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Valve's Economist Yanis Varoufakis Appointed Greece's Finance Minister

Posted by timothy on from the finger-on-all-the-buttons dept.

eldavojohn writes A turnover in the Greek government resulted from recent snap elections placing SYRIZA (Coalition of the Radical Left) in power — just shy of an outright majority by two seats. Atheist, and youngest Prime Minister in Greek history since 1865, Alexis Tsipras has been appointed the new prime minister and begun taking immediate drastic steps against the recent austerity laws put in place by prior administrations. One such step has been to appoint Valve's economist Yanis Varoufakis to position of Finance Minister of Greece. For the past three years Varoufakis has been working at Steam to analyze and improve the Steam Market but now has the opportunity to improve one of the most troubled economies in the world.

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  1. Badges by space_jake · · Score: 5, Funny

    EU trading cards to the rescue!

    1. Re:Badges by netsavior · · Score: 4, Funny

      And hats, hats, as far as the eye can see!

  2. All we have to do by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...is farm more gold. That'll solve all of our economic woes!

  3. Valve's time by Kinwolf · · Score: 4, Funny

    If he's working on "Valve's time", then he'll produce the first draft about possible solutions around 10 years after Greece has ceased to exist as a country.

  4. Soon: Greece abandons the Euro by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    and transitions to a diversified, hat-based economy.

  5. Radical Left allowed to run a country... by mi · · Score: 4, Funny

    What can possibly go wrong?

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