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Greece's 'rockstar' finance minister walked away from an interview when asked if he's becoming a liability
Yanis Varoufakis, Greece's rockstar finance minister, is in hot water. The anti-austerity economics professor who is now running Greece's finance ministry said this weekend that he regretted the photo shoot he did for Paris Match. Pictures of the finance minister's eating and drinking wine with his wife on their roof terrace provoked mockery on social media. But Varoufakis also had two cringe-worthy interviews over the weekend. Things started to go badly when CNBC asked him whether he had become a liability to the Greek government. You can watch the whole video, and there's a transcript below. CNBC: You've taken some ... (full story)
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