'Cause it's easier to get every other country in the world to regulate currency trading than it is to run an economy that's tempting to short against?

Actually, he's not joking.

There are riots on the streets.

And the European business news is taking what he says very very seriously.

fela kuti was not the best lyricist.

but, to be fair, Greece always has been an economic basket case, at least since WW II.