{"podcast":{"title":"The Econoclasts","slug":"the-econoclasts-6347002","podcast_index_feed_id":6347002,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/644d3eb26d7c8a0011cf2a0b","website_url":"https://unherd.com/these-times","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/644d3eb26d7c8a0011cf2a0b/1761322833913-f149aced-c084-4770-9326-165ad0f06dcb.jpeg","author":"UnHerd Limited","episode_count":172,"summary":"The Econoclasts is a new podcast from UnHerd hosted by economist Yanis Varoufakis and journalist Wolfgang Munchau. While they don't always agree politically, they are united in one conviction: the consensus is rotten. Mainstream economics has consistently failed to predict the events that shape our world, yet this broken orthodoxy still dominates policy and media. Each week, they choose two pillars of the established orthodoxy — the \"settled facts\" — and shatter them, cutting through the spin to connect the dots between money, geopolitics, and the real forces shaping our future. Don't forget to rate, like and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-22T10:18:03.462666+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-econoclasts-6347002"},"episode":{"title":"Why gold and silver crashed & Trump’s Fed Chair pick","slug":"why-gold-and-silver-crashed-trump-s-fed-chair-pick","published_at":"2026-02-04T00:01:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-econoclasts-6347002/why-gold-and-silver-crashed-trump-s-fed-chair-pick","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-econoclasts-6347002","url":"https://shows.acast.com/these-times/episodes/why-gold-and-silver-crashed-trumps-fed-chair-pick","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/644d3eb26d7c8a0011cf2a0b/e/69823524c0f83f827c2d69df/media.mp3","summary":"Following a historic price crash for gold and silver after President Trump picked Kevin Warsh to lead the Federal Reserve, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau dismantle the orthodoxies surrounding the slump and connect the dots between Warsh’s Mar-a-Lago family ties, the toxic legacy of Quantitative Easing, and the inevitable shift toward fiscal dominance, exposing why the crash is a symptom of a dying central banking era and a warning of the dollar debasement yet to come. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"Following a historic price crash for gold and silver after President Trump picked Kevin Warsh to lead the Federal Reserve, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang M…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2012,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-econoclasts-6347002/episodes/why-gold-and-silver-crashed-trump-s-fed-chair-pick/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-econoclasts-6347002/why-gold-and-silver-crashed-trump-s-fed-chair-pick.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}