A reality TV guide to mortgages

THE Apprentice is back, with Sir Alan Sugar hiring and firing would-be business executives in the reality television show that makes living with Z-list celebrities in the jungle look restful. But is real business like The Apprentice, with uber-competitive young entrepreneurs routinely claiming to be the best salesmen in the universe and doing everything they can to get their colleagues fired while performing silly selling games? Surely not.

Sir Alan: Here is your first task. I want you to go out and sell mortgages to people with no income, yet still make a fat profit.

Boy apprentice: That's impossible.

Sir Alan: Of course it is. You're fired.

Girl apprentice: I've got it. We pr...