Not A Model
THESE meetings featured a shoot-out between Dr Mahathir and George Soros: insults for two and coffee for one. Dr Mahathir says that his tiger economy has been wounded by selfish......
Stout Party Revived
THE HEROES of the meetings are John Foulds and Mike Blackburne of the Halifax Bank (late building society). Like the rest of us, they had been looking forward to the party......
What Corruption Costs
ONE feature of the Asian model is that those in power can do very well out of it. That goes for the African model too, as the achievements of the late Mobutu Sese Seko can......
An Old Soldier Writes
IT IS high time that the IMF gave me a medal. It could use some of its gold, or give me one of its Special Drawings Rights, which it says are just as good as gold and easier to......
City And Suburban
Dearly beloved, we are gathered here to bow down in the house of Mammon CHRISTOPHER FILDES Hong Kong THE banker looked up at Hong Kong's ever-soaring skyline and gaped. 'You......
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