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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📰 Subscribe to UnHerd today at: https://bit.ly/3Qdkd5y Watch it on the UnHerd website: https://unherd.com/watch-listen/how-big-finance-corrupted-crypto/ Listen to the podcast: plinkhq.com/i/1685475850 Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau debunk the establishment consensus of the “battle” between the central banking establishment and the anti-establishment crypto rebels. They explore the fallacy of crypto and explain how its original democratic promise has been turned on its head and usurped by big finance to become its latest weapon for extracting rents. Are stablecoins just a new form of "subprime" bubble, and if so, does a financial crisis loom? Follow The Econoclasts 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 - 02:37 - The story of crypto so far 02:37 - 11:13 - The issue with stablecoins 11:13 - 24:09 - How central banks are breaking crypto #Econoclasts #Bitcoin #Crypto