9 JANUARY 1999, page 22

Efficient Markets

Efficient markets IT IS ABSURD, so Mr Whelan tells us, that we should be looking at him when we could be looking at the euro. After all, its makers have just abolished Europe's......

[there Goes Gordon Brown's Head...]

CITY AND SUBURBAN Brown's water-gardener gets his cards, and the Treasury gets back to normal CHRISTOPHER FILDES T here goes Gordon Brown's head water-gardener. Selectively......

No Time To Grumble

No time to grumble NOW I DARE say it will be the machine's turn. Having quarrelled with one permanent secretary, Mr Brown cannot afford to quarrel with another. Sir Andrew......

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Shake And Strain

Shake and strain SOMETHING else the Treasury forgot to tell me is that Income Tax is a cocktail. Six parts dry gin, four orange juice, one dry vermouth, one sweet vermouth, so......