31 DECEMBER 1994, page 20

City And Suburban

The British hangover delivers the goods austerity, frugality, eternity CHRISTOPHER FILDES I am not sure that what we need now is a sobering thought, but here goes: hangovers can......

Broken Reed

A ROTTEN Christmas for Mark Reed. He has lost his livelihood. Mr Reed was a director of the (rotten) Levitt Group. The Securities and Investment Board thinks that present and......

The First Lesson

YOU WANT to overdraw, or to mortgage your house or insure your life? Goodness, how old-fashioned you must be. What you are is a potential member of a delineated socio-economic......

Monty And Maurice

A BAD year for investment was, by defini- tion, a good year for the Bad Investment Guide. Advertising agencies, the Guide says, do not need outside capital and blow it if they......

Mexican Bargain

FOR AN example of how not to do it, I look with confidence to Mexico. President Zedil- lo's government, in office for a month, ran into heavy weather and has cast the peso......

On The Cards

SIR WILLIAM Harcourt was, so I learn from the Treasury's Christmas card, the man who laid down that ministers exist to tell the Civil Service what the public wil l not stand.......