Yanis Varoufakis
speaker
1,142 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 3 May
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It's intense first-degree price discrimination, which is algorithmic.
And we know that Instacart, on its own, along with Amazon.com, have contributed to an increase in the value of groceries by 30%.
Now, there's nothing that the Federal Reserve can do that.
Even if they put up interest rates to 10%, that kind of technological inflation, inflation created by what I call technofederalism, is not going to go away.
So...
I fear, I hate saying that, that on the question of interest rates, I think that Trump is right.
But there's a bigger question, the question about the so-called hypothesis or aspiration for central bank independence.
The idea that the elected government shouldn't run monetary policy, monetary policy should be handed over to experts.
who, on behalf of the whole of society, make dispassionate apolitical decisions.
Well, you know, that's rubbish.
There's no such thing as an apolitical decision.
Who sets interest rates is a political decision.
And, you know, you have a class conflict.
You have debtors and you have lenders.
When you increase the interest rate, you favor one at the expense of the other.
So it's a political decision.
Now...
The gist, however, of it is, remember, the Federal Reserve Bank is not, it's not even a state bank.
It belongs to Wall Street.
And not just formally, but in terms of, you know, when they speak of the independence of the central bank, independence from whom?
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