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pensions are the main source of income

There are 10 million Greeks living in Greece (falling fast due to emigration), organized in around 2.8 million households with a ‘relationship’ with the tax authorities.

Of those 2.8 million households, 2.3 million (and 3.5 million tax file numbers) have a debt to the tax authorities that they c…

—p.127 Adults in the Room: My Battle with the European and American Deep Establishment Winters of our discontent (6) by Yanis Varoufakis
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pensions are the main source of income

There are 10 million Greeks living in Greece (falling fast due to emigration), organized in around 2.8 million households with a ‘relationship’ with the tax authorities.

Of those 2.8 million households, 2.3 million (and 3.5 million tax file numbers) have a debt to the tax authorities that they c…

—p.127 Winters of our discontent (6) by Yanis Varoufakis
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apostate

his move was less an apostasy from PASOK’s socialists, his former crowd, and more a sign of what was to follow once the second bailout demanded a grand coalition government.

—p.70 Winters of our discontent (6) by Yanis Varoufakis
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creditors who did not really want their money back

Friends and journalists often ask me to describe the worst aspect of my negotiations with Greece’s creditors. Not being able to shout from the rooftops what the high and mighty were telling me in private was certainly frustrating, but worse was dealing with creditors who did not really want their m…

—p.23 Winters of our discontent (6) by Yanis Varoufakis
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creditors who did not really want their money back

Friends and journalists often ask me to describe the worst aspect of my negotiations with Greece’s creditors. Not being able to shout from the rooftops what the high and mighty were telling me in private was certainly frustrating, but worse was dealing with creditors who did not really want their m…

—p.23 Winters of our discontent (6) by Yanis Varoufakis