Yanis Varoufakis: Thoughts for the Post-2008 World

Isn’t it remarkable how establishment European politicians speak common sense once they have lost power and are about to begin their long slide into oblivion? Martin Schulz just copied that pattern with his passionate federalist speech and his pronouncement that “the EU cannot afford another four years of German European policy à la Wolfgang Schäuble”. Pity that when his party was in government, and had the...

[embedded content] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjKGQjyyk0E Στην βιβλιοπαρουσίαση του βιβλίου μου “Ανίκητοι Ηττημένοι” ο Βασίλης Βασιλικός είπε τα πιο κάτω λόγια.  Σε συνδυασμό με την, παράλληλη, ανακοίνωση του Κώστα Γαβρά (ότι εργάζεται πυρετωδώς για την μεταφορά του βιβλίου στην κινηματογραφική οθόνη), τα λόγια του Βασίλη Βασιλικού με αφήνουν βουβό και βαθειά υπόχρεο. Αγαπητοί φίλες και...

  Along with French economist Thomas Piketty, former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis is making economics sexy again. Journalists enjoyed snapping photos of Varoufakis, clad in a black leather coat, commuting to the finance ministry’s offices on his Yamaha motorcycle. But his short tenure in the Greek government was marked by clashes with the country’s creditors and ultimately with the leadership of...

On the occasion of the publication of ‘Talking To My Daughter about the Economy: A brief history of capitalism‘, the Sunday Times published this interview, in the context of their series ‘A Day in the Life of…’ Apologies for the lifestyle-like style and content… Interview by Gabriel Pogrund Best advice I was given A statistics professor told me: “Say what will happen or when it will happen. Never predict both...

Yanis Varoufakis on EU negotiations, Sam Leith on Brexit language  and Harry Mount andSophia Money-Coutts on the Glamocracy. Click here

[embedded content] [embedded content] David Dimbleby presents topical debate from Scarborough, with a panel including Conservative MP and prisons minister Sam Gyimah, Labour’s Chuka Umunna, Ukip’s new leader Henry Bolton, deputy editor of The Sunday Times, Sarah Baxter and the economist and Yanis Varoufakis, DiEM25 co-founder & former finance minister of Greece. For the whole program...

In diesem Video spricht Yanis Varoufakis, Gründer der Bewegung „Democracy in Europe Movement 2025“ (DiEM25) und ehemaliger Finanzminister Griechenlands über die universelle Dividende, sowie ihre Unterschiede zum Grundeinkommen, wie diese finanziert und ob die Arbeiterschicht dadurch belastet wird. Darüber hinaus thematisiert Varoufakis die Rolle der Technologie sowie Fragen darüber, wie und warum wir Konzerne sozialisieren sollten. FOLGEN SIE UNS ONLINE: Facebook:...

[embedded content] Yanis Varoufakis, co-founder of DiEM25, former Minister of Finance for Greece and high profile economist, academic and writer, addressed The Oxford Guild  on Tuesday 28th November in the Said Business School Amphitheatre. He discussed the state of the European Union, of the United Kingdom, the political landscape globally and the political/economic/social agenda of DiEM25...

DIEM24 is his love child. Genuine politics is a powerful art. The owner of that talent wields global outcomes. In my opinion, a reconfiguration of global wealth can be anticipated… it’s a given. And history will note that SYRIZA versus Varoufakis was its impetus.

Οταν «ανοίγεσαι» υποθηκεύοντας κάτι που έχει αξία για σένα, παίρνεις το ρίσκο να το χάσεις. Εκτός βέβαια αν είσαι… τράπεζα. Αντίθετα με τον κοινό πολίτη, οι πτωχευμένες τράπεζες διασώζονται με τα χρήματα των πολιτών, ενδυναμώνονται πολιτικά από αυτή την ανακεφαλαιοποίηση (κυρίως μέσα από τη χειραγώγηση της κοινής γνώμης, ελέω των ΜΜΕ και των πολιτικών δυνάμεων που ελέγχουν), και, στο τέλος, απαιτούν (και...