Yanis Varoufakis: Thoughts for the Post-2008 World

I concede that there are issues over which I would welcome the Italian President’s use of constitutional powers that (in my humble opinion) he should not have.(*)  One such issue is the outrageous policy of the Lega and the promise of its leader, Mr Salvini, to expel five hundred thousand migrants from Italy. Had President Mattarella refused Mr Salvini the post of Interior Minister, on the basis that he rejects...

[embedded content] Yanis Varoufakis – Happiness, Inc. – Think Again – a Big Think Podcast #149 Jason GOTS: As the Wu-Tang Clan once put it: “Cash moves everything around me… Get the money. Dollar dollar bill, y’all.” I grew up not wanting to believe this. All the stuff that seemed worth having was hard to put a price tag on. But under global capitalism, there’s a lot of hard, sad truth to...

Κάποτε βλέπαμε σκηνές όπως οι πρόσφατες από τη Γάζα και νιώθαμε αποτροπιασμό, θεωρώντας τους εαυτούς μας συμπάσχοντες με τους Παλαιστινίους. Σήμερα, έχουμε απολέσει το δικαίωμα σε αυτή την αθωότητα δεδομένου ότι οι κυβερνώντες μας, η δεύτερη κυβέρνηση του ΣΥΡΙΖΑ (που συνεχίζει απροκάλυπτα την πολιτική Σαμαρά και σε αυτό τον τομέα), έχουν καταστήσει την Ελλάδα συνέταιρο εκείνων που βρίσκονται από την άλλη μεριά...

[embedded content] Nomiki Konst (TYT Politics) interviews former Greek Finance Minister and Greek Member of Parliament Yanis Varoufakis. Get ‘Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism’ here: http://a.co/eXqqRNt

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[embedded content] On the day of this discussion/presentation, students and staff were occupying part of the New School as part  of a twin labour dispute: one regarding the cafeteria staff facing dismissal and partial re-employment under worse terns and a second dispute concerning low pay and lack of rights for student workers-TAs. It is in this context that I asked the New School’s...

[embedded content] Trump vs Europe: He’s threatening European banks and industries with sanctions. If they don’t cut off trade with Iran, they would be barred from American markets and transactions with American banks. We asked Yanis Varoufakis for his analysis—he’s the former finance minister of Greece who led the resistance to European Bankers demanding austerity—now he has co-founded...

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Nomiki Konst (TYT Politics) interviews former Greek Finance Minister and Greek Member of Parliament Yanis Varoufakis. Get 'Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism' here: http://a.co/eXqqRNt Like this interview? Enough that you want to throw a little Bitcoin our way? Great! Do it here: https://www.coinbase.com/TYT For more interviews, subscribe TYT Interviews: https://www.youtube.com/tytinterviews Friend Us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/tytinterviews...

"Keeping to the peg and trying to adjust to place the whole burden of the adjustment on fiscal accounts is what brought Southeast Asia down..." - Former Greek Min. of Finance Yanis Varoufakis comments on fiscal adjustment without devaluation. View the entire Barbados Economic Debate 2018 here: https://marladukharan.com/webcast/barbados-economic-debate-webinar/