After the world financial crisis of 2007/2008, Greece became the world’s Lehman Brothers. In 2010, France, Germany and all other major European economic forces tried to impose loans upon Greece that it could never pay back and, some Greeks claim, were really a way to bail out French and German banks.
According to former Greek finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, much of the money that the European banks were trying to get Greece to take was to cover up a series of lies that German Chancellor Angela Merkel had told her parliament in order to protect German banks and a circle of insiders who were, as Varoufakis tells WhoWhatWhy’s Jeff Schechtman, not the smartest guys in the room.
It’s a story that starts with the Greek economy and ends with Donald Trump.
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