Is the explosive AI boom really a bubble, or is the technology itself forcing a…
- Europe’s identity crisis: Empty values & defence delusion · 39 minThis week, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau take aim at Europe's core illusions. Are Europe's 'values' anything more than a slogan when its leaders fail to defend a French…
