Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: There is a high-stakes international battle going on right now. On one side is Greece, on the other side, basically the rest of Europe. Greece is trying to renegotiate the bailout deal it agreed to after the financial crisis. There have been high-level meetings, lots of back and forth, temporary extensions. In the middle of this is an unusual man, Greece's new finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis. Varoufakis doesn't talk like a politician. In fact, a few years ago, he was working for a video game company. Here is David Kestenbaum with our Planet Money team. DAVID KESTENBAUM, BYLINE: I first heard about Varoufakis in a kind of funny way a couple years ago. My colleague, Chana Joffe Walt, was interviewing this Greek couple. The woman hadn't been paid in months and the guy, Elias Teelegadas, mentioned that he had a kind of economic hero, a guy who shared his view that the bailout, with all its austerity measures, was killing the
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