Posts By: Yanis Varoufakis

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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VIDEO: Yanis Varoufakis end of year message

29.12.2022

Yanis Varoufakis, DiEM25-co-founder, with a short look back at 2022 and a hopeful message of what should guide us in 2023.

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Yanis Varoufakis picks apart the corrupt European energy system

12.09.2022

Political leaders across Europe want to divert attention away from their own role in the energy crisis by focusing solely on Russia

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Time to blow up electricity markets

Opinion

31.08.2022

With the end of cheap natural gas, retail consumers and businesses are paying the price for their governments’ embrace of a shoddy theory.

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Macron and Le Pen: A growing co-dependence

Opinion

25.04.2022

The comfortable re-election of French president Emmanuel Macron against an opponent with whom he shares a mutual dislike almost obscures a ...

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