About this episode

Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau discuss Keir Starmer's resignation and the corporate manipulation of European energy prices.

In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau dissect the fallout of Keir Starmer’s resignation to expose a broader Western leadership crisis, before debunking the myth of the free market to reveal the hidden corporate swindle rigging European electricity prices - a systemic failure that is not only driving up consumer bills but starving the continent of the energy capacity needed to compete with the US and China in the AI race. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Topics covered

• Western leadership crisis
• energy prices
• corporate swindle
• AI competition
• Keir Starmer
• European electricity

Keywords

• Keir Starmer
• energy prices
• corporate swindle
• AI race
• Western leadership
• Yanis Varoufakis
• Wolfgang Munchau

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