7 AUGUST 1999, page 20

Lombard Life

I AM sorry that Matt Barrett, Barclays' new chief executive from Montreal, is not bringing the Mark II Mrs Barrett with him. When I met her she was wearing a ball-gown, but her......

The One-trick Pony

THE Federal Reserve Bank of New York has a sideline in publishing comics, and I can say that The Story of the Federal Reserve Sys- tem is a worthy successor to Too Much, Too......

Sell Signal

EXCHANGES are falling over each other to turn into companies. Australia's Stock Exchange is already quoted on itself and has bid (unsuccessfully) for the Sydney Futures......

City And Suburban

Goodbye to the Throgmorton Street club I can't wait to knock it down CHRISTOPHER FILDES I have few ambitions left in the City, but I was there when the Queen opened the Stock......

Productive Paradigm?

YOU know how the new information tech- nology is making us all more productive? How it has rewritten economic laws and her- alded a brave new paradigm where growth can last for......

It's Just A Pain

APPLYING this to his own working week, Stephen Roach finds that it includes six hours attributable to the dead weight of the information age (computer boot-up and shutdown: one......