# The great Brexit myth & Germany’s industrial collapse

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Podcast: [The Econoclasts](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-econoclasts-6347002)
Published: 2026-06-30T23:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau debunk the popular orthodoxy surrounding Brexit, exposing the phoney statistics used to fabricate a narrative of British macroeconomic self-harm, while dissecting the existential reality of Germany's inevitable structural collapse through its automakers' loss of the critical AI and EV race to China. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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