Economic Update: Varoufakis Critique of Capitalism Today

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  • Опубліковано 10 тра 2023
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    [EU S13 E18] Varoufakis Critique of Capitalism Today
    Yanis Varoufakis, elected member of the Greek parliament, joins the program and offers his original, critical perspectives on (1) the banking crisis, (2) the decline of the US empire and US capitalism, (3) the mass uprisings of the French and Greek working classes in Europe, (4) the collapse of Europe's efforts to shape an independent (from the US and China) economic position, and (5) class struggle inside China.
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  • @flutieflambert
    @flutieflambert Рік тому +24

    I’m a secretary at a corporate law firm and if it wasn’t for you 2 gentlemen (and the solidarity of a couple of secretaries at my work) I think I would go mad. I mean that literally. My job is taking a serious toll on my mental health because when our bosses treat us like crap the only option we have is to go to another corporation most of which are far worse. Power to the people! 🙏🏽❤️

    • @TheRantingRooster
      @TheRantingRooster Рік тому +1

      Are there signs anywhere in or around your office that indicate a video/audio recording device maybe in operation? Like CCTV security camera's , etc... If so, you can set your audio recoding app on your cell to record interaction at work. I ask about the signs because if there are signs, then anyone around gives their implicit / explicit permission to be recorded. That recording can be used as evidence in court. Use the law your advantage, to put those fuckers in their place! Obviously review the law(s) in your state / local city, but use the law for you.

    • @westernciviccapital3075
      @westernciviccapital3075 Рік тому

      All money is a lie. Try not to slave. American Yellow Vests. Backwards: eb tod VYA
      👍

    • @flutieflambert
      @flutieflambert Рік тому +1

      @@TheRantingRooster That is a brilliant strategy! But unfortunately and fortunately they don’t record us as far as I know. Although they do make it abundantly clear that we have no right to privacy in any communications at work, including email. I can’t say what firm it is (out of fear of retaliation) but they are experts at union busting and we’re all too afraid to unionize. The HR and management frequently tell us that we can speak to them “in confidence” and nobody in their right mind believes them. The other day we had a staff meeting where they told us they were decreasing the one day/week of remote work for secretaries (while they don’t enforce this at all for management who rarely show up to work) so I commented that nobody wants to come to work because everyone is treated like crap. So management asked me to name names! “Who treated you like poorly?” they asked. So I responded, no! I’m not naming names nor is any other secretary because nobody is stupid enough to put that bullseye on their back (all the secretaries smiled and nodded), but I told them, we all know who the culprits are because they treat all their subordinates like crap, including you! Everyone in the room, including management, knew I was right. Then management asked me (fearfully) if I was afraid of retaliation. I avoided answering that question and just reiterated that if they really wanted to make the office a better place, they didn’t need me to rat on anyone. Of course they won’t hold the culprits responsible because those culprits bring millions of dollars into the firm. They’d sooner fire any secretary that complained of abuse, and they have! And when they do, they say the secretary was in subordinate. Of course they were! Abolition was insubordination!
      [Edited: management can’t bring millions of dollars into the firm without us secretaries, and their money and power is stolen from us. And if we secretaries had enough money to leave, management wouldnt make any money which is why they are so afraid of us.]

  • @miajinggoh1117
    @miajinggoh1117 Рік тому +45

    Dr Yanis Varoufakis is a world-class economist with grounded economic doctrines seasoned with practice through pragmatism in political office. Your influence in real-life economics is larger than some Nobel laureates for economics. May God bless your sphere according to your good work.

  • @MrPatrickslovell
    @MrPatrickslovell Рік тому +143

    Yanis is one of the most important voices on the planet. His detailed insights demand widespread understanding. Absolutely brilliant.

    • @eliascommentonly4652
      @eliascommentonly4652 Рік тому

      🇪🇺🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷AThens🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷✝️✝️1982✝️🙏👋
      Capitalism
      Or
      Gulag
      We defeated communists in 1949
      As spanish in their civil war
      Amen.
      ✝️✝️🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

    • @julianmartin7502
      @julianmartin7502 Рік тому

      Uff.... you surely know a lot of people and languages hey?

    • @biff408
      @biff408 Рік тому +2

      he speaks well, but when it comes to doing, he's a failure.

    • @edwardjones2202
      @edwardjones2202 Рік тому

      Agree!

    • @CosmoJ
      @CosmoJ Рік тому +4

      @@biff408 he became a minister for 6months ...wanted to fight but the president didnt...who's failing at doing him or the president at the time..lol

  • @pdoyle17
    @pdoyle17 Рік тому +57

    I absolutely adore you and Yanis, what a great unexpected return from the hiatus. 🙌

  • @Marxist2
    @Marxist2 Рік тому +58

    Glad you had Yanis on your show & I agree 100% with his words:: "Let the banking system burn."

  • @andyjblosser
    @andyjblosser Рік тому +194

    Please, more and longer conversations between these two brilliant thinkers. They are geniuses. Please, we want more Richard and Yanis!

    • @jorgeabraham3414
      @jorgeabraham3414 Рік тому +5

      30 mins of these men talking is so damn unfair =(

    • @pauladams1829
      @pauladams1829 Рік тому +1

      Yes

    • @jgalt308
      @jgalt308 Рік тому +1

      So you want more B.S.????

    • @andyjblosser
      @andyjblosser Рік тому +4

      @@jgalt308 Is this the legendary John Galt? I discovered who you were while reading all the way through Atlas Shrugged years ago. I was less than impressed :)

    • @jgalt308
      @jgalt308 Рік тому

      @@andyjblosser And I am less than impressed also... the J is just a J...
      it is not short for anything.
      Have you read 1984? Were you impressed?
      How about Brave New World?
      Walden Two?
      You do know what fiction is? Or science fiction?
      Still...I am willing to entertain whatever objections you have to "Altas Shrugged"
      as "science fiction"...or any of the "other" titles mentioned above.

  • @UntilChill
    @UntilChill Рік тому +107

    Yanis and Richard?! Two of the best at analyzing and critiquing the capitalist world order🥳

    • @jgalt308
      @jgalt308 Рік тому +1

      Shame it's not capitalism...but since you weren't paying attention
      you didn't hear the word "rentier" or who used it.

    • @gallectee6032
      @gallectee6032 Рік тому +7

      @@jgalt308 "Capitalism and competition are opposites. Capitalism is premised on the accumulation of capital, but under perfect competition, all profits get competed away. The lesson for entrepreneurs is clear. Competition is for losers".
      This quote comes from tech oligarch Peter Thiel.
      It should also make it easy to understand why neoliberalism has been such a failure. And why this will not be fixed from above. Because those are the very same people with all the power who have the complete opposite incentives to yours.
      And why right wing movements cannot fix it either (what could possibly do that. Libertarianism that is even more neoliberal and oligarchic? Or conservatism which follows the same premise?).

    • @jgalt308
      @jgalt308 Рік тому

      @@gallectee6032 Well since it's not capitalism, quoting Peter Thiel
      doesn't make it so.
      What is capital?
      Money is a commodity...people seeking to acquire money are capitalists as money is capital.
      Das Kapital v1 p27, p63, p 104-107
      But you no longer have money, so now what is capital? And capital
      has always been more than just money...which as a commodity, simply
      acts as a convertible asset, to facilitate production, as a medium of exchange
      that holds value, until it is converted to production, which is another form
      of commodity asset.
      If competition is for losers, why is he competing...and what is the nature
      of the competition, he is engaged in? Life is competition...and always has been,
      so making such a statement is a denial of reality...and is certainly not
      one that can be considered the product of intelligent reasoning. One might
      wish it were not so, one might also wish to minimize it or eliminate it...but
      if the effort required to achieve that goal exceeds that required to compete,
      then the energy expended is wasted, and nothing is gained by the result.
      Such claims also run counter to the evidence...even when their supposed
      examples seem to suggest otherwise...as in the case of the robber barons,
      a period that resulted in the U.S. surpassing Great Britain as the worlds most
      productive economy by 1880, and prices fell dramatically for the
      products made available by these "robbers".
      The reality here directly contradicts the "myth" regarding this period, as
      well as the claim that "employers raise prices because they can"...
      because if that were true, and those that dominated the various industries
      they had control of certainly could, why didn't they?
      Of course, if one is ignorant of the factual history...then maintaining the "myth"
      is useful for those selling it...and there are all manner of "myths" that persist
      at present, all serving those that create them...while doing nothing for
      those who believe them.
      Also in the above interview, Yanus acknowledged the "rentier" economy...
      which now dominates the present...but this preceded "capitalism" and
      is NOT capitalism...for that involves "production"...and regardless of who
      owns or controls it...PRODUCTION is key.
      Rent seekers do not produce, and governments do not produce...both rely
      on those who can and do...and there is nothing new involved, this is
      history. So, capitalism is not the problem...with the private ownership of
      the means of production providing the most incentive. It's not
      a difficult concept to grasp, and one is free to argue against private
      ownership...but those arguments fail rather quickly.
      Given that...one has little choice but to alter the understanding
      of what capitalism is...which is all that is being done here...in
      a country that is no longer capitalistic.

    • @gallectee6032
      @gallectee6032 Рік тому +4

      @@jgalt308 I have many things to say but cannot be bothered. Your definition of capitalism is never going to happen because the actual incentives oppose. I assume you are anti government, so how are you ever going to change these incentives to create this idealistic version of capitalism?

    • @jgalt308
      @jgalt308 Рік тому

      @@gallectee6032 No doubt you have many things to say...most people do.
      Without evidence to support what you say, they are as meaningless as
      if you hadn't bothered unless someone is foolish enough to believe you.
      Then you have a myth you can sell...like Wolff, but he isn't very good at it
      ...but good enough to "have the time of his life". Michael Hudson on
      the other hand doesn't seem to be having any problems at all.
      You do know what a "rentier" economy is? and that it preceded capitalism?
      And why did the prices of what the robber barons produce fall?
      As for the kind of "government" needed...that was achieved by the constitution
      in 1789 and 1791. Unfortunately, that was undermined and corrupted over time...
      and completely discarded in 1939, while money had been dumped 6 years
      earlier. So now you have an unconstitutional, criminal government...engaged
      in promising things it continually fails to deliver, robbing the future to
      maintain power in the present...and re-writing the past to maintain its
      criminal enterprise and divide its victims into factions competing for
      its favor, rather than seeking the freedom to pursue their own desires on
      their own merit.
      So I guess you will now have even more things to say but can't be bothered...
      employing words that have no definitive meaning, and continuing to make claims
      that have no evidence to support them if you did bother.

  • @Tchild2
    @Tchild2 Рік тому +95

    Yanis always brings his A game. Brilliant interview and insight on the part of Yanis Varoufakis.

    • @mabaker
      @mabaker Рік тому

      And yet he doesn't want Ukraine to win. Curious how hard it is to support the country that got invaded just because you have an ideological bone to chew.

    • @jgalt308
      @jgalt308 Рік тому +1

      He ain't in the game...

    • @eliascommentonly4652
      @eliascommentonly4652 Рік тому

      🇪🇺🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷AThens🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷✝️✝️1982✝️🙏👋
      Capitalism
      Or
      Gulag
      We defeated communists in 1949
      As spanish in their civil war
      Amen
      ✝️✝️🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏.

    • @Tchild2
      @Tchild2 Рік тому +1

      @@jgalt308 He is more in the game than you are.

    • @blobtv7444
      @blobtv7444 11 місяців тому

      @@jgalt308 💯, these guys sit on social media and talk

  • @podzycie3567
    @podzycie3567 Рік тому +57

    I appreciate Yanis for being able to apply a Marxist influenced analysis of capital without being dogmatically obsessed with old school Marxist takes. Refreshing to see someone willing to update and shift their thinking in this space. A payment system run by central banks is definitely going to rankle some of our more libertarian comrades though 🧐

    • @gmac8586
      @gmac8586 Рік тому

      ...problem is tho the central banks MUST be nationalized first or we've just given control to the biggest private bank ever. Central banks are still PRIVATE banks. How Marxist is that?

    • @charlenek11
      @charlenek11 Рік тому +1

      A central bank digital currency would be useful if we could trust the banks to not be controlled by the politicians and cut people off from money when they do things with that money that it's the politicians don't like. The fundamental danger is that your ability to feed yourself will always be subject to the banks not cutting off access, like what they did to people who donated to the Canadian truckers.

    • @podzycie3567
      @podzycie3567 Рік тому +2

      @@charlenek11 as a rebuttable presumption, I don’t believe any institution of that size and power can ever be trusted not to abuse its power. They may still be necessary on some level, but if our proposed reforms require banks and bankers who are above reproach we may need to go back to the drawing board on that one 😅

    • @KingslayerSrb
      @KingslayerSrb Рік тому

      @@charlenek11 at least politicians - in the western world - can mostly be overthrown peacefully, we have now multiple generations and a couple of centuries of evidence of this. On the other hand, there is no peaceful overthrow of private bankers. So with that in mind, I'd much prefer even a corrupt central bank that can be replaced and influenced by common people in time, than private bankers who answer to no one except their own wallets

    • @charlenek11
      @charlenek11 11 місяців тому

      @@podzycie3567 that absolutely makes the case for a decentralized system and against Central Bank digital currencies.

  • @1LaOriental
    @1LaOriental Рік тому +41

    Please have Yanis on again very soon!!!

    • @nmavrantzas
      @nmavrantzas Рік тому

      I guess anything that keeps him away from the country his laws ravaged is a good thing for us Greeks.

    • @Dinofaustivoro
      @Dinofaustivoro Рік тому

      ​@@nmavrantzas google IMF

    • @Jkjoannaki
      @Jkjoannaki 8 місяців тому

      ​@@nmavrantzasσου αξίζει ο κουλης σου

    • @nmavrantzas
      @nmavrantzas 8 місяців тому

      @@Jkjoannaki Ρούφα Μπαρουφάκη μ'ένα Ν αλλά έξω από τη Βουλή.

  • @peternyc
    @peternyc Рік тому +26

    yanis' point at the end about China's capitalists not wanting the dollar hegemony to collapse is a huge topic. Fantastic video, Prof. Wolff!

    • @agoodchow
      @agoodchow Рік тому +3

      Yes I am surprised of Yanis knowledge of China and Asia as it seems Yanis might not have visited China very often.

  • @need-to-know-
    @need-to-know- Рік тому +15

    Welcome back. I missed you Monday and got worried. Now I’m better.

  • @WorldCitizen333
    @WorldCitizen333 Рік тому +12

    Very welcome exchange between two respectable economists.

  • @toddstevens8506
    @toddstevens8506 Рік тому +22

    Great discussion, very refreshing compared to the usual tidal wave of propaganda we consume.

  • @johleby8048
    @johleby8048 Рік тому +23

    Thanks to two of my favorite economists. I learned so much from you.
    🙏❤️🙏

  • @ocean1233
    @ocean1233 Рік тому +13

    ABSOLUTELY 💯

  • @alexhidel3732
    @alexhidel3732 Рік тому +51

    At age 51, to me, from my life experiences capitalism, consumerism, materialism, greed makes me sick 🤮, its disgusting, it destroys our very short life experience here on earth 🌎. Too bad people love money and things, instead of people and animals 🐕 🐄 🐥

    • @dr.zoidberg8666
      @dr.zoidberg8666 Рік тому +4

      I don't even think your last sentence is true. Look at how people behave --& not just famous people but humanity as a whole.
      I would go so far as to say the vast majority of people on Earth agree with you. MOST people do not pursue wealth at all costs. Most people don't have an insatiable hunger for more, look at all the studies that have shown a declining "happiness" after a certain amount of income. Most people simply want to have enough that they don't have to worry about money anymore.
      But that vast majority of humanity do not get to decide the course our species goes down under our system of capitalism & bourgeois governance. It is the most pathological, most destructive people alive who our system rewards with power & authority.

    • @pierren___
      @pierren___ Рік тому

      Its not about what we want - its about what we need. Money is the conversion of work into value.

    • @TennesseeJed
      @TennesseeJed Рік тому +4

      We are krill for the Wall Street whales.

    • @kp6215
      @kp6215 Рік тому +4

      I am 72 love Yanis

    • @TennesseeJed
      @TennesseeJed Рік тому +7

      @@kp6215 I am 59 and my opinion has evolved from the "American Dream" to Marxist.

  • @Roeplala
    @Roeplala Рік тому +22

    Thank you, prof. Wolff for finally acknowledging the possibilty of giving the people money in stead of the banks. I know you find this a particularly hard pill to swollow but I really do believe it will give us so much room to stop doing the things we know are harmful to the earth and start working on the stuff that will lift us up.

  • @everettholland3309
    @everettholland3309 Рік тому +13

    I think you both are exceptional human beings because listening and reading you both have taught me that ignorance is not bliss but extremely dangerous and consequently has disabused me of mine.

  • @GeorgeKopelas
    @GeorgeKopelas Рік тому +24

    It is always necessary and useful to know and tell the truth about what is going on in the world today. Congratulations!

  • @michaelyao9389
    @michaelyao9389 Рік тому +13

    да!❤Two of my favourites, in Chinese , we call this: my two favourite chefs cooking together~!

  • @gobeyondaj
    @gobeyondaj Рік тому +12

    Glad you're back Prof Wolff!! Great guest too.

  • @sufferingsuccatash7720
    @sufferingsuccatash7720 Рік тому +39

    Alright Richard, keep it coming. The more discussion and presentations the better. A banking crisis is coming on with a debt deflation whammy on top of it. That will be our chance to sort things out.

  • @User-nw37
    @User-nw37 Рік тому +11

    Much respect for the both of you.

  • @gingerkilkus
    @gingerkilkus Рік тому +143

    First SVB, then signature bank and now first republic bank, these are all the signs of yet another 2008 market crash 2.0 , so my question is do I still save in the United States dollar or is this a good time to buy gold?

    • @fadhshf
      @fadhshf Рік тому +4

      It’s always a good option to keep some gold. Well with the current market situation and everything at stake with the present economy, I’d say you’re better off staying away from stocks fr awhile or better still reach out to an adviser for guidance.

    • @lowcostfresh2266
      @lowcostfresh2266 Рік тому +4

      true, a lot of folks downplay the role of advisors until being burnt by their own emotions. I remember couple summers back, after my lengthy divorce, I needed a good boost to help my business stay afloat, hence I researched for license advisors and came across someone of due diligence, helped a lot to grow my reserve notwithstanding inflation, from $275k to approx. $850k so far.

    • @TomD226
      @TomD226 Рік тому +4

      @@lowcostfresh2266 I’m in dire need of guidance so i can salvage my portfolio due to the massive dips and come up with better strategies. How can I reach this advisor?

    • @lowcostfresh2266
      @lowcostfresh2266 Рік тому +4

      @@TomD226 Having a counselor is essential for portfolio diversification. My advisor is Laurel Dell Sroufe who is easily searchable and has extensive knowledge of the financial markets.

    • @pseudonayme7717
      @pseudonayme7717 Рік тому +3

      Found the bot thread☝

  • @maxsweetman6341
    @maxsweetman6341 Рік тому +6

    Thanks Two gentlemen I admire
    If only world leaders would listen to them

  • @michaelscott1060
    @michaelscott1060 Рік тому +11

    Great discussion and viva La France, they are showing us all the way forward ❤

  • @GurmitBSingh
    @GurmitBSingh Рік тому +6

    No. one show OF FUTURE OF WORLD IN DETAIL AND FACTS
    CONGRATULATIONS TO BOTH OF YOU HONEST PROFESSIONALS!

  • @AceFromGorillaz
    @AceFromGorillaz Рік тому +6

    Im happy you have yanis on, he is a great economist and a very rare breed of politicians. The Greek political establishment is focused on spreading endless propaganda against him. It's not a coincidence that Greeks have no idea how respected yanis is abroad. Soon I will have the opportunity to vote for yanis himself in the Greek election

  • @tekannon7803
    @tekannon7803 Рік тому +5

    Professor Wolff and Yanis Varoufakis, you are two economists who make sense of what is going on in the world of economics and I am grateful that you are trying to find the key, pull the level, turn the dial that makes capitalism work for everyone and not only for the upper crust. I am an artist and not an economist, but I have quoted both of you in my book ‘The Treatise of Teknomix’ in which both of you helped inspire me to come up with an admittedly utopic if not unrealistic alternative economic model to replace capitalism on a global scale. In my book my idea for a better way to distribute wealth was for money not to equal power and it would only work with a world government. Obviously, it has got me invited to a single talk show yet and from the look of things, it probably won't as it has sold poorly. Aside from that, I am happy at least to have tried to come up with something to get the world on another trajectory for a global economic system. Moreover, I am hoping experts like you could find a seed of an idea to use as a possible foundation block to build a better, more inclusive economic model. As a lay person, I have a basic understanding of economics. Capitalism, which I called feudalism on steroids---someone said that somewhere and I used it in the book----is for me a complex and unfair system that cannot solve one of mankind’s most stubborn perennial problems: poverty. This to me is a red flag. During the pandemic, the ten top richest people in the world saw their fortunes double and again for me, this is yet another red flag. Economics has been called a lot of things, like dismal science, but perhaps it should be referred to as The Equality Science? To wrap things up, both of you are world renown economists who do your best to shine a light in the dark corners of a world where money has ruled like a king. It is my belief we cannot continue to have only part of the human community having a piece of the pie. To recap: from listening to you Rick and Yanis and from tuning in too many of your colleagues, I believe that capitalism and money and the finance industry and everything connected to it has to scale down to become something different than what capitalism has made the world of today into. It makes no sense to me to have an economic system that does not serve everyone's basic needs equally.

  • @kp6215
    @kp6215 Рік тому +7

    No R & D from '50's to make new industry but dollar payment system. Yanis my hero since before 2000.

  • @ocean1233
    @ocean1233 Рік тому +10

    Much appreciated ‼️‼️📢

  • @HiPlainsThrifter
    @HiPlainsThrifter Рік тому +8

    Two awesome people. Thank you!

  • @mauriziomoretti5392
    @mauriziomoretti5392 Рік тому +11

    Two giants of Economics. I strongly recommend Yannis’ “Another Now” book, where he goes in details (using a fiction to depict it) explaining how an alternative socialist, still using free (actually free) markets could function… today

  • @occupyscience-9479
    @occupyscience-9479 Рік тому +8

    Thank you Richard Wolff for this presentation. Let me express some views on the matter discussed. Capitalism is a system which in principle leads to the concentration of economic power. This power, reforms into monopolies, which lead to the amendment of the free market principle. Thus, the big, allow marginal enterprises, and keep the lion's share. When needed, this transforms to political, geopolitical, military, imperialistic, fascist states. The world order after WWII was created by the merged elites of GB, and USA. Yet, as time and technology evolves, this established system becomes the more catastrophic. To nature, to the working class, to the humanity as a whole. It is time to change the system. We do not need more and more analyses as to who, how, and when these changes to capitalism happen. What is necessary is to create unity in peoples movements. A unity that has to forge two priorities: the need for change and the understanding of reality. The climate crisis and AI will very soon impose fascism just because the people are deluded and out of touch with reality. We have already entered the dark ages (by 9/11/2001). I paraphrase the old saying to people of all nations unite!

  • @phylwx
    @phylwx Рік тому +5

    Now, this is what I call a treat! Thanks!

  • @storm7617
    @storm7617 9 місяців тому +1

    Thank you Dr.Wolff for this interview. I've been gobbling videos with Yanis since. I intend to read his books as well. A very lucid thinker!

  • @YusifRefae
    @YusifRefae Рік тому +7

    5 min into it and i already know it's going to be a magnificent episode!

  • @cheri238
    @cheri238 Рік тому +3

    Thank upu both , Professor Wolff, and Yanis Varoufakis.

  • @shainfarah3433
    @shainfarah3433 Рік тому +16

    Yannis. I just love you because what you stand for. march forward comrade.

  • @note10plus-dv5tn
    @note10plus-dv5tn Рік тому +11

    Bright minds helping general public to understand the reality of capitalism and current state of affairs.. kudos to you both!

  • @Alberto-or7js
    @Alberto-or7js Рік тому +4

    My only critique of this interview is that it’s not long enough. Please have Yanis on again!

  • @Roy-lm4rc
    @Roy-lm4rc Рік тому +6

    Thank you so much for your insight and precious contents !!!

  • @joesiklosi5000
    @joesiklosi5000 Рік тому +6

    Thanks for sharing this interesting program. It was very informative!

  • @odradekk
    @odradekk Рік тому +7

    Thank you professor Wolf !

  • @BL-db6xt
    @BL-db6xt Рік тому +2

    Great to heed 2 great minds talk.
    Salute to you 2. Thanks

  • @Athanael777
    @Athanael777 Рік тому +31

    Holy Molly, 2 of my favorites economists toguether 🤩
    Yanis made me fall in love with economics, amazing mind.

  • @petrosstefanidis6396
    @petrosstefanidis6396 Рік тому +7

    Great interview ❤️‍🔥

  • @standinginthegap7118
    @standinginthegap7118 Рік тому +5

    Democracy realistic Disobedience......love it.

  • @yarajamal1782
    @yarajamal1782 Рік тому +7

    Awesome information!

  • @antonio667
    @antonio667 Рік тому +10

    Great mind, the idea, the action with superb intellectual activities...Interesting🤗♥️🇬🇷!

  • @grizzlymartin1
    @grizzlymartin1 Рік тому +8

    ❤ Yanis needs to elaborate on that last point more. A lot more.

  • @bahtalorom
    @bahtalorom Рік тому +7

    Great as always.

  • @marcpuricelli
    @marcpuricelli Рік тому +3

    Yanis's answer to the last question is super interesting. Fascinating as always

  • @7hx89
    @7hx89 7 місяців тому

    Two greatest thinkers of our time in one program. Thank you professor.

  • @randyterpstra5928
    @randyterpstra5928 Рік тому +3

    i was wondering when we'd get a new Economic Update, Thank you!

  • @ocean1233
    @ocean1233 Рік тому +4

    Thank you

  • @denisemorton56
    @denisemorton56 Рік тому +3

    Excellent discussion. More please and thank you both

  • @truthaboveall7988
    @truthaboveall7988 Рік тому +11

    Great show as always- to remind ur viewers - we need to share this everywhere & w our families & friends who r in despair & don’t know there is another way

  • @jonathantrautman
    @jonathantrautman Рік тому +2

    Thanks Prof WOlff and Yanis!

  • @cliffordmaxwell9802
    @cliffordmaxwell9802 Рік тому +5

    Spot on guys!

  • @hannahlouisefitzpatrick6742
    @hannahlouisefitzpatrick6742 Рік тому +1

    I've been following both of you for years, thank-you so much for this informative conversation.

  • @yjjoseph
    @yjjoseph Рік тому +5

    What an insightful visionary!

    • @jgalt308
      @jgalt308 Рік тому

      Are hallucinations visionary?

  • @JannyLuits
    @JannyLuits 11 місяців тому +84

    Nobody can suddenly become prosperous financially. Although they did the background work, we mostly see the ultimate product. Fear is a harmful factor that prevents us from making the courageous decisions we need to make in order to achieve our goals. You have to deal with things like inflation, the recession, Fed policies, and more. In just a few months, I was able to add $289k to my portfolio. You must look for assistance in the appropriate locations.

    • @carssimplified2195
      @carssimplified2195 11 місяців тому +1

      I think it's not always about fear, Sometimes realistic factors discourage people from reaching their goals in life. For instance, I've tried investing in the stock market several times but always got discouraged by fluctuations of stock value

    • @sassy0010
      @sassy0010 8 місяців тому

      @RobertCooper03 But you had money to begin with, which is usually the missing factor in investing anyway. Idc how good your advisors are, if you don't have the initial resources, you're not going to be prosperous.

  • @paulkillinger5915
    @paulkillinger5915 7 місяців тому

    These are two exceptionally gifted economists, no doubt about it!

  • @thechin5523
    @thechin5523 Рік тому +3

    Always love hearing Yanis

  • @kngharv
    @kngharv Рік тому +4

    This is soooooo awesome!

  • @mrduuud
    @mrduuud Рік тому +1

    I respect you guys for keeping abreast on the details of these trends. We can all feel it's happening but it's another thing to be able to deeply understand and to articulate the technicalities of it

  • @montekitchens
    @montekitchens Рік тому +2

    Wonderful conversation! Thank you

  • @jessegreywolf
    @jessegreywolf Рік тому +5

    Interesting and thughtful conversation. Thank you for bringing this to us Dr Wolff

  • @rogersmith7396
    @rogersmith7396 Рік тому +17

    Yanis is on a whole nother level. For my money the only guy on the planet who knows whats going on.

    • @PetaloudesTouYialou
      @PetaloudesTouYialou Рік тому +4

      And can also explain it all, Prof W notwithstanding.

    • @YouLoveMrFriendly
      @YouLoveMrFriendly Рік тому +2

      Notice the lack of a detailed blueprint for the replacement of Capitalism....

    • @tZydeco
      @tZydeco Рік тому +5

      ​@@YouLoveMrFriendly - yes, a detailed map should be presented in excruciating detail in a 28 minute video. Like Hollywood movie and shit.

    • @jeffc9870
      @jeffc9870 Рік тому +1

      @@tZydeco I'm with Mr. Friendly; I never see anything presented to replace Capitalism, ever. It's always critiques meant to get people angr-y

    • @dsff6288
      @dsff6288 Рік тому +3

      @@jeffc9870 read his books

  • @markm3869
    @markm3869 Рік тому

    Fantastic, informational educational presentation. Thank you both the host and the guest for providing such a wonderful easy to comprehend insights into these interesting issues.

  • @Arboryas
    @Arboryas Рік тому +7

    Thank you for your efforts your work and your interviews

  • @paulschumacher1263
    @paulschumacher1263 Рік тому +2

    Fabulous! More Yanis.

  • @Roy-lm4rc
    @Roy-lm4rc Рік тому +2

    Thanks!

  • @loneranger4469
    @loneranger4469 Рік тому +2

    Brilliant conversation.

  • @domenicolaudando8866
    @domenicolaudando8866 Рік тому +2

    I never knew Voldemort was such a good one on socio/economic themes.

  • @blet.333
    @blet.333 Рік тому +1

    love this combo, can't wait to watch

  • @danatompkins4385
    @danatompkins4385 Рік тому

    That was wonderful. Thank you both!

  • @stephen_pfrimmer
    @stephen_pfrimmer Рік тому +2

    Thank you Dr Wolff.

  • @user-wp8yx
    @user-wp8yx Рік тому

    Wow that was a great interview!

  • @Camcolito
    @Camcolito Рік тому +5

    Having Yanis on ALMOST makes up for Harpy Barbie.

  • @marlbankian
    @marlbankian Рік тому +2

    Excellent food for thought

  • @charlenek11
    @charlenek11 Рік тому +1

    Love Varoufakis. Please, more of him!

  • @cesarcalderonvalles
    @cesarcalderonvalles Рік тому +2

    Great Talk

  • @mrloc555
    @mrloc555 9 місяців тому

    Fascinating as always; Please continue with your brilliant commentaries and opinions thank you so much!!!😊

  • @lpabeck
    @lpabeck Рік тому +3

    LOVE YANIS, good video. Thanks.

  • @tomasgunka1691
    @tomasgunka1691 Рік тому

    Very important discussion, thanks to you both!

  • @pauladams1829
    @pauladams1829 Рік тому

    Love to see more...❤

  • @Mike-B.
    @Mike-B. Рік тому +1

    Great guest!!

  • @mourdebars
    @mourdebars Рік тому +1

    Last part, most revealing!

  • @brianwheeldon4643
    @brianwheeldon4643 Рік тому +1

    Great, thanks.

  • @joethestack3894
    @joethestack3894 Рік тому +5

    We demand a price rollback/freeze to pre-pandemic prices!
    Personally I think the severe inflation we are currently experiencing in California is caused by the corporations that sell everything, but is it not possible that the inflation is the inevitable result of all the "quantitative easing" since 2009?

    • @gmac8586
      @gmac8586 Рік тому

      Yes, thank you for opening your eyes. The Fed is a private bank and they caused this inflation with money printing. Giving any power to them is a big mistake unless they're all fired first (and some arrested) and the bank is nationalized. Then we should do what Yanis is suggesting.

    • @WhaddupDoc
      @WhaddupDoc Рік тому

      ⁠@@gmac8586 Inflation doesn’t have anything to do with the quantity of money.
      Inflation is only determined by a rise in prices, which was caused by companies post-pandemic immediately jacking up the cost of their products in order to make up for the brief profit loss they underwent during the height of COVID.
      Saying the Fed is a private bank, I mean I’m sure there’s some legalese I’m missing, but the Fed chair and Secretary of the Treasury are appointed by the presidential administration, they’re pretty much nationalized already.
      Yannis is suggesting they pour money into public work projects with real value instead of just allowing it to circulate amongst the financial elite.

  • @mildredmartinez8843
    @mildredmartinez8843 Рік тому

    So glad that you had this prestigious economist and socialist on your program. He has the ability to make even the most complex issues comprehensible to us. Great work.

  • @chitmengkhong4057
    @chitmengkhong4057 Рік тому +2

    Class struggle within the CPC!
    How fascinating!

    • @agoodchow
      @agoodchow Рік тому

      Yanis point is such class struggle failed to even take off in Europe and USA, let alone to have a clash of two force within CCP.

  • @dannyferguson9415
    @dannyferguson9415 Рік тому +1

    great interview. Live long and prosper.

  • @n.karamousadakis
    @n.karamousadakis Рік тому

    It is a blessing seeing these people discuss.

  • @meggallucci5300
    @meggallucci5300 Рік тому

    Excellent interview.

  • @billmeldrum7669
    @billmeldrum7669 Рік тому +1

    Yanis's comments about internal ructions within the Chinese system (and CCP) are absolutely on point. The exponential influence of high profile Chinese USD billionnaires has much in common with their Silicon Valley and Wall St fellow travellers.

  • @davidl5119
    @davidl5119 Рік тому +3

    Yanis! I wish he would do interviews with more people. The guy condenses things in a way that circumvent our stupid proaganda.