Yes, the insiders wanted to let him in, but he refused: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/may/03/yanis-varoufakis-greece-greatest-political-memoir https:/

Yes, the insiders wanted to let him in, but he refused: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/may/03/yanis-varoufakis-greece-greatest-political-memoir https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/may/03/yanis-varoufak... He’s in Washington for a meeting with Larry Summers, the former US treasury secretary and Obama confidant. Summers asks him point blank: do you want to be on the inside or the outside? “Outsiders prioritise their freedom to speak their version of the truth. The price is that they are ignored by the insiders, who make the important decisions,” Summers warns.