3 DECEMBER 1988, page 27

What Was A Fiver?

WHAT a sign of the inflationary times — on the National Westminster's cash machine, a chirpy sticker saying 'No £5 notes'. The machine will deal you £20 and £10 notes, but......

City And Suburban

Dear money blows across the Atlantic to blast US bid mania •1• CHRISTOPHER FILDES T hirteen per cent in London, 101/2 per cent in New York and still rising — dear money has now......

... And Bless Our Savers

HERE, the pinch of dear money will be felt differently. Not by the Government — it is paying off its debt at a rate of £10 billion a year. Companies, too, have been getting the......

Retaking The Biscuit

THE first prize in the RJR Nabisco auction is the Bath Oliver biscuit. This noble comestible, still stamped with the head of its inventor, Dr Oliver, and supplied by him to......