2008 Financial Crisis Was the West’s 1991 Moment |Yanis Varoufakis

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  • Опубликовано: 19 янв 2025

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  • @Jamaal67i
    @Jamaal67i 25 дней назад +304

    It was a very bad decision to remove the Glass-Steagall Act in the late 1990s, which led to the spectacular failure of huge banks during the financial crisis of 2007-2008. To prevent another disaster, Dodd-Frank and this statute both need to be reestablished right away. What happened with SVB is only the beginning of what will happen if nothing is done to address the current situation.

    • @Peterl4290
      @Peterl4290 25 дней назад +3

      I believe SVB was making an effort to reorganize their bond portfolio. Yes, they would lose money if they sold their low-yielding bonds. But, they were trying to make up for it by repurchasing bonds on the open market at the higher interest rate.

    • @jerrycampbell-ut9yf
      @jerrycampbell-ut9yf 25 дней назад +2

      Although the economy has so far held up, the SVB scenario serves as a warning that Fed rate hikes are still having an impact. At times like this, investors must be vigilant about the next inevitability. You don't have to act on every forecast, therefore I'll advise you to hire a financial counselor. This has been my fallback position for a while.

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      @sabastinenoah 25 дней назад +1

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      @sabastinenoah 25 дней назад

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  • @kaushalsuvarna5156
    @kaushalsuvarna5156 2 месяца назад +40

    Good to see some people still remember 2008

    • @HansJuergen-ps8bt
      @HansJuergen-ps8bt 9 дней назад +2

      Something Yanis will never forget. Europe robbed him of his power and the Greeks of their money.

  • @henryyip1
    @henryyip1 2 месяца назад +239

    Yanis Varoufakis One of the Greatest Thinkers of our Time

    • @Flylikea
      @Flylikea 2 месяца назад +8

      True, his mind is brilliant.

    • @MetaView7
      @MetaView7 2 месяца назад +5

      *The Greek is Back !*

    • @anthonyfong2292
      @anthonyfong2292 2 месяца назад +6

      He was my lecturer 🤗

    • @derricktapia2098
      @derricktapia2098 2 месяца назад

      If he knew what he was talking about, that would be good... not sure why they're on american internet, pretending. Why aren't they on thier own countries Internet.

    • @MetaView7
      @MetaView7 2 месяца назад +11

      @@derricktapia2098 What makes you think you own this internet? Why are you using a Chinese keyboard ???

  • @raymondho3574
    @raymondho3574 2 месяца назад +45

    This is the best discussion on definition of globalization I have seen, whether one agrees with its impact or not. Get the definition right first. And precise and concise of larger global developments over past hundred years. Thank you very much.

  • @Mike-ys4sr2023
    @Mike-ys4sr2023 2 месяца назад +95

    Always a pleasure and lesson to listen to Mr Yanis on politics and economic

  • @dunzhen
    @dunzhen 2 месяца назад +130

    Could listen to Yanis all day. Love this talk with him and a Chinese person...full discussion needs to be released

    • @evanmcarthur478
      @evanmcarthur478 2 месяца назад +5

      He’s not just gonna let you listen to him talk all day , he’d make you read too😅

    • @hoboringmaster8029
      @hoboringmaster8029 2 месяца назад

      What??! The W3tback!!….. ohh ohh the world bank 😂😂😂😂

  • @Ksrwilhelm
    @Ksrwilhelm 2 месяца назад +54

    Another important factor of WWII saving capitalism imo was the fact that Europe was almost completely destroyed. There was so much opportunity for productive investment. The process of real capital accumulation was almost reset.
    By the late 70's this venue of investment was drying up, with financial speculative investment beginning to dominate, leading up to 2008

    • @jama987
      @jama987 2 месяца назад +1

      Well put Sir.

    • @louise_rose
      @louise_rose Месяц назад +2

      Americans love to contrast "old Europe" (supposedly weak, frail and complacent) with "young and virile America" but in terms of economics and investment it's sometimes the other way around. As you pointed out, Europe saw periods of massive destruction during the world wars - especially WW2, and this called for reinvestment and rebuilding, but also allowed for new groups to come to the fore, capital and assets shifting hands and so on. The US hasn't really seen that kind of widespread disasters since the Civil war, and the result is that old family fortunes and business empires have sometimes had a better chance of survival in the US - at least up until the 1980s/90s.
      I would also say that the western European political scene during the Cold War was sometimes more modern and able to take on new problems than the American on, with its heavy, uneasy swings between civil rights progress and conservative/oligarchic politics.

  • @bobiel9048
    @bobiel9048 Месяц назад +6

    "An evil man will burn down his own nation in order to rule over the ashes" - Sun Tzu
    Private Equity destroys every aspect of our lives.
    If we must live in chains, let them live in fear.

  • @fabiodeoliveiraribeiro1602
    @fabiodeoliveiraribeiro1602 2 месяца назад +61

    Varoufakis failed to mention that since the end of World War II, the US has been fomenting and financing coups d'état, civil wars and wars between states to subsidize its immense private military-industrial complex. This branch of American industry (the only one that has survived alongside the oil industry and entertainment) does not need to be saved by China. On the contrary, it will continue to distribute profits if a new major war breaks out, and this has been the goal of the US government in the Middle East, Asia and Europe.

    • @stchan8569
      @stchan8569 2 месяца назад +22

      Even before that period, US was involved in wars and Jimmy Carter said 226 years were involved in wars out of 242 years as a nation. The most war like nation in the modern world.

    • @christineyoung8345
      @christineyoung8345 2 месяца назад +15

      That's a different topic. But while on that topic, America's military hegemony will be jeopardized by the erosion of dollar dominance, which has become a reality due to China's rise.

    • @fakekomeil4084
      @fakekomeil4084 2 месяца назад

      that part is on Russia, Iran and probably northKorea to handle

    • @musiqtee
      @musiqtee 2 месяца назад +4

      Good points here - just mentioning that Varoufakis has «mentioned» every aspect of US hegemony repeatedly. The forum (or time available) isn’t always the right one to do so…
      All of this is interconnected, they’re not separate issues. Just like the myriad discussion points in any board room, coalesce to the single goal of the company - to «win».
      Open question; Do we as voters (people, majority) understand what the coalescence of our «issues» is?

    • @gustavoflorio5383
      @gustavoflorio5383 Месяц назад +1

      Well, he gave the Iran-Iraq-Kuwait example.

  • @vladimirdashkov3041
    @vladimirdashkov3041 2 месяца назад +95

    The best economist in the world

    • @vivalaleta
      @vivalaleta 2 месяца назад +6

      I slightly prefer Wolff and Hudson myself but Yanis would round out the three....but I love Desai... Economists are my favorite speakers.

    • @dimiberberu
      @dimiberberu 2 месяца назад +3

      Best potential because he deals with DIEM25, trying to bring Democracy to the EU (unlikely with US bullying)

    • @JK-gu3tl
      @JK-gu3tl 2 месяца назад

      Peter schiff

  • @peterjohn5834
    @peterjohn5834 Месяц назад +3

    Stunning interview and thesis.

  • @juhantoon6524
    @juhantoon6524 2 месяца назад +30

    Many Westerners especially the politicians view him as a traitor. But what he did is just simply to speak the truth. And many a time, truth hurts.

  • @ranjanaprobodh6322
    @ranjanaprobodh6322 2 месяца назад +14

    Excellent analysis, revealing, informative and educative!!

  • @theweakthemightythecrazy
    @theweakthemightythecrazy 2 месяца назад +19

    This was a very good interview.

  • @taiwanstillisntacountry
    @taiwanstillisntacountry 2 месяца назад +256

    2008, the PRC saved the world economy.
    Never forget that

    • @johntitor414
      @johntitor414 2 месяца назад +63

      to be fair thats like those ignorant americans saying America pulled China out of proverty by sending their industries, technically partially true, but its done on pure self interests.

    • @elonmusksellssnakeoil1744
      @elonmusksellssnakeoil1744 2 месяца назад +7

      Where can I learn more about this?

    • @Darkmatter321
      @Darkmatter321 2 месяца назад +8

      Exactly right 👍

    • @Darkmatter321
      @Darkmatter321 2 месяца назад

      ​@@johntitor414The difference is the US'self interest consists of washing wars, of China is making mutual progress

    • @bungkusi2432
      @bungkusi2432 2 месяца назад +17

      Actually... To be fair
      *CHINA DID NOT* save the world economy at that time
      China just let the America to have bigger bubble

  • @Law-of-love
    @Law-of-love 2 месяца назад +19

    Brilliant analysis 🫡

  • @cibernerd
    @cibernerd 2 месяца назад +20

    Thanks, enjoyed your video and Mr. Varoufakis lecture

  • @flutieflambert
    @flutieflambert 2 месяца назад +19

    From a socialist perspective the term “globalization” has been misused for it refers to the globalization and hence accumulation of capital only, while labor was and is deliberately prevented from coalescing its power globally. Only capital was/is allowed to move across borders effortlessly while labor was/is deliberately prevented from moving across borders in order to maintain regional pockets of poverty that capitalists could exploit via its globalization.

  • @Badbentham
    @Badbentham 2 месяца назад +27

    I feel that it deserves to be pointed out that Capitalism itself, in its essence, is based on an expanding deficit run by the community. That then lands as Surplus in the books of the capitalists: No printing press, with unlimited " IOU supply" , no capitalism . - By 1929, it then became completely apparent that this ever-expanding debt mechanism, to the benefit of the profit-making class, became unsustainable for the single national economies. Thus, the US created post- WW2 a globalized version of it, with themselves as the centre.

    • @childsname7294
      @childsname7294 2 месяца назад +3

      I think China shows how capitalism should be done: a balance between the common good and the power of private capital.

    • @diedoktor
      @diedoktor 2 месяца назад +1

      ​@@childsname7294 China had a communist revolution and is controlled by the Chinese Communist Party. If that's how you think Capitalism should be done then maybe you're not a Capitalist.

    • @yearningcontrol
      @yearningcontrol 2 месяца назад +1

      ​@@diedoktorameirca is controlled by a singular orange man, that is even more fucked up.

    • @seanbeadles7421
      @seanbeadles7421 2 месяца назад +1

      International capital was already established in the 19th century. Belgian Congo, Banana wars, opium wars-boxer rebellion were all a result of international capital. I think the change after ww2 was the proliferation of American mass media

    • @mementomori7825
      @mementomori7825 2 месяца назад

      ​@diedoktor I don't have capital, so I can't be a capitalist.

  • @marisalin3806
    @marisalin3806 2 месяца назад +25

    Thank you !! for open our mind and teach us how the economic works.

  • @SJSUPhilosopher-c1d
    @SJSUPhilosopher-c1d 19 дней назад +2

    Prof.Varoufakis is right about how capitalism keeps getting a new lease on life, and he gives good examples to show this. Thanks. Note: Just after 4:00 the captions should read 'Bretton' not 'Brethren.' That's not to nitpick but just to help in any small way I can. Thanks again.

  • @mariettestabel275
    @mariettestabel275 2 месяца назад +20

    Mr.Varoufakis has a Brilliant Mind. Great Leader

    • @henryyip1
      @henryyip1 2 месяца назад +2

      Yanis Varoufakis One of the Greatest Thinkers of our Time

    • @mariettestabel275
      @mariettestabel275 2 месяца назад +1

      ​@@henryyip1
      Greeks-the Light of the World. 💫

  • @hc1897
    @hc1897 2 месяца назад +33

    In 2008 I suspect China did the world as well as ITSELF a good turn. If the world economy had collapsed then, the global south was still too underdeveloped to keep things going. So the US really was too big to fail at the time. Now the tables have not 100% turned, but at least today the global south has a fighting chance to make it through the collapse of the traditional big economies which are imploding before our eyes.

    • @mysterioanonymous3206
      @mysterioanonymous3206 2 месяца назад

      I'd tread very careful. The west was extremely welcoming in integrating the global poor into their trade system but seeing the hostility towards us is quickly turning people around. Once these historical trends are underway it's virtually impossible to stop them. Should the west take an aggressive stance the developing world incl China is toast. Again, be careful what you wish for. Every action generates a reaction. And I and other westerns aren't feeling the love trust me. You should pray the west isn't taking a hostile position. When we come to fight your world will lay in ashes.

  • @Hystericall
    @Hystericall 2 месяца назад +29

    Very wise talk by both gentlemen.

  • @valuedent6485
    @valuedent6485 2 месяца назад +8

    always great to hear from mr. Yanis!! 👏👏👏

  • @thevindictive6145
    @thevindictive6145 2 месяца назад +31

    There are so many asian countries that work their ass off but yet have weak exchange rate. Its time to end the US in meddling with other countries finances. Everybody needs to benefit from their hardwork, not just the G7. The poor farmers to the miners, to the factory workers and so on. Not wallstreet and their bankers.

    • @Iandar1
      @Iandar1 2 месяца назад

      You kinda have to end capitalism at that point.

  • @AyyappanRandaman
    @AyyappanRandaman 2 месяца назад +6

    In the broadest sense economic progress is about trust. Trust comes from transperancy. Transperancy comes from sharing all relevant information which must be reliable and verifiable. This is why Gorbachev started his reforms with glasnost and perestroika.

  • @Andrew-rc3vh
    @Andrew-rc3vh 2 месяца назад +7

    What is going on at the end of the video (~13m) is a classic case of a word that means one thing in China and different thing in the west. That reminds me of when a British party of diplomats turned up in China wearing poppies. They were in The Great Hall of the People.

  • @DianaTownsend-kj5kj
    @DianaTownsend-kj5kj 2 месяца назад +215

    I’ve been thinking a lot lately about globalization. There are so many opinions on whether it’s good or bad, especially in this era of economic turbulence and shifting power dynamics. It feels like we're in a state of constant change

    • @georgeearling905
      @georgeearling905 2 месяца назад

      Just look at how interconnected we are now, when something happens in one part of the world, it affects everyone

    • @AliciaCrone
      @AliciaCrone 2 месяца назад

      globalization is such a complex issue. On one hand, it’s opened up so many opportunities, countries working together, businesses expanding globally, technology spreading at a faster rate. But on the other hand, it’s definitely made economies more vulnerable to global shocks

    • @Sanchyfab
      @Sanchyfab 2 месяца назад

      but what I find fascinating is how people like Zhang Weiwei and Yanis Varoufakis approach the topic from different angles. Their dialogue really highlights the nuances in the debate about capitalism and globalization. Zhang looks at how China’s managed to integrate into the global economy while maintaining control, whereas Varoufakis focuses on how capitalism, in its current form, is becoming more unstable

    • @ericbergman7546
      @ericbergman7546 2 месяца назад

      That’s exactly why I think globalization is both a blessing and a challenge. It’s reshaping economies and power structures. The rise of China, for instance, is challenging traditional Western dominance, and that’s creating a lot of tension

    • @CarlAcevedo-sc3bl
      @CarlAcevedo-sc3bl 2 месяца назад

      But it also creates opportunities for new ways of thinking. We can’t go back to isolationism, the world’s too connected for that

  • @JohnLocal-v6i
    @JohnLocal-v6i 2 месяца назад +32

    100%! I'm saying this since more than a year and people look at me in disbelief.

    • @heinzgrilberger722
      @heinzgrilberger722 2 месяца назад +6

      Happens to me too ! A lot of people look at me in disbelieve but only because they are too much brainwashed and not smart and educated sufficient🤠🤠🥳🥳

  • @ohmikesroh5904
    @ohmikesroh5904 2 месяца назад +27

    Why would anyone save a traitor who keeps stabbing in your back?

    • @toliverwrist6770
      @toliverwrist6770 2 месяца назад +14

      Not just a traitor, but also a liar, bully, narcissist, robber, warcriminal, and serial killer.

    • @Papawcanner
      @Papawcanner 2 месяца назад +3

      To preserve their market in the US . This will not happen again . The US is done in so many ways .

    • @junky2fk
      @junky2fk 2 месяца назад

      @@Papawcannercorrect, the US no longer has a prospective market for Chinese companies to invest in.

  • @oceanst50
    @oceanst50 2 месяца назад +25

    On top of his mastery of the subject matter, Yanis has the morality, honor, courage and integrity, which are lacking in some leading economists in the west

    • @henryyip1
      @henryyip1 2 месяца назад +3

      Yanis Varoufakis One of the Greatest Thinkers of our Time

    • @jamesmoy1214
      @jamesmoy1214 2 месяца назад

      Don’t Greed and selfishness

  • @TakeThis-z7v
    @TakeThis-z7v 2 месяца назад +1

    Very clear and to the point. Always eager to listen to YV.

  • @thedolphin5428
    @thedolphin5428 2 месяца назад +7

    Incredible insights and myth busting. Go Yanis!

  • @bryansmith9231
    @bryansmith9231 2 месяца назад +3

    This was so great. Thank both of you for sharing these facts.

  • @petergreen5337
    @petergreen5337 2 месяца назад +3

    ❤Thank you very much for this lesson Yanis

  • @oneplanetearth
    @oneplanetearth 2 месяца назад +5

    This is so GOOD. Marvelous YANIS - BRAVO 🤩🤩🤩

  • @alangraham8926
    @alangraham8926 2 месяца назад +6

    Yanis really sees things how they truly are. He has never forgiven the banksters for what they did to Greece.

    • @mysterioanonymous3206
      @mysterioanonymous3206 2 месяца назад

      You shouldn't take advice on economics from a Greek person, an absolute basket case and one of the poorer countries in Europe. Mind you, yanis has never in his life worked in the real economy. He's a professor. He just talks and theorises. His failed stint as finance minister was over quickly, a failure that he blames on Germany. This guy literally has never worked a real job - he's a tax recipient, not payer. He is clueless.

  • @CanTho2022
    @CanTho2022 2 месяца назад +132

    China said they WILL NOT bail out AmeriKKKa the 2nd time…..and it is coming! 😂😂😂

    • @ohmikesroh5904
      @ohmikesroh5904 2 месяца назад +16

      @@CanTho2022 yes. Why save or help someone who is only out to kill you.

    • @antediluvianatheist5262
      @antediluvianatheist5262 2 месяца назад

      Both they are Russia are trying to let USA down slowly.
      Crashes cause panic, and panicking people do stupid things.
      With nukes.

    • @JCSY1
      @JCSY1 2 месяца назад +9

      Yes. No more bailing someone who keeps sanctioning and attacking you.

    • @lisa.e5776
      @lisa.e5776 2 месяца назад +1

      Good 👍

    • @johnwright9372
      @johnwright9372 2 месяца назад

      China did not save America in 2008. The Federal Government did by pumping vast amounts of money into the banking system.

  • @mejiger
    @mejiger 2 месяца назад +2

    Mr weiwei and Yannis are one of the best thinkers in the world today

  • @childsname7294
    @childsname7294 2 месяца назад +10

    Very revealing that Yanis says "the more trade the better for everyone".

    • @tigading2177
      @tigading2177 2 месяца назад

      which is precisely the reason why USnUK are busy stopping global trade with sanctions and stealing foreign reserves.

    • @jurgschupbach3059
      @jurgschupbach3059 2 месяца назад

      Trade yes .........but not Humans...........manufacturing can be done everywhere.........oh but thats how we make the profit

  • @Emilien-hy3sy
    @Emilien-hy3sy 2 месяца назад +1

    Thank you Yanis. We now absolutely need to stop capitalism to avoid total social and ecological collapse

  • @BobbyGriffin-ur3ik
    @BobbyGriffin-ur3ik 2 месяца назад +25

    Thanks for the perfect update. Thinking about investment diversification is certainly key, How do I properly invest in the market and what strategies do I employ to make significant gains and stable cashflow?

    • @SylvieKgirard-ij2sx
      @SylvieKgirard-ij2sx 2 месяца назад

      in my opinion, some financial situations can be handled on your own if you research enough, while others are best navigated in consultation with a financial specialist

    • @Matswagner
      @Matswagner 2 месяца назад

      Productivity is never accidental; it is always the result of careful planning, dedication, and consistency. I am grateful to God for my advisor, MRS Clara Burn

    • @Wallason-zh1if
      @Wallason-zh1if 2 месяца назад

      Clara Burn is the best, honestly, I benefit from it too. This inflation has taught people the importance of multiple incomes. Investments help a lot.

    • @bigsuperlivinginarizona7383
      @bigsuperlivinginarizona7383 2 месяца назад

      I am impressed by the way expert Clara Burn conducts business and makes statements. And I really like her quick answer

    • @DelightBarbie
      @DelightBarbie 2 месяца назад

      I initially invested $8k I was making return of the investment plus interests.

  • @orangutan4696
    @orangutan4696 2 месяца назад +9

    Fools think their own way is right, but the wise listen to others.

  • @ShameOnZionists
    @ShameOnZionists 2 месяца назад +1

    Very important conversation

  • @abelmagwitchgreatexpectati7885
    @abelmagwitchgreatexpectati7885 2 месяца назад +10

    If you take me to be your enemy how can you then be my friend

  • @tonedowne
    @tonedowne Месяц назад

    I find it really hard to explain this, but Yannis is such a gifted communicator.

  • @wuhui
    @wuhui Месяц назад

    Always educating to hear from this knowledgeable Greek academic

  • @TheFirstGroover
    @TheFirstGroover 2 месяца назад +1

    Thank you Yanis

  • @samsungtabs8121
    @samsungtabs8121 2 месяца назад +2

    Great wisdom... i just feel better about myself because this video gives validation to what i have learned about world recently 😅

  • @shaunehuolohan5736
    @shaunehuolohan5736 2 месяца назад +1

    A mixture of all systems work best in different areas.
    Military uses a dictatorship, farmers capitalism, miners socialism sharing mineral wealth with the people and this provides wealth for health, education and infrastructure.

  • @aneurindavies5943
    @aneurindavies5943 16 дней назад

    "The Centre Cannot Hold with its Organising Theme" is a phrase from WB Yeats Poem "The Second Coming".

  • @s.nawfal6211
    @s.nawfal6211 2 месяца назад

    Yanis Varoufakis is spot on.

  • @hongqi5734
    @hongqi5734 Месяц назад

    Professor Yanis is absolutely correct. If China had liberalise its capital market, it would have sent China back to pre-opening up period and it would have caused disaster. All what we toiled for would have been in vain and the country would have broken up to pieces for the Western countries to colonize.

  • @jacintochua6885
    @jacintochua6885 Месяц назад +1

    Global South financed western bankrupt econimies in 2098. Withn huge purchase of western treasuries.

  • @bobiel9048
    @bobiel9048 Месяц назад

    Society 1.0 - Hunting Society
    Society 2.0 - Agrarian Society
    Society 3.0 - Industrial Society
    Society 4.0 - Information Society
    Society 5.0 - Super Smart Society
    Society 6.0 - Wise Society
    Society 6.0 - Wise Society
    Smart is a word used to emphasize that someone is intelligent.
    Wise, on the other hand, is used to emphasize that someone has experience, knowledge, and good judgment.

  • @Peekul1
    @Peekul1 2 месяца назад +1

    Harry shearer made a joke about that on his podcast 20 years ago. "We spent all that money to defeat communism, only to go bankrupt 20 years later."

  • @cutemomr
    @cutemomr 2 месяца назад +2

    Yes, what is happening in China now. No country can stand idle.

  • @phillipholland6967
    @phillipholland6967 2 месяца назад +2

    so long since the notion of capital control has been articulated...in retrospect, Deng Xiaoping & his advisers were so canny...so much food for thought in this video..

  • @fffuu4444
    @fffuu4444 2 месяца назад +1

    Make sense, you don't help those that goes around bad mouthing you.

  • @siewkonsum7291
    @siewkonsum7291 2 месяца назад +1

    Quote.
    Prof Donald Hoffman says,
    _"Capitalism & Democracy are for _*_unenlightened_*_ people,_
    _Socialism & Communism are for _*_enlightened_*_ people."_ Unquote.

  • @missycat7095
    @missycat7095 2 месяца назад +4

    everything works till CEO greed kocks in to pay for the donations to keep it all going.

    • @henryyip1
      @henryyip1 2 месяца назад +3

      capitalism is the1% screwing the 99%

    • @missycat7095
      @missycat7095 2 месяца назад

      @@henryyip1 well really its the lower 80%, the 19% make it happen, your boss telling you there is no raise for you to save their bonus. While the whole top 20% donate to keep it all going by LAWS.
      stay well

  • @TK621why
    @TK621why 2 месяца назад +1

    I have a lot of time for Yannis Varoufakis and the points around globalisation (albeit not as in depth as a real lecture), however what would also need examining is China's "money recycling" through their own central bank, and through property speculation. The collapse of these property schemes, essentially pyramid schemes that the public and banks took part in, has severely tied the hands of the government and effected the poorest most, not to mention contributing to a massive waste of resources and to shoddy construction projects. (Yannis ought to know about Tofu dreg buildings as well as American bridges)
    This is not to say the points are invalid but criticisms of economic systems cut both ways and we should be seeking ways to trade and industrialise that are a) sustainable both materially and economically and b) recycle and reuse the waste of the last century to equalise the standard of living around the world.

    • @chavdarnaidenov2661
      @chavdarnaidenov2661 Месяц назад

      He's not "criticising" , he's analysing. Thinking people prefer to understand a thing, before saying if and when it is good, bad, useful, for what purposes etc.Your purposes make the use of some knowledge good - not the knowledge by itself.

  • @mattsuran1270
    @mattsuran1270 2 месяца назад

    The state is there to create and enforce the rules of the game. When one side starts to rewrite those rules is it a surprise that side starts to win every time.

  • @bungkusi2432
    @bungkusi2432 2 месяца назад +5

    14:30 👈🏻👈🏻👈🏻 well said
    If panda listen to eagle at that time
    Panda poverty will be like the biggest democracy country in the world

  • @prashanthkamath7437
    @prashanthkamath7437 2 месяца назад +1

    Can this guest clear my small doubt? Broad money in the economy as a share of monetarily measured nominal annual GDP was about 0.5 times in 1960. It has seen a secular and steady increase over the years. At present it is more than 1.5 times the monetarily measured nominal annual GDP.
    Let me translate it for non-economists. My blood pressure was 115/70 when I was born in 1960. My blood pressure has steadily increased over the years and now it reads 345/210. What would that mean? Anyone interested in economics can answer this question. Kindly do not come back with a "the economy has grown" answer, that would be stupid, and I am being nice here! Just like a higher BP would have altered my body's structure and makeup and turned it into a powder keg, waiting to blow -up. Why I am yet to receive any answer to this question of mine? What are the central banks doing? What is the economic academia doing? Unfortunately, our mainstream macroeconomics is as much of a Voodoo as Modern Monetary Theory

    • @diedoktor
      @diedoktor 2 месяца назад

      Isn't that what happens when Chinese capitalists invest in other economies? Their assets have an associated debt represented as money. It seems like a function of capital migrating to china.

  • @thepagecollective
    @thepagecollective 2 месяца назад

    The Cold War was a competition between Anglo-American style capitalism and Soviet style Communism, with everyone else in the middle. 2008 was 1991 for Anglo-American capitalism, not capitalism itself. Bnd China is one giant bubble where the air is slowly being let out. The Acela Train train works fine, though.

  • @billykotsos4642
    @billykotsos4642 2 месяца назад

    We havent had an economy since 2008 but States need to spend more and more on taking care of their elderly citizens

  • @garrenosborne9623
    @garrenosborne9623 2 месяца назад

    I largely agree with Yanis, but what about the 1990s crash in the south east asia? I believe it was also a pivotal moment...when the east realised that following the west blindly had issues & the seeds of the multi polar world were sown.

  • @SH-bw5fx
    @SH-bw5fx 2 месяца назад

    " Resuscitation " of capitalism by WW2 .
    It can t be revitilized , revived , reanimated , rejuvinate

  • @B4s3MXxD
    @B4s3MXxD 2 месяца назад

    One distinction between 2008 GFC and 1991 USSR collapse was transparency. The US system is transparent, so much so that there were people who could foresee the 2008 crisis coming and could profit from it like Michael Burry. The USSR collapse was a complete surprise because there was little to no transparency from the Soviets. What's interesting is China is brewing its own financial crisis and there's very little transparency just like with the Soviets. U.S. capitalism's dysfunction is easy to critique because transparency means we see all of its parts, including the warts. Transparency is a feature. With China, they're attempting to do some sort of manipulation of their LGFVs (local government financing vehicles) hidden debt. Nobody knows the details because there's little transparency with these LGFVs. But it appears increasingly like the world is witnessing a 1929/1991/2008 moment in China brewing.

  • @bobiel9048
    @bobiel9048 Месяц назад

    Society 5.0 - Super Smart Society
    What is Society 5.0?
    One definition: "A human-centered society that balances economic advancement with the resolution of social problems by a system that highly integrates cyberspace and physical space."
    Japan aims to become the first country in the world to achieve a human-centered society (Society 5.0) in which anyone can enjoy a high quality of life full of vigor. It intends to accomplish this by incorporating advanced technologies in diverse industries and social activities and fostering innovation to create new value.

  • @macrosense
    @macrosense Месяц назад

    The 2008 financial crisis was nearly inevitable. Especially given the previous 7years. However, it was mostly fixed within a short period of time. The United States did not collapse like the Soviet Union, nor did it go through a Great Depression.

  • @childsname7294
    @childsname7294 2 месяца назад

    At 12:00, Zhang is being very insightful when he is interrupted by Yanis.

  • @JCSY1
    @JCSY1 2 месяца назад

    China indeed has it's own way and style which is far better than the US and western style. It is because of this unique style that China can grow to what it is today and will continue to grow further in the future.

    • @cromagn1n
      @cromagn1n Месяц назад

      It’s literally in economic crisis. You will bottom out your rates and be on economic life support for decades like Japan. You have peaked, dont be the last person to leave the party.

    • @JCSY1
      @JCSY1 Месяц назад

      @cromagn1n China is China, Japan is Japan. Japan fails partly because it follows the US and will never be allowed to surpass the US anyway. China does not follow the US. It is very much capable of standing on its own. At the same time, China is more than 10 times bigger than Japan in terms of population wise and many times bigger in terms of country wise. It also has a GDP of more than 4 times bigger than Japan. China doesn't rely nor need to depend on the US market. It's domestic market alone is huge enough to sustain itself. The world needs China very much more than they need Japan.or even the US. That and many more things indicate China will overtake the US very soon. It will become the number 1 superpower economically very soon and even in the military in the near future. It is what it is and no amount of fake propaganda and false facts can change this.
      China hasn't even peaked yet, when it peaks, it will overrun the US from miles away. 😂

  • @Luxflux777
    @Luxflux777 2 месяца назад +1

    Wasn't aware china saved anyone.

  • @apollothirteen9236
    @apollothirteen9236 2 месяца назад

    The only way to save the U.S is to stop taxing rich people and their corporations & quadruple taxes on the middle, working class and the poor. All entitlement spending should be redirected to rich people to stop inflation.

  • @entertainmentjoke2871
    @entertainmentjoke2871 2 месяца назад +2

    Nobody will save a predator.

  • @bobiel9048
    @bobiel9048 Месяц назад

    On globalization...
    'Economical liberalization - yes.
    Political liberalization - no.'
    - Deng Xiaoping
    Recall Citizens United now.

  • @GPS509
    @GPS509 2 месяца назад +5

    After Richard D. Wolff
    Yanis is the second brilliant economist

  • @bryanlee7295
    @bryanlee7295 Месяц назад

    Wow rarely i ever hear soneone say China saved America in 2008, except my university lecturer. 😮🎉

  • @shahirshaik2477
    @shahirshaik2477 2 месяца назад

    How beautifully explained in one button they destroyed money countries lucky India also survived in 2008 crises due to our well knowned economist and PM manmohan singh ji

  • @duprog
    @duprog 2 месяца назад

    Trade is only good as long as you trade goods !
    As soon as you trade your goods for a promise, which any fiat currency is, you're going to loose any control and most likely your capacity to produce those goods. The only way to protect yourself is to trade those promises for real goods asap before they lose their value. Basically, screw somebody else before they do it to you.

  • @magicsmurfy
    @magicsmurfy 2 месяца назад

    So true, even though I am a capitalist. Nothing here says it is right or wrong, it is just the way it works for the world now (setforth by United States of course)

  • @JL88
    @JL88 2 месяца назад

    Brilliant

  • @NO-LIVAS
    @NO-LIVAS 2 месяца назад

    The whole America can't build bridges comment hits different after what happened in st Louis a few months ago

  • @Muh.khalif990
    @Muh.khalif990 2 месяца назад

    3:31 Mr. Bean cars, i had just noticed it after rewatching.

  • @hrs.ai2018
    @hrs.ai2018 18 дней назад

    Why would you save someone that would backstab yourself from the left at the same time asking for assist from the right

  • @gregp7379
    @gregp7379 2 месяца назад

    So whats the solution ?

  • @vietimports
    @vietimports 10 дней назад

    china is having its own 2008 moment

  • @harbinger6562
    @harbinger6562 2 месяца назад

    Wow Mr Yanis biting the Hands that feed them ❤️🇬🇷🇨🇳🦾😇👋

    • @henryyip1
      @henryyip1 2 месяца назад +1

      Yanis Varoufakis One of the Greatest Thinkers of our Time

  • @marcuswalters8093
    @marcuswalters8093 2 месяца назад

    1:42 😮 Oh my God.

  • @JenHope118
    @JenHope118 2 месяца назад

    Yup, no more safety net.

  • @jomo2483
    @jomo2483 2 месяца назад +1

    Intriguing, I think the third world holds the key for the future of capitalism

  • @stephenwilliams9570
    @stephenwilliams9570 2 месяца назад

    Sounds like philosophy. I just took a train from New York to Washington and it never broke down. I only had to walk out the door of the train station to my bus.

    • @puzzled012
      @puzzled012 2 месяца назад

      google highspeed railway metrics for US and compare it with China...

  • @mmmhorsesteaks
    @mmmhorsesteaks 2 месяца назад

    Listen, as much as I love Yannis, saying capitalism ended in 2008, 16 years ago, lacks self-awareness somewhat.
    Capitalism used to be quite good; it's going to becomme less and less good for the people who have to endure it. That is all - there will be no "great reset" or cultural revolution or whatever.

  • @gregtriplex5878
    @gregtriplex5878 2 месяца назад

    is China can save Cuba, to secure trading road and banking system for Cuba?

  • @kennethhymes9734
    @kennethhymes9734 2 месяца назад

    The context you leave out, as in all of your talks, is the constraint placed on all of this going forward by the place itself.There is no consideration of the loss as part of the history, nor as current experience for vast numbers of people. you look comfy in those chairs. that situation won’t last

  • @fooballers7883
    @fooballers7883 2 месяца назад +1

    So correct....I lived through it all... from 50s till today...Uk is today borrowing even more... already a basket case...soon a third world

  • @groovy3443
    @groovy3443 2 месяца назад

    God is good