Yanis Varoufakis (Greek: Γιάνης Βαρουφάκης; born 24 March 1961)[2] is a Greek economist. He is the current finance minister of Greece.[3] In the January 2015 general election, he was elected to the Greek parliament, representing SYRIZA,[4] and took office in the new government of Alexis Tsipras two days later, on 27 January 2015.[5] He is a political economist, professor, and author, and has dual Greek-Australian nationality.
Starting at minute 21, he explains how Kissinger asked Paul Volcker to devise a plan to retain an economic hegemony and its empire despite its deficit, which is also the subject of his book, The Global Minotaur.