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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There was a very simple deterministic formula.
He simply...
computed his tariffs, the Liberation Day tariffs, in proportion to the trade deficit the United States had with particular countries.
It was really very, there was nothing reciprocal about them.
It was, you know, the greater your trade surplus towards the United States, the greater the tariff I'm going to slap on you.
But he never meant to keep these.
These were simply, you know, these blunt instruments that he used to batter people around, to hit them about the head, and then say, okay, now come and negotiate with me, each one of you separately.
Now, he has gone into a territory of personal self-celebration that we've never seen from any American president in the past.
That's quite correct.
I mean, I was astonished at the way he has behaved vis-à-vis Prime Minister Modi of India.
One would have thought that the United States would be very eager to see India move away from China, move away from the BRICS, you know, go into bed with the Trump administration.
He hasn't done that.
And instead he has chosen to make the issue of whether he was the one that stopped the recent skirmish war between India and Pakistan the determinant of whether he's going to increase the tariffs or not.
So he does that.
But you know that?
I mean, the madman strategy...
We have to remember it was devised by Rand Corporation in the 1950s as a rational game theoretical way of behaving.
Because if you convince people that you are mad, then they will think twice before they confront you.
By the way, you know, these central bankers will never learn
By signing that letter in support of Jerome Powell, they're handing a huge, huge gift over to Donald Trump.
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