Econoclasts

The MAGA class war has quietly begun

20K views · 17h ago · 18:51

In the week of the midterms, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau dissect the structural forces rattling Western politics, arguing that U.S. elections are governed by state-level inequality rather than the myth of the swing voter, and expose how foreign conflict and price inflation have triggered an internal MAGA class war between working-class voters bleeding at the pump and donor elites feasting on windfall profits.

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The real AI jobs crisis isn't what you think

91K views · 6d ago · 21:52

Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau reveal alarming new data that exposes the looming threat of a silent AI-driven hiring freeze, permanently locking young workers out of the economy. Listen to the podcast

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Brazil is quietly breaking America’s financial grip

90K views · 1w ago · 20:37

Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau dissect the political fallouts in Brazil and Serbia to debunk the prevailing narrative that the rise of the Right is an inevitable force that can only be mitigated by centrist technocracy.

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Trump just triggered the Ukraine endgame

90K views · 1w ago · 16:56

Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau dissect the cowardice and hypocrisy of the EU’s current Ukraine strategy that they warn is steadily bankrupting Europe, deepening its geopolitical vassalage to the United States, and leaving the continent powerless to shape the inevitable outcome of the war.

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France is on the brink

54K views · 2w ago · 23:34

Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau dissect the catastrophic collapse of Emmanuel Macron’s ‘revolutionary centrist’ experiment in France, exposing how a decade of technocratic austerity and underinvestment has fuelled widespread social unrest and pushed the country to the brink of insolvency.

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France cannot save itself

474K views · 2w ago · 22:18

Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau debunk the myth of French fiscal incompetence to reveal why France’s €3.6 trillion debt crisis is a structurally inevitable flaw of the euro. Listen to the podcast

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The Ukraine war just changed

38K views · 3w ago · 16:29

Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau dissect the fracturing geopolitical landscape after Trump’s quiet Russian diesel arrangement, and expose how this unilateral energy deal effectively dismantles Europe’s unified strategy and leaves Western sanctions in ruin.

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Europe’s war fever is spiralling

72K views · 3w ago · 18:17

Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau dissect the dangerous escalation of 'war fever' across the continent, where hybrid-war narratives and NATO-Russia tensions threaten to drag an economically fragile, unprepared Europe into a devastating pre-1914 style conflict.

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France just lit the fuse on Europe

64K views · 4w ago · 27:05

Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau dissect the gathering financial and political storm in France and expose the self-defeating mechanics of European austerity. Listen to the podcast

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Europe’s next crisis is hiding in plain sight

58K views · 1mo ago · 18:19

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The US war with China just changed

36K views · 1mo ago · 20:18

Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau dissect the escalating geopolitical tensions between Western powers, Russia, and China, and expose the dangerous anti-diplomacy bias within mainstream media and centrist political establishments that pushes Europe toward a pre-war posture.

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The lie behind Europe's bank bailouts

29K views · 1mo ago · 23:33

Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau debunk the conventional political narrative by exposing how the centre-Left bears primary responsibility for the continent’s long-term deindustrialisation and geopolitical decline. Listen to the podcast

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Germany built an economy that can't survive

25K views · 1mo ago · 18:28

Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau dissect the systemic breakdown of German centrist politics and reveal the uncomfortable truth about Europe’s total lack of defence sovereignty under US hegemony. Listen to the podcast

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