The Econoclasts is a new podcast from @UnHerd, hosted by @YanisVaroufakis and Wolfgang Munchau (@Eurobriefing).
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"When you don't solve the problems, you blame others"
In the latest @econoclasts, @eurobriefing warns that centrist failure to solve economic stagnation has allowed far-Right parties to dominate the agenda through the potent displacement narrative of blaming immigrants.
"The notion that the wealth tax is a silver bullet is totally pie in the sky"
In the latest @econoclasts, @yanisvaroufakis argues that a UK wealth tax would raise a fraction of what central bank policies drain while leaving the systemic causes of inequality untouched.
"This would shock the rejoiners"
In the latest @econoclasts, @eurobriefing warns that the UK's push to rejoin the EU is built on outdated illusions, ignoring that the EU would demand contributions of at least £40–50 billion annually.
"If the US was generating prosperity, would Trump be president?"
In the latest @econoclasts, @yanisvaroufakis argues that outdated metrics hide US and EU economic stagnation, fuelling the far Right as both lose ground to China.
"It's a racketeering industry"
In the latest @econoclasts, @eurobriefing warns that arbitrary defence spending targets simply drive up supplier prices, arguing that public investment is inherently wasteful and privatised services fail without genuine market competition.
"Capitalism fears competition and kills it"
In the latest @econoclasts, @yanisvaroufakis argues capitalism inherently fears competition, predicting state-backed monopolies like Elon Musk’s SpaceX will demand tariffs and protectionism once hit by China's space ecosystem.
"We're all talking about Farage now instead of Andy Burnham"
In the latest @econoclasts, @eurobriefing warns that the establishment's obsession with legally banning and chasing populist rivals like Farage, Trump, and the AfD is actively backfiring and driving voters to them.
"We could see an escalation of this war"
In the latest @econoclasts, @eurobriefing warns that Europe faces severe escalation risks with Russia if Western strikes cross red lines, making an urgent case for a peace settlement to protect critical NATO installations.
"America had its shot at catharsis"
In the latest @econoclasts, @yanisvaroufakis explains how the US weaponised its 1970s economic deficits into global hegemony, sacrificing its working class to power Wall Street and a permanent military-industrial complex.
"A genuine electricity market is an impossibility"
In the latest @econoclasts, @yanisvaroufakis argues a genuine electricity market is structurally impossible because its unique traits create an inevitable natural monopoly that only breeds a ruthless form of state capitalism.
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📺 | @Econoclasts | Esta semana, @yanisvaroufakis y @EuroBriefing abordan el sorprendente fracaso de Alemania en la elección de los miembros del Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU y la dependencia del Reino Unido al capital estadounidense apalancado.
🔗 youtube.com/watch?v=78Dgi9bK…
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"Germany failed to win a vote"
In the latest @econoclasts, @eurobriefing argues that Germany’s failure to secure a UN Security Council seat against Austria and Portugal exposes its eroding economic strength, erratic foreign policy, and the broader decline of Europe itself.
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Could a robust, sovereign nation-state modelled on the principles of French president Charles de Gaulle save an exhausted Britain? Or is so-called “Anglo-Gaullism” just a hopeful delusion of X-addicted conservatives? Journalist @ClarkeMicah and UnHerd columnist @arisroussinos face off against political commentators @thephilippics and @Stsantek in this live debate at the UnHerd Club. youtu.be/bp4dgVtlSwQ
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"Jeff Bezos pockets 40% of the price you paid"
In the latest @econoclasts, @yanisvaroufakis argues that Big Tech platforms like Amazon are not free marketplaces but privately owned, top-down algorithmic systems akin to a digital Soviet Gosplan.
“If I’m right, capitalism is simply incompatible with these technologies”
@yanisvaroufakis and @EuroBriefing debunk the mainstream economic orthodoxies surrounding the rise of AI and Big Tech, warning that it is not the future of market capitalism - but rather, its death knell.
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"The whole nature of work is going to be thrown up in the air"
In the latest @econoclasts, @yanisvaroufakis warns that AI will fundamentally disrupt capitalism by shattering the link between labour time and pay, forcing workers into 24/7 on-call roles or profit-sharing models.
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"What happened here is quite mind-boggling"
In the latest @econoclasts, @eurobriefing warns that AI's breakthrough in solving an impossible maths problem proves it can replicate human logic, making a massive wave of job displacement far more likely than previously thought.
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We have very regrettably had to cancel our @Econoclasts event with Hasan Piker this week. He was going to be challenged in a new and interesting way — now that cannot happen.
@UnHerd stands for free thinking, free enquiry and free expression. For meeting bad arguments with counter-arguments, not cancelling or "de-platforming". The ideal of free speech only counts if you defend the right of those you strongly disagree with to speak. Otherwise it is meaningless.
Personally I have been very depressed by people on the political Right who have talked the talk on free speech for years — we have campaigned alongside them against censorship over Covid, gender and much else — but who are now seemingly all too happy to forcibly silence people they don't agree with.
We will continue to fight against intellectual dishonesty, illiberalism and boneheadedness whichever political colour it takes.
"What happened here is quite mind-boggling"
In the latest @econoclasts, @eurobriefing warns that AI's breakthrough in solving an impossible maths problem proves it can replicate human logic, making a massive wave of job displacement far more likely than previously thought.
"Jeff Bezos pockets 40% of the price you paid"
In the latest @econoclasts, @yanisvaroufakis argues that Big Tech platforms like Amazon are not free marketplaces but privately owned, top-down algorithmic systems akin to a digital Soviet Gosplan.