20 AUGUST 1988, page 22

Insider Bidding

THE excoriation of the teeny-bopper share dealers (for whom, we are told, sacking isn't bad enough) set me turning to Skid Simon's masterpiece, Why You Lose at Bridge. 'I hold......

Tower Block

BLACK edging should surround the card which now tells me that at the end of this month Hambros are going to the Tower. It is not that those civilised bankers are for the chop,......

Tim Was Right

HOW I shall miss my pale-green weekly note from Tim Congdon. The sage of Shearson thinks that 12 years is enough. He has tirelessly warned us where the surge in bank lending and......

City And Suburban

News from a time-slip: we must have done something right CHRISTOPHER FILDES I was submitting myself to the soothing influence of the Bank of England's atmos- phere and prose......

More Of The Medicine

EFFICIENCY, the economists explained in their coded language, had something to do with it. Britain's share of world trade in finished goods has been rising since 1984, and......