Yanis Varoufakis: Thoughts for the Post-2008 World

A few weeks ago, Stefan Aust, Die Welt’s editor and formerly the heart and soul of Der Spiegel, paid me a visit at our Aegina house. We spoke for a good two hours on Europe, Germany, Greece and, of course, DiEM25. It was a serious, pleasant and at times passionate discussion. On 14th August the article-interview was published. For Die Welt’s site click here. (For the interview, as published, in pdf form click: Part 1 & Part 2) Alternatively… “Merkel hat keinen Plan” Von Stefan Aust...

The FT’s silly season Q&A edition had some questions for several of us. Here are my answers: How are you spending the summer? Like every summer: accumulating sensations that, when the depths of winter arrive, will allow me to, still, feel that — in Albert Camus’ wonderful words — “within me there lay an invincible summer”. Who would be your ideal travel companion (real or fictional, dead or alive)? Danae, my partner, for her astonishing capacity to belong in strange places. And the...

Our friends at GAIM caught up with @yanisvaroufakis after the show to ask whether democracy and alternative investment could work together. Watch the interview here and read the full transcript at GAIM Live http://gaimlive.com/yanis-varoufakis-nations-need-get-together-reboot-world-economy/

Interviewed by David de Jong, Bloomberg News [embedded content]

How the IMF and the EU screwed Greece: It’s Official (Title as it appeared on the ABC’s website) https://varoufakis.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/lnl_20160810_2220-vindicated-varoufakis.mp3

Athens daily Kathimerini published a letter signed by 23 ‘US-educated Greeks’ sent to the University of Texas’ President denouncing James K. Galbraith (a long-standing professor there) for having helped me design a “monetary cum military coup d’etat”.  At least that was their description of my Plan X – a preliminary contingency plan to counter the European Central Bank’s Plan Z with which Greece is being threatened continually since 2012 – see the Financial Times report here. Once more,...

Varoufakis postula que el empleado debe tener la opción real de decir que no para ser libre y tener capacidad de negociación. Esta falta de opciones ha llevado a una fuerte precarización y pérdida de beneficios.

We spoke to Yanis Varoufakis about what it would take to get the global economy back on track and restore investor confidence. As you might expect, he had a very original perspective, and the economics to back it up.

https://varoufakis.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/counterpunchradio1aug2016.mp3 This week Eric Draitsler sits down with economist, and former Greek finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis to discuss the shifts in the political landscape of both Europe and the US, and what they mean for political activism and progressive politics. Eric and Yanis discuss the nature of the EU and whether it can be reformed or democratized, as well as the forces at play within it. The conversation also touches on the...

ATHENS – Politics in the advanced economies of the West is in the throes of a political shakeup unseen since the 1930s. The Great Deflation now gripping both sides of the Atlantic is reviving political forces that had lain dormant since the end of World War II. Passion is returning to politics, but not in the manner many of us had hoped it would. The right has become animated by an anti-establishment fervor that was, until recently, the preserve of the left. In the United States, Donald...