About this episode

Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau discuss the misconceptions surrounding Brexit and the challenges facing Germany's industrial sector.

In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau debunk the popular orthodoxy surrounding Brexit, exposing the phoney statistics used to fabricate a narrative of British macroeconomic self-harm, while dissecting the existential reality of Germany's inevitable structural collapse through its automakers' loss of the critical AI and EV race to China. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Topics covered

• Brexit
• Germany's economy
• AI race
• electric vehicles
• macroeconomics
• industrial collapse

Keywords

• Brexit
• Germany
• macroeconomics
• AI
• electric vehicles
• industrial collapse
• Yanis Varoufakis
• Wolfgang Munchau

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