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 the week when President Donald Trump vowed to implement a wave of increasing tariffs on European allies until the United States is allowed to buy Greenland, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau dissect the terminal decline of European sovereignty and the shifting pillars of the global economy. Is Europe unable to confront Trump due to its total reliance on American technology and defence? And while the U.S. and China embrace disruptive economic models to maintain their dominance, why does the EU choose to preserve a failing status quo rather than pursuing the radical political union necessary for survival? Watch it on the UnHerd website: unherd.com/watch-listen/trumps-greenland-threats/ Listen to the podcast: https://plnk.to/unherd?to=page Advertise on UnHerd @ zoe.white@unherd.com Follow UnHerd on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/unherd Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/unherd/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unherd/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@unherdtv //TIMECODES// 00:00 - 00:48 – Intro 00:48 - 01:49 – Today’s topics 01:49 - 05:59 – Trump’s tariffs, EU troops & US dependence 05:59 - 11:37 – NATO, Denmark & Greenland tensions 11:37 - 17:31 – Europe’s limits: federalism & the far right 17:31 - 19:34 – After Trump? Atlanticism & EU decline 19:34 - 25:37 – China I: three economic “myths” 25:37 - 29:58 – China II: subsidies, chokepoints & power 29:58 - 33:31 – US vs China: finance and demand tools 33:31 - 37:38 – Europe’s outdated model & lost dynamism 37:38 - 39:06 – Disruption, manufacturing and authoritarianism 39:06 - 39:48 – Outro #UnHerd #Greenland #China