4 AUGUST 1984, page 16

Keg Brokers

W anted: a Campaign for Real Brokers. The stock market is going the way of the pubs. Too many free houses are falling, tied, into the hands of the suppliers, who will cause them......

Box Wallahs

rr he underwriters of Lloyd's of London insure the world from their boxes which are something between schoolroom benches and tall squirearchical pews. The inmates add their......

Capital For Marx

T et Jaguar roar off. Don't hang on for L./Telecom. The jolliest prospectus now going round the City is designed to float a new club - The Groucho Club London PLC. Guidehouse,......

City And

Invest and insure T he World Bank is one of Keynes's better ideas, which is saying some- thing. It lends in the world's developing countries, at no cost to the rest of us. It is......