# Trump vs. Merz & how London broke Britain

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Podcast: [The Econoclasts](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-econoclasts-6347002)
Published: 2026-05-05T23:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/these-times/episodes/germany
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## Resource

🔗Get your tickets for The Econoclasts Live with Hasan Piker here: http://unherd.com/econoclastslive In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau debunk the myth of European strategic sovereignty and the lie at the heart of the City of London, exposing how Germany’s failure to innovate within its declining car industry leaves it defenceless against Trump’s revenge tariff assault, while the UK’s ‘finance curse’ has replaced productive industrial investment with a parasitic reliance on property speculation and shareholder payouts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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