It is like only one of the finance ministers involved knows what he is doing.

That almost certainly is indeed the case. Amongst the rest are, at best, a few who have a decent understanding of the conventional ways of operating a currency system. I don't think there are any who have a synoptic view of the whole field of economics that even starts to compare with that of Varoufakis, who is at home doing comparative analyses of different economic theories and systems and then getting involved in actual applications. He is a two eyed man in a kingdom of the blind. Please rebut have I done any other ministers an injustice.

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