… My friend Claire looks at her boyfriend and shakes her head. Michel is working in one of France’s biggest banks, in the middle office – he is overlooking other people’s activities (after Jérôme Kerviel not the worst thing to do).

When people are in constant contact with money, their relationship to that medium of exchange changes somehow: „Most of us spend a lot of their time on clickoptions„, Michel tells us. „There you can bet on the evolution of a stock option – it’s a lot of fun!“

„Expensive fun“, adds Claire slightly exasperated. Then she tells me about her next holidays – in Rome and on the island La Réunion. Let’s just hope that clickoptions won’t eat up their whole holiday budget till then …

L.