20 JANUARY 1967, page 26

The Future Of The Private Sector —2

VEE ECOKOMW A UNE allni By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT PHE private sector, I have said, has a more I subtle enemy than the doctrinaire or Marxist socialist. He is the reformer who argues......

Smoked Out

By JOHN BULL It is worth drawing up a balance sheet. On the credit side Imperial Tobacco has gained valuable evidence of the damage that abandonment of price maintenance would......

On The Carpet Consuming Interest

By LESLIE ADRIAN As carpets always figure in the sales, I thought I would pass on a timely collection of tips from one of London's oldest dealers in floor cover- ings,......

Market Notes

By CUSTOS E VERY Thursday is Bank rate day with the promise of a cut to at least 63 per cent. With interest rates falling in America, with the German Bank rate cut from 5 to 43......