Yanis Varoufakis
speaker
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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He said, you know, guys, you're on your own.
The dollar is our currency, but from today it's going to be your huge problem.
I don't give a damn.
You can go and jump.
This is all about maintaining and enhancing American hegemony while at the same time increasing our deficits.
And I'm going to divide the dollar.
Now, you mentioned the use of tariffs by Donald Trump.
Well, he's not the first one to have used tariffs as a ramming rod, as a weapon.
Ronald Reagan in 1985.
Remember the so-called Plaza Accords, the Plaza Debates?
What did he do?
He got the Japanese in one room and said, okay, you have grown your trade surplus with the United States immeasurably and I'm going to smack you over the head with a blunt instrument.
And the blunt instrument is 150% tariffs if you don't agree to revalue, to increase the value of the yen.
effectively to devalue the American dollar vis-a-vis the Japanese currency.
And, you know, they rolled over.
And the result is that Japan is finished, kaput, ever since the Plaza Accords.
So, you know, all this, I mean, in a sense, you're quite right.
He's bringing a new intensity of chaotic behavior, and a lot of it is personal.
But you said that there were AI or randomly chosen tariff rates.
Look, by the way, there were not.
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