The Latest Breaking News from Yanis Varoufakis

Valve's former economist says Steam could produce 'better macroeconomic forecasts' than Goldman Sachs with the power of crowdsourcing and brownie points

A haunting vision of a Valve that might've been.

PC Gamer · Aug 2, 2024

Valve unintentionally set the stage for today's digital economic hellscape, according to its former economist in residence

Yanis Varoufakis says we're in the age of "technofeudalism," and TF2 hats brought us there.

PC Gamer · Aug 2, 2024

Apple says it's sorry for smushing musical instruments and art supplies to advertise its latest iPad

The computer-maker apologized and said it "missed the mark" in its attempt to tell us that its new iPad Pro is really thin.

PC Gamer · May 9, 2024

Former Greek minister's wishlist for Australia

The economist's call for a nationwide tax overhaul comes as part of a demand to counteract the concentration of power among large technological corporations.

AAP · Mar 13, 2024

Labour must overcome its small-c conservatism

Letters: Readers respond to articles by Yanis Varoufakis, Polly Toynbee and George Monbiot on Labour’s economic policies

The Guardian - UK · Feb 20, 2024

Why is Labour still using the self-defeating, discredited ‘maxed out credit card’ analogy?

It is one thing to U-turn on a modest green transition programme. It is another to do so using mendacious Tory economic paradigms, says the economist Yanis Varoufakis

The Guardian - UK · Feb 15, 2024

EU’s Borrell suggests US stop arming Israel amid fears over Rafah assault

Josep Borrell says ‘too many people’ are being killed in Gaza as Israel pledges to press on with Rafah offensive.

Al Jazeera · Feb 12, 2024

Is capitalism dead? Yanis Varoufakis thinks it is – and he knows who killed it

Yanis Varoufakis grew up during the Greek dictatorship of 1967-1974. He later became an economics professor and was briefly Greek finance minister in 2015.

The Conversation · Nov 8, 2023

Loud and uncowed: how UnHerd owner Paul Marshall became Britain’s newest media mogul

UnHerd has quickly become one of the biggest sites for political commentary in the UK, and now the hedge fund founder behind it – who also funds GB News and donates to the Tories – is trying to add the Telegraph to a fast-growing empire. What does he really want?

The Guardian - UK · Oct 28, 2023

‘Capitalism is dead. Now we have something much worse’: Yanis Varoufakis on extremism, Starmer, and the tyranny of big tech

In his new book, the maverick Greek economist says we are witnessing an epochal shift. At his island home, he argues it’s now the ‘fiefdoms’ of tech firms that shape us

The Guardian - UK · Sep 24, 2023