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In this week's Econoclasts, Wolfgang and I question the assumption that the US $ shields Americans from the vagaries of default. In the 2nd section, I suggest that Chinese AI, unlike Silicon Valley's version, has a truly revolutionary potential, offering China a chance to escape #Econoclasts #AI #China #US #CN

In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau reveal the hidden macroeconomic realities behind China’s ongoing growth recession and local debt crisis, and expose how decades of central bank bailouts and Quantitative Easing have fuelled an inflated #Economics #China #DebtCrisis #CN

In this episode of The Econoclasts, Wolfgang & Ι dissect the establishment’s self-defeating 'lawfare' strategy against rising ultra-rightists like Marine Le Pen, and Nigel Farage. We also debunk the myth that capitalism is synonymous with free markets, contrasting Western #Econoclasts #Lawfare #Capitalism #FR #GB

This week The Econoclasts expose the Trump-Iran non-deal, reveal the EU's wasteful defence spending built on exaggerated threats, and juxtapose the technological US-EU chasm against China’s productivity-boosting integration of AI & robotics. https://t.co/fjlwZgxhpj #Econoclasts #TrumpIran #AIintegration #US #IR #EU #CN

In the latest The Econoclasts, Wolfgang and I focus on: (a) Germany’s shocking failure to be voted onto the UN Security Council and (b) how the United Kingdom has become a financial vassal completely trapped by its dependence on leveraged American capital https://t.co/SuKqmvggWJ #Econoclasts #Germany #UKFinance #DE #GB #US

In the latest episode of The Econoclasts, Wolfgang Munchau and I talk AI - except not the usual bad-good manner. Wolfgang kicks off by sharing his astonishment at AI's recent success in proving a mathematical theorem that had hitherto defeated the brightest mathematicians - and #AI #Mathematics #Econoclasts #Thetweetdoesnotmentionanyspecificcountries.Therefore #therearenocountrycodestoreturn.

AI's job apocalypse and Techlordism - the extreme transhumanist ideology that serves the techlords in the same way neoliberalism served the financiers | On this week's The Econoclasts https://t.co/11iFDejLL4 #AI #Techlordism #Transhumanism #Thetweetdoesnotmentionanyspecificcountries.Therefore #theresponseis:

Last year, my friend Hasan Piker addressed the Oxford Union. He spoke cogently (https://t.co/FqLTSOShQn) on the rise of antisemitism, fascism and the dangerous conflation between antisemitism and anti-Zionism. This coming Friday, The Econoclasts (that is, Wolfgang Munchau and https://t.co/HHJPNqa2tW #Antisemitism #Fascism #AntiZionism #GB #US