18 NOVEMBER 2000, page 52

Gricer Blows Off

MY railway correspondent, I.K. Gricer, telephones to say that he is on a train. He is marooned outside York with a party from the Bank of Scotland. Their opposite num- bers from......

Packing The Fed

THE new President of the United States, assuming that there is one, will have many worries and one opportunity. He can set out to pack the Federal Reserve Board. This was meant......

Ego In Arcadia

THE genial John Hoemer has been expelled from Arcadia, and must regret picking this name for the string of fashion chains he took away from Burtons. It owns Top Shop and Dorothy......

City And Suburban

His bank wants to price me out of the market, so I've a Beaune to pick with Wim CHRISTOPHER FILDES A fact-finding visit to Beaune encour- ages me to believe that I can see the......

Design Fault

WIM Duisenberg's trouble is that the euro is a currency without a country. The euro- zone has no chancellor or prime minister who can be invited to choose between tight- ening......

Seeing Double

RESEARCH note: restaurant bills (and other bills) in France come with two totals, in francs and in euros. At the end of a good lunch it is is easy to mistake the second total......