20 JUNE 1992, page 27

Weatherstone's Law...

ONTO MY desk flops a stockbroker's note on J.P. Morgan, the bank that bankers most admire. The broker disagrees: 'We do not consider Morgan to be a strong beneficiary of a......

Jacques, Robin, Helmut

IT WAS FUN to watch Europe's central bank governors on the day the Danes sprung their mine under monetary union. Jacques de Larosiere (Banque de France) was all for going......

City And Suburban

Freedom from Maxwell cheap at the price of a case of Bollinger CHRISTOPHER FILDES I t was late, and I was, as I thought, alone in the industrial slum which then served the Daily......

Down, Neddy

NEDDY outlived its usefulness by 30 years — that is, ever since the day it was born. As a cosy, chummy name for a portentous quango, the National Economic Develop- ment Council,......

... Morgan's Tapestry

ON MY WAY to the house of Morgan I called at J.P. Morgan's house — the som- bre midtown mansion, now a museum, where the great financier would do business amid his Florentine......