Posts By: Yanis Varoufakis

Greece was destined to burn

Opinion

26.07.2023

Did we invite this Promethean punishment?

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Austerity ruined Europe, and now it’s back

Opinion

21.07.2023

Europe is responding to the US investment boom with a return to the austerity policies that caused it to fall behind the US in the first place

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Why the EU has out-Trumped Trump

Opinion

18.07.2023

Europe has proved far more adept at building walls than the former US president was

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Our defeat in context: Greece’s Erdogan-isation is almost complete

Opinion

22.05.2023

MeRA25 seems to have suffered because we tried to inspire our base with hard-hitting truths rather than soothing false narratives

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Who’s afraid of Central Bank Digital Currencies?

Opinion

15.05.2023

Once upon a time, the greed of tobacco companies was channeled through libertarian outrage over the restriction of smokers’ freedom to choose ...

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The strange death of the liberal individual

Opinion

24.04.2023

Only a comprehensive reconfiguration of property rights can rescue the foundational liberal idea of liberty as self-ownership

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Let the banks burn

Opinion

30.03.2023

The banking system we take for granted is unfixable. The good news is that we no longer need to rely on any banks, at least not the way we have so far

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Yanis Varoufakis: Israelis are not good material for making slaves. But nor are Palestinians

Opinion

20.03.2023

The right to resist enslavement is not exclusive to any people

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Why did the Silicon Valley Bank go bankrupt and trigger a banking crisis? Are we back to 2008?

Opinion

16.03.2023

Every systemic banking crisis has a trigger that sets it off. In the case of SVB, the reason for its bankruptcy is twofold

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