Yanis Varoufakis: Thoughts for the Post-2008 World

How might opposing schools of economic thought – from neoclassical and Keynesian to Libertarian and Marxist, view Christmas presents? Levity aside, the answer reveals the pompousness and vacuity of each and every economic theory. ATHENS – To welcome the New Year with a cheeky take on the clash of economic ideologies, how might opposing camps’ representatives view Christmas presents? Levity aside, the answer...

In an exclusive interview with WIRED, Yanis Varoufakis discusses Bitcoin’s bubble, the fantasy of apolitical money and the opportunities for the blockchain to reform Europe. By TOM UPCHURCH Saturday 23 December 2017 When I first met Yanis Varoufakis in the summer of 2014, he was a highly respected but relatively obscure economist. Back then, the price of one bitcoin fluctuated around $440. Fast-forward three...

LONDON — If Santa is listening, here’s a suggestion about what to deliver Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain and David Davis, her chief Brexit negotiator: a copy of Yanis Varoufakis’s “Adults in the Room.” Mr. Varoufakis is the former Greek finance minister and his book sets out in excruciating detail the story of the 2015 negotiations between Greece’s government and its creditors. It feels like necessary...

Yanis Varoufakis lays out plans on eradication of European race. Nov 2017

Οι αναλύσεις για τις πολιτικές εξελίξεις παγκοσμίως δίνουν και παίρνουν. Τα φαινόμενα Τραμπ, Brexit, Λεπέν, η κατάρρευση των παραδοσιακών κομμάτων στη Γαλλία, την Ιταλία, ακόμα και τη Γερμανία, αναλύονται και ξανα-αναλύονται με ολοένα πιο περίπλοκα επεξηγηματικά σχήματα. Είναι ως εάν να καταβάλλεται φιλότιμη προσπάθεια ώστε να μη μιλάμε για τον προφανή λόγο και το οφθαλμοφανές αίτιο της καθίζησης του πολιτικού...

DECLARATION We the undersigned, call for an immediate end to investments in new fossil fuel production and infrastructure, and encourage a dramatic increase in investments in renewable energy. We are issuing this call to action in the lead up to the climate summit hosted by President Macron in Paris this December. President Macron and other world leaders, have already spoken out about the need for an increase in...

ATHENS – The Anglosphere’s political atmosphere is thick with bourgeois outrage. In the United States, the so-called liberal establishment is convinced it was robbed by an insurgency of “deplorables” weaponized by Vladimir Putin’s hackers and Facebook’s sinister inner workings. In Britain, too, an incensed bourgeoisie are pinching themselves that support for leaving the European Union in favor of an inglorious...

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Democracy Reform in Europe November 2017

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