{"id":3406,"date":"2017-06-19T12:52:55","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T10:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.actvism.org\/?p=3406"},"modified":"2020-11-06T17:48:54","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T16:48:54","slug":"yanis-varoufakis-bankruptocracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/politics\/yanis-varoufakis-bankruptocracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Bankruptocracy &#8211; How Bankrupt Banks Rule the Economy Today  | Explained by Yanis Varoufakis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row justify-content-md-center\">\n<div class=\"col-md-8 pb-3\">\n<p><strong>Bankruptocracy &#8211; How Bankrupt Banks Rule the Economy Today\u00a0 | Explained by Yanis Varoufakis<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>In this video we talk to the\u00a0founder of the <a href=\"https:\/\/diem25.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Democracy in Europe Movement 2025<\/a>, author &amp; former finance minister of Greece, Yanis Varoufakis,\u00a0about\u00a0the financial crisis of 2008\u00a0and how it paved the way for a new global regime called Bankruptocracy.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>VIDEO: Bankruptocracy &#8211; How Bankrupt Banks Rule the Economy Today<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bankruptocracy - How Bankrupt Banks Rule the Economy Today  | Explained by Yanis Varoufakis\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jlW9DCRQeiE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>To view our entire video playlist with Yanis Varoufakis &amp; DiEM25, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLhxITUni9OWfCYbsCcTSm98MhcLqR0wcn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Donate today to support independent &amp; non-profit media!<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/donate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here<\/a> or on the picture below:<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/donate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1283 size-large alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Banner-Spende-Webseite_E-1024x342.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Banner-Spende-Webseite_E-1024x342.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Banner-Spende-Webseite_E-300x100.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Banner-Spende-Webseite_E-700x233.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Banner-Spende-Webseite_E.jpg 1418w\" alt=\"Banner Spende Webseite_E\" width=\"640\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>About Yanis Varoufakis &amp; DiEM25<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Varoufakis.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3324 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Varoufakis-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Yanis Varoufakis is a professor of Economic Theory at the University of Athens, former finance minister of Greece and founder of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25). Varoufakis is also the author of several books on the European debt crisis, the financial imbalance in the world and game theory.<\/p>\n<p>DiEM25 is a pan-European, cross-border movement of democrats that is focused on addressing the economic and social problems faced by Europe today. It provides an alternative to austerity policies that it\u00a0 argues are dividing the continent and fueling the rise of \u201cinternational nationalists\u201c.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this video we talk to the founder of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025, author &#038; former finance minister of Greece, Yanis Varoufakis, about the financial crisis of 2008 and how it paved the way for a new global regime called Bankruptocracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,14],"tags":[],"channel":[],"class_list":["post-3406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-politics"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.0","language":"en","enabled_languages":["de","en"],"languages":{"de":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true}}},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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