Episodi

  • The fall of Macron & Europe’s cowardly Ukraine strategy

    The fall of Macron & Europe’s cowardly Ukraine strategy
    Oct 20 2026
    In this episode of The Econoclasts, 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, while revealing 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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    42 min
  • Trump’s Russian diesel deal & France’s fatal debt collapse

    Trump’s Russian diesel deal & France’s fatal debt collapse
    Oct 13 2026
    In 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 French fiscal incompetence to reveal why France’s €3.6 trillion debt crisis is a structurally inevitable flaw of the euro.

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    40 min
  • France’s fiscal crisis & Europe's dangerous war fever

    France’s fiscal crisis & Europe's dangerous war fever
    Oct 6 2026
    In 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 European austerity, and reveal 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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    48 min
  • Europe's pre-war madness & the reindustrialisation myth

    Europe's pre-war madness & the reindustrialisation myth
    Sep 29 2026
    In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau dissect the escalating geopolitical tensions between Western powers, Russia, and China, expose the dangerous anti-diplomacy bias within mainstream media and centrist political establishments that pushes Europe toward a pre-war posture, and debunk the political myth that military Keynesianism and factory-focused reindustrialisation can restore high-paying blue-collar jobs in an automated age.

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    39 min
  • Germany’s political meltdown & how the Left betrayed Europe

    Germany’s political meltdown & how the Left betrayed Europe
    Sep 22 2026
    In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau dissect the systemic breakdown of German centrist politics, reveal the uncomfortable truth about Europe’s total lack of defence sovereignty under US hegemony, and debunk the conventional political narrative by exposing how the centre-Left bears primary responsibility for the continent’s long-term deindustrialisation and geopolitical decline.

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    43 min
  • The AI extinction myth & Europe’s tech collapse

    The AI extinction myth & Europe’s tech collapse
    Sep 15 2026
    In 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, reveal how weaponised AI and China’s robotic lead threaten stability, and dissect Europe’s failure to retain sovereignty in an era of cloud capital.

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    45 min
  • Germany's AfD surge & the death of the European project

    Germany's AfD surge & the death of the European project
    Sep 8 2026
    In 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 myth of how Hitler came to power in order to draw alarming parallels to what is happening with the AfD today, and reveal why the European Union’s current structure is inherently incapable of preventing systemic decay and the rise of ethnonationalism.

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    45 min
  • Iceland's EU rejection & the North Atlantic debt trap

    Iceland's EU rejection & the North Atlantic debt trap
    Sep 1 2026

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    In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau dissect the fallout of Iceland’s historic referendum vote to reject European Union accession talks, reveal the widening cracks in the transatlantic financial consensus, and debate whether a European capital markets union can revive investment or simply feed a stagnant ‘rent trap.’

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    42 min