"Artur Metaj made his first drachmas in 1991 selling Bermuda shorts to US soldiers stationed in Athens, capital of a country that offered Albanians like Metaj their first taste of capitalism after the collapse of four decades of Communist rule.
Metaj opened a hair salon, hired 14 people and was joined in Greece by an estimated 500,000 or more Albanians sending money home in the form of remittances – long a staple of the Albanian economy.
But after the debt crisis broke in 2009, Metaj's generous tips started to dry up, and his regular clients asked for credit."
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