11 OCTOBER 1986, page 29

City And Suburban

Creating the party piece for Nigel as the proud pound rides low CHRISTOPHER FILDES S cene: a smoke-filled room, furnished creatively with glass table, grass wallpaper, and......

To Pieces, Slowly

IT IS indeed a pleasure, or at least an instruction, to see the Bundesbank tun true to form. In the reign of Otmar Emminger Can optimistic central banker is one who believes......

Cheep, Cheap

I HOPE that your budgie got his allotment of TSB shares. He should sell them the moment he gets them, and that will keep him in birdseed. He will also have learned to think of......

Betting On Bankers

THERE is a new fashion in bank chair- men: bankers. I rather like it. First the Midland, after 60 years of assorted gran- dees, takes a banker from across the road. Now Barclays......