George Varoufakis, 96 years old elite father
of Yanis Veroufakis
Chairman of the Board of Directors at
HALYVOURGIKI S.A. Shipping & Steel Empire
At one time for decades
George Varoufakis, born in Cairo,
father of Yanis, was one of the wealthiest shippers and steel tycoons of Greece
during its economic boom decades throughout its heyday under vibrant industrial
capitalism. His wife was very conservative (died in 2008),
some say she was right wing, in her politics. Yanis was their only child who
they spoiled immensely.
Yanis Veroufakis dumped his first Australian wife for an extravagantly rich
“princess” of the Athens arts Danae Stratou, who also is from a very wealthy
background. She met Yanis after his divorce
at a swanky dinner party. They fell in love. Now he lives in Athens with Stratou and her
two children (only child Yanis also had only one child, a daughter, with his
first Australian wife).
His 2nd wife, Danae Stratou was born
with a silver spoon and baby bottle plated with gold, just like little Yanis, and
she was the inspiration for the 1995 hit song, COMMON PEOPLE. The song
is a critique on those who were perceived as wanting to be "like common people" and who ascribe
glamour to poverty. This phenomenon
is often referred to as slumming or "class tourism". The song was
written by the band members Jarvis Cocker, Nick Banks, Candida Doyle, Steve
Mackey and Russell Senior.
Cocker had conceived the song after meeting a Greek art student (YANIS
VEROUVAKIS later 2nd wife!) while studying at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London (the
college and the student feature in the lyrics). He came up with the tune on a Casiotone keyboard he had bought in a music store in Notting Hill, west London. Common People was
typical Pulp – a biting satire of posh people ‘roughing it’ and acting like
tourists by hanging with the "common people". Jarvis delivered his
scathing putdown with glee, in an iconic music video featuring actress Sadie
Frost as the posho on the receiving end of Jarvis'
acid tongue."
Yanis Varoufakis' 2nd wife https://rosenfielddwc.com/site/article.php?tag=yanis-varoufakis%27-wife-2decd8
Yanis Varoufakis and his 2nd wife Danae
Stratou. Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis and
his wife have been coming under fire for appearing in a photo spread that shows
off their posh Athens home, with critics angry at their lavish lifestyle being
put on public display at a time when the entire suffering nation is on the verge of bankruptcy. Celebrity
Greek economist and politician Yanis Varoufakis, a kind of “leftist tourist”
like his wife, has urged his home country to grant asylum to Maria Efimova, the former Pilatus
Bank employee at the heart of the Egrant
allegations. One evening in May or June 2015, when the battle with the troika
had begun to hot up in earnest, Varoufakis and his elegant upper class wealthy
wife took a friend out to dinner in a posh Athens restaurant while the masses
protested against IMF “reforms” and trusted their Syriza movement not to let
them down. The economist Yanis Varoufakis called for a one-day boycott of
Amazon.com in a simple curtsy act of virtue-signaling, on Black Friday, as hungry Greek trade
unionists, environmental activists, privacy campaigners and tax justice
advocates plan coordinated actions against AMAZON's anti-union company’s sites and supply chain. Yanis
Varoufakis described how he, his wife Danae, and
their friend got ambushed while having a late dinner in Exarchia,
a trendy neighborhood in Athens. See our
fotos of the failed leftist heroes Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis
Varoufakis and his wife Danae Stratou
as they walked on the red carpet of the Venice Film Festival for the premiere
of the film “Adults in the Room,” together with director Costa-Gavras and the cast of the movie. Greek Finance Minister
Yanis Varoufakis said he and his wife, Danae, were
attacked by a group of hooded anarchists while they dined in central Athens
Tuesday night. (foto) His high society wife shields
Greece's Varoufakis from anarchist attack at restaurant .......Ms Stratou’s
father, Phaedon, was a wealthy industrialist and the
family ran one of Greece’s biggest textile firms. Yanis Varoufakis wanted
to study physics, but was forced to study economics. Once Yanis Varoufakis wife Danae Stratou was the subject of
Pulp's 1996 satirical anti elite hit "Common People."
George Varoufakis, 96 years old elite father
of Yanis Veroufakis
Chairman of the Board of Directors at
HALYVOURGIKI S.A. Shipping & Steel Empire
TROIKA of modern "neocon" based
global western economics:
--Christine Lagarde, IMF
--Gary Cohn, GOLDMAN SACHS
--William Dudley, FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF NY
He
has long described himself as a 'Libertarian '. He was born in the .1% with a
large silver serving spoon in his mouth and in a royal 24 carat gilded bed. His
family (he is, by his father’s lineage, Greek-Egyptian) has owned and run one
of the biggest and wealthiest shipping and steel industries in Greece (Halyvourgiki, Greece's biggest steel producer. His father was last check
still at the age of 90, Chairman of Halyvourgiki's
Board of Directors).
He has lived outside of Greece longer than he has inside, his secondary
education and university years were in Her Majesty’s Britain. He then traveled
on to Australia to teach game theory, the mathematical study of decision-making
and of conflict and strategy in social situations, and classical economics, for
many years in Australia, as an Australian citizen. His PhD dissertation was in
economics using mathematical game theory analysis of industrial strikes in
UK/USA along with models of wage inflation. Game theory
is based on a very unrealistic assumption that the motives of players are all
fixed and they are all selfishly motivated, as is Varoufakis. Varoufakis is a
darling of the free market enthusiasts at The Adam Smith Institute, and also
publicly admired by Bloomberg media as "brilliant". His only political office held in his entire
life was as secretary of the Black Students Alliance at the UK’s University of
Essex (even though he’s white). Varoufakis has described himself as an "accidental
economist". He is perhaps even more an accidental Center-Leftist. He has also described himself as an “erratic
Marxist”, when perhaps he was pinpointing his loyalty to a cause as “erratic”
at best. Why would a man like this give
up a seemingly conservative successful past lifestyle, i.e. everything, to win
a Syriza revolt on behalf of normal Greek people he has not even lived with for
long? The American actor James Dean rode a motorcycle also in a black leather
jacket, but was quite short sighted and needed very strong eyeglasses to read
the handwriting on the wall, something Yanis has dramatically failed to do. By
stepping up just a few years ago to the plate representing 99.9% of the Greek
people -- imbued with their most unrestrained trust, with bases loaded and two
men out, he struck out with tail between his legs trotting away from the IMF
Troika with far LESS than the Greek workers had before his vain meddling, before
his historic sell-out betrayal of their trust.
It seems the day has come for Yanis Varoufakis to trade in his
motorcycle for a hot pink,
deluxe lady's gold-rimmed 2-stroke moped, and discontinue with
his fake Leftish interviews. Would anyone disagree?
Illuminating words of Prof. James Petras:
[note: Max
Keiser interviewed Yanis Varoufakis outdoors in
James Petras: "Syriza had promised to prioritize
humanitarian spending over austerity – raising the minimum wage, rehiring
public employees in health and education and raising pension payments.
After two weeks of servile groveling, the ‘re-formed’
Tsipras and Varoufakis prioritized
austerity – making debt payments and ‘postponing’ even the most meagre
anti-poverty spending. When the Troika lent the Syriza regime $2 billion to feed hungry Greeks, Tsipras
lauded his overseers and promised to submit a multi-billion euro list of
regressive ‘reforms’.
Syriza had
promised to re-examine the previous rightwing regime’s dubious privatization of
lucrative public enterprises and to stop on-going and future
privatizations. In government, Tsipras and Varoufakis
quickly disavowed that promise. They approved past, present
and future privatizations. In fact, they made overtures to
procure new privatization ‘partners’, offering lucrative tax
concessions in selling-out more public firms.
Syriza promised to tackle the depression level
unemployment (26% national, 55% youth) via public spending and reduced debt
payments. Tsipras and Varoufakis
dutifully met debt payments and did not allocate any funds to create
jobs!
Not only did Syriza continue the policies of
its rightwing predecessors, but also it did so in a
ludicrous style and substance: adopting ridiculous public
postures and demagogic inconsequential gestures. One day Tsipras would lay a wreath at the
gravesite of 200 Greek partisans murdered by the Nazis during WW II. The
next day he would grovel before the German bankers and concede to their demands
for budget austerity, withholding public funds from 2 million unemployed
Greeks.
One afternoon, Finance
Minister Varoufakis would pose for a
photo spread for Paris Match depicting him, cocktail in hand, on his penthouse terrace overlooking the
Acropolis; and several hours later he would claim to speak for
the impoverished masses!
Betrayal, deceit and demagogy all during the first two
months in office, Syriza has established a record in its conversion from a
leftist anti-austerity party to a conformist, servile vassal of the European
Union."
Yanis
Varoufakis – a 54 years old -Australian economist who served as
Minister of Finance of
Varoufakis
was born in Palaio Faliro to an affluent steel magnate father, who is chairman
of Halyvourgiki,
In
1978 at age 17, Varoufakis enrolled at the
Velvety advisor to, and then bulging jaw muscles critical of the Papandreou
government!
From
January 2004 to December 2006, Varoufakis served as economic advisor to
socialist George Papandreou, of whose government he was to become an ardent
critic a few years later.
In
October 2011, after receiving an email from Gabe Newell, CEO of Valve Software,
Varoufakis visited Valve's headquarters in
The
Adam Smith Institute, one of the leading free-market think tanks of the
ROBERT MUNDELL-- The Anglo
Fuehrer of the EURO's creation, was in the 1970s, a chief Reaganomics adviser
of the U.S. "supply side" theory; likewise, he laid the groundwork
for the introduction of the EURO through his pioneering work in USA and Canada
monetary dynamics for which he won the 1999 Nobel Prize in Economics. During
this time he served as a high paid economic consultant to the United Nations,
the IMF, the World Bank, the EC, the Federal Reserve Board, the U.S. Dept. of
Treasury, and the government of
His
predictions have proved HIGHLY
INACCURATE yet paradoxically deeply self serving his elite global circle.
Since
the 2008 Global Economic Crash --due to toxic financial derivatives, corrupted
hedge and poison pill funds, and risk insurance on credit default swaps,
distrust has spread throughout the western banking system, immersing Europe in
the cesspool of a sovereign-debt crisis which has led to the creation of the
European Financial Stability Facility, as well as other uncertain efforts aimed
unsuccessfully at stabilizing the EURO [which at one time was worth almost $2 for each 1 euro]. In July 2012, the euro fell below US$1.21 for the first time in two years, following concerns raised over Greek
debt and
