Yanis Varoufakis is the new finance minister of Greece, after the far-left party Syriza won a resounding victory in Greece last week. Before being elected to parliament and named finance minister, Varoufakis was an economics professor and regular blogger. His site is called “Thoughts for our post-2008 world,” and it generally focuses on the economics of Europe in, predictably, a post-2008 world. His new role has not kept him from blogging. On Thursday, he took on the media’s reporting of Syriza’s stance on Russian sanctions. Here’s a little background: On Tuesday, Greece refused to sign on to …read more
Source: Business Insider
