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 week’s Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau engage in a deconstruction of multiple modern economic and geopolitical myths, from Mark Carney’s Davos speech to the shifting power dynamics between Europe and the United States. Was Carney’s much-lauded call for a new multilateral alliance actually a muddled and hypocritical attempt to revive a global order that has already ruptured? And was Europe’s “victory” over Trump with regard to Greenland actually delusional cheerleading, when the declining continent remains trapped by a deep dependency on American technology, the dollar, and security infrastructure? Watch it on the UnHerd website: unherd.com/watch-listen/the-davos-delusion-europes-fake-victory-over-trump/ 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 - 01:00 – Intro 01:00 - 01:59 – Today’s Topics 01:59 - 04:28 – Mark Carney’s Speech: Hypocrisies and Global Order 04:28 - 06:37 – Proposing a New Alliance & Doubts About US “Public Goods” 06:37 - 09:48 – EU Sovereignty, Integration, and Dependency on America 09:48 - 12:25 – Fiscal Priorities: Welfare vs. Investment 12:25 - 15:17 – Welfare Targeting, Job Market, and Tax Evasion 15:17 - 18:53 – Interest Rates, Inflation, and Economic Models Debate 18:52 - 21:58 – The Limits of Central Banks and the Role of Price Controls 21:58 - 26:41 – Debunking the “EU Victory” over Trump & Greenland 26:41 - 30:00 – Greenland, US Sovereignty, Historical Parallels, and Legacies 30:00 - 34:16 – EU Critique: Cheerleading vs. Constructive Policy Advice 34:16 - 35:00 – EU as Single Market and Wielding Geopolitical Power 35:26 - 39:28 – Dependency on US Dollar & The Need for Independent EU Systems 39:28 - 40:03 – Closing Thoughts #UnHerd #Greenland #MarkCarney