The world needs French lessons (Financial Times)
BySimon Kuper Published: December 4 2010 01:12 | Last updated: December 4 2010 In summer 2008 we found an apartment in Paris. But getting a mortgage was tricky. French banks wanted proof that we’d be able to keep paying no matter what. We showed them some shares. Shares can fall, they scoffed. Then a bank sent me to a cardiologist. He turned me inside out, and was...