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I'm the finance minister of a bankrupt country!

Yanis Varoufakis

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Yanis Varoufakis
Age: 54
Economist
Finance Minister Of Greece
Non-Fiction Writer
Politician
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University Teacher
Ioannis Varoufakis
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Bankrupt
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Finance

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