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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🔗 Click the following link to get tickets to 'The Econoclasts LIVE' in London on March 23rd: https://unherd.com/econoclastslive 📰 Subscribe to UnHerd today at: https://bit.ly/3Qdkd5y In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau pull back the curtain to reveal the shifting tectonic plates of the global economy, arguing that the world’s fixation on Donald Trump’s tariffs and Supreme Court rulings is a dangerous distraction from a much more profound transformation – namely a new form of power that allows Big Tech to hold the West to ransom, and an AI revolution that will permanently dismantle the foundations of human agency, private property, and the free market. Listen to the podcast: plinkhq.com/i/1685475850 Advertise on UnHerd @ zoe.white@unherd.com Follow UnHerd on social media: Twitter: https://x.com/Econoclasts Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/unherd/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unherd/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@unherdtv //TIMECODES// 00:00 - 00:51 – Intro 01:01 - 01:49 – Today’s Topics: AI and Trump’s tariffs 01:49 - 02:29 – Join us for Econoclasts live show 02:29 - 09:58 – Trump tariffs, dollar power, and Nixon Shock 09:58 - 15:18 – Tariff ruling as non‑event and Europe’s weakness 15:18 - 18:28 – Security dependence and trade‑war myths 18:28 - 24:13 – AI hype, ‘intelligence’ and misconceptions 24:13 - 31:01 – AI as destructive: markets and techno‑feudalism 31:01 - 34:08 – AI, markets and regulation 34:08 - 34:33 – Outro #UnHerd #AI #Tariffs