{"id":9163,"date":"2015-06-17T06:09:07","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T11:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9163"},"modified":"2015-06-17T06:09:36","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T11:09:36","slug":"whats-next-in-the-greek-farce-and-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9163","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s Next in the Greek Farce and Why"},"content":{"rendered":"

What\u2019s Next in the Greek Farce and Why<\/a><\/h3>\n

The Man They Hate with a Passion<\/strong><\/p>\n

Euro area politicians and IMF bureaucrats really hate Yanis Varoufakis\u2019 guts with a passion. The media are full with denunciations of the man as \u201cunprofessional\u201d, negotiators of the euro-group\u00a0let it be known<\/a>\u00a0(anonymously, natch) that \u201cit got to the point where eyes roll<\/em>\u201d, that they were \u201csick and tired of being lectured about austerity and the effects of the crisis<\/em>\u201d, in short, it was \u201cimpossible to do business with him\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Why do they hate him so much? Allegedly ,\u201cany sympathy for Greece was eroded by his failure to draft concrete proposals.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>Typical Mediterranean lazy bum is the message, in other words. Big on vacuous emoting, but doesn\u2019t want to waste time on doing his homework (plus, he wears no tie\u2026you have to be clad in the technocratic uniform if you want to be taken seriously).<\/p>\n

\"varoubike\"The eurocrats really hate this one. They\u2019re probably all trying to\u00a0channel Tony G<\/a>\u00a0when they meet Varoufakis.<\/p>\n

Photo credit:\u00a0Alkis Konstantinidis \/ Reuters<\/span><\/p>\n

Forgive us if our BS meter starts twitching when they are quoting unnamed officials with such pronouncements all over the mainstream press and are hammering the message home with unwavering regularity on Europe\u2019s state-controlled TV stations. The reality is probably this: they hate him because he isn\u2019t one of them.<\/p>\n

Varoufakis is no politician, and apparently has no intentions of becoming one. His economic views may be a bit blue-eyed given his alliance with a bunch of lefties, but where and when has he said anything about the Greek situation that was not substantially correct?<\/p>\n

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What\u2019s Next in the Greek Farce and Why The Man They Hate with a Passion Euro area politicians and IMF bureaucrats really hate Yanis Varoufakis\u2019 guts with a passion. The media are full with denunciations of the man as \u201cunprofessional\u201d, negotiators of the euro-group\u00a0let it be known\u00a0(anonymously, natch) that \u201cit got to the point where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[195,200,279,284,1167,418,434,2921],"class_list":["post-9163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-debt","tag-default","tag-eu","tag-european-union","tag-greece","tag-imf","tag-international-monetary-fund","tag-yanis-varoufakis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9163"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9165,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9163\/revisions\/9165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}