Yanis Varoufakis' first interview since resigning

Re:Yanis Varoufakis' first interview since resigning by nisa on Monday July 13, 2015 @07:26AM (#9877419)

> And their recovery was underway

This considered bullshit by at least Hans-Werner-Sinn and Flassbeck - 2 economists that usually don't share a lot of opinions.

Also austeritiy didn't work and made things worse: http://www.interfluidity.com/uploads/2015/07/Greekovery.png

The new government wanted to change that.

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Re:Yanis Varoufakis' first interview since resigning by claudius on Monday July 13, 2015 @07:30AM (#9877436)

Greek GDP was grossly overinflated in 2008 by overspending in the public sector. Compared to 1990, Greece still grew 80% points more than e.g. France until 2014, so they really don’t have much to complain about.

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Re:Yanis Varoufakis' first interview since resigning by dpark on Monday July 13, 2015 @10:32AM (#9878278)

> they really don’t have much to complain about.

Really? I'd complain quite a bit about a 25% GDP drop, regardless of whether it was "overinflated" to start with.

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Re:Yanis Varoufakis' first interview since resigning by jugad on Monday July 13, 2015 @03:03PM (#9880264)

Is the 2014 figure for Greece its real GDP without the overinflation?

If that is the case, we can simply inflate it up and problem solved.

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