Nuevas analogías entre Grecia y la crisis Argentina del 2001 comenta una reciente nota de CSMonitor. Así como en Argentina surgieron los clubes del trueque que, eventualmente, crearon su propia moneda, en un pueblo de Grecia se da una situación similar.
Five years into their recession, with 21 percent unemployment, some Volos residents who were short on Euros but long on other resources created a local currency (called TEMs in Greek) that is traded based on nonmonetary contributions into the online system.