As the crisis intensifies and Greeks dig even deeper into their pockets to pay off everything from alarmingly rising taxes to their looming loans, the emergence in this last year of pawnshops on every corner, online pawn banners and the hundreds of daily flyers claiming to "buy your gold" speaks volumes of the stark new reality.
Kriza se zaoštrava i Grci sežu sve dublje u džepove kako bi platili sve od zabrinjavajuće visokih poreza do rata kredita koje im prijete, a tijekom protekle godine je nicanje zalagaonica na svakom uglu, kao i stotine reklama i internetskih oglasa za zalagaonice i "otkup vašeg zlata" jasno ocrtalo grubu novu stvarnost.