The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts is a new podcast from UnHerd hosted by economist Yanis Varoufakis and journalist Wolfgang Munchau. While they don't always agree politically, they are united in one conviction: the consensus is rotten. Mainstream economics has consistently failed to predict the events that shape our world, yet this broken orthodoxy still dominates policy and media. Each week, they choose two pillars of the established orthodoxy — the "settled facts" — and shatter them, cutting through the spin to connect the dots between money, geopolitics, and the real forces shaping our future.


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Episoder(164)

The Starmer-Mandelson-Epstein scandal & Musk’s merger

The Starmer-Mandelson-Epstein scandal & Musk’s merger

In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau confront the false orthodoxies of finance and power, beginning with a deep dive into the “rigged” valuation of the SpaceX-xAI ...

11 Feb 36min

Why gold and silver crashed & Trump’s Fed Chair pick

Why gold and silver crashed & Trump’s Fed Chair pick

Following a historic price crash for gold and silver after President Trump picked Kevin Warsh to lead the Federal Reserve, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau dismantle the orthodoxies surrounding t...

4 Feb 33min

“This isn’t over”: Trump, Greenland & the Davos delusion

“This isn’t over”: Trump, Greenland & the Davos delusion

In this week’s Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau engage in a deconstruction of multiple modern economic and geopolitical myths, from Mark Carney’s Davos speech to the shifting power d...

28 Jan 38min

Europe’s fatal Greenland mistake & China’s real power

Europe’s fatal Greenland mistake & China’s real power

In the week when President Donald Trump vowed to implement a wave of increasing tariffs on European allies until the United States is allowed to buy Greenland, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau di...

21 Jan 38min

Trump’s war on the Fed & Bulgaria’s Euro disaster

Trump’s war on the Fed & Bulgaria’s Euro disaster

In the week when the Trump administration threatened criminal charges against Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau expose the high-stakes power struggle to disman...

14 Jan 37min

Venezuela special: Maduro, oil, and Trump’s next target

Venezuela special: Maduro, oil, and Trump’s next target

In today’s Venezuela special, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau expose the reality behind the abduction of Nicolás Maduro and the dawn of a ‘Donroe Doctrine’ that signals the end of international ...

7 Jan 31min

2025: The West’s annus horribilis

2025: The West’s annus horribilis

In this special year-end edition of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau dissect 2025 - a pivotal year and annus horribilis for the European Union in a world reshaped by a G2 power s...

31 Des 202525min

Q&A: Germany’s economic death trap & the truth about BRICS

Q&A: Germany’s economic death trap & the truth about BRICS

This week on a special Q&A edition of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau confront the uncomfortable truths of 2025. From the economic death trap currently paralysing German society...

24 Des 202537min

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