About this episode
Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau discuss the impact of Trump's tariffs on Germany and the UK's financial issues.
🔗Get your tickets for The Econoclasts Live with Hasan Piker here: http://unherd.com/econoclastslive In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau debunk the myth of European strategic sovereignty and the lie at the heart of the City of London, exposing how Germany’s failure to innovate within its declining car industry leaves it defenceless against Trump’s revenge tariff assault, while the UK’s ‘finance curse’ has replaced productive industrial investment with a parasitic reliance on property speculation and shareholder payouts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
People in this episode
Host: Yanis Varoufakis
Guest: Wolfgang Munchau
Topics covered
- European strategic sovereignty
- Trump tariffs
- UK finance curse
- Germany car industry
- property speculation
Keywords
- Trump
- tariffs
- Germany
- UK
- finance curse
- property speculation
- car industry
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: City of London
Places: Germany, UK
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