City And Suburban
Share-owning is too serious to be left to the Stock Exchange CHRISTOPHER FILDES I magine waiting for the Stock Exchange to make us a nation of shareholders! I'd rather wait for......
Girthist
ROBERT Maxwell, Nigel Lawson and I are all victims of girthism — a form of prejudice which is disagreeable when abu- sive, but can be more wounding when kindly meant. A striking......
Good Name For A Dog
GENERAL Accident is a good name for an insurance company which loses £101 million in six months. Here come the five big general insurers to report their half- yearly figures,......
Franchise For The Bank
BONAR Law as Chancellor settled an argument with the Bank of England by threatening to take the Government's account away and give it to the Midland Bank. Earlier Chancellors......
Governors' Power Play
THE oddest contribution to this debate is the suggestion — seriously put forward this week in support of an independent Bank of England — that it doesn't much matter whether the......
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