You seem to know a little bit about this gentleman than I (and the rest of HN probably) know, could you tell us more about his (correct) predictions ?
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-05-24/greeces-brai...
> By the end of 2011, Yanis Varoufakis was a celebrity. The director of the Ph.D. program in economics at the University of Athens, Varoufakis had been arguing for two years that Greece was insolvent and the country should default while staying in the euro region ... In 2006, Varoufakis gave a talk in Athens predicting a financial crisis that would start in U.S. real estate, move through Wall Street, and on to Greece.
His work regarding european crisis [2]
[1]:http://yanisvaroufakis.eu/2010/12/17/the-modest-proposal-in-... [2]:http://yanisvaroufakis.eu/euro-crisis/