Yanis Varoufakis
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1,142 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 3 May
Yanis Varoufakis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They're not going to solve the problem.
I'm all for rent controls, but they're not going to solve the problem.
If you look at our societies since the end of Bretton Woods, the neoliberal era,
I mean, look at your country, okay?
For better or for worse, it doesn't matter whether it should be done or should not be done.
Manufacturing was decimated in this country.
It was replaced by shopping malls.
That meant you have a gigantic trade deficit, which is financed through money that comes in, not to be invested, but for speculative purposes.
And therefore, you have a whole middle class that has put so much money into housing.
So housing has become a casino and it absorbs all the economic energies.
So when you talk about a growth plan and so on, you know, there are no taxes or tax reductions, tax increases and so on that can sort out this mess on their own.
You need something equivalent to what Roosevelt did in 1933 with a new deal.
Let's start with wealth taxes.
Why am I not enthusiastic about wealth taxes?
I believe that they're symbolically important.
It's social justice.
If you have gigantic assets that are the result of rent extraction, then you should pay.
But I don't think that any government...
In the present set of circumstances, with the institutions that we have, can seize enough of the wealth of the wealthy, however ill-gotten it was, in order to fund the NHS and in order to bring back some kind of income distribution which is palatable.
On the question of housing, you know, I have all these people that have borrowed through the nose.
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