The Gnomes Of Ec2

ALL THIS has come a godsend to our great banks. They are getting nowhere with their basic business, lending money — in the first half of this year. National West- minster had £2......

. . . And Currency

Now that the Franc Fort has submitted to its destiny and turned into Or Dur, I have learned of a new French proverb, the equivalent of 'All that glisters is not gold': Tout ce......

Hard Cop, Soft Cop

WE FOUND that out earlier. How furious we were — or rather, how angry our Trea- sury ministers were — with that horrid Hel- mut Schlesinger and his beastly Bundes- bank, which......

City And Suburban

Ever closer union wider still and wider shall thy bands be set CHRISTOPHER FILDES T his really is open season for shooting my foxes. First Norman Lamont, then Jacques Attali,......

For King . . .

THE CRISIS, I must say, has had its moments. One of them came late on Sun- day, when, with time ticking out for a solu- tion, the Far Eastern markets about to wake up, and the......

The Told-you-so Club

HOW MANY people, starting with the Chancellor, now claim to have told you so! In this club, which was so exclusive for so long, all I can claim is to be a founder- member. When......