On Merrett
I ALWAYS expected to see Stephen Mer- rett as Chairman of Lloyd's, and I dare say he did too. His father was a hero of Lloyd's, and he himself led the market and stood on his......
Small Town In Germany
THE CITY of London has pitched for Europe's central bank in rather the same way that the City of Manchester has pitched for the Olympics. The campaign has been a good......
Told You So
THIS WEEK'S candidate for the Told- You-So Club is Robin Angus of County NatWest (or, as he and I might prefer to call it, Wood Mackenzie.) 'The rate chosen for sterling's entry......
City And Suburban
One year on, we still have a policy that fits like a bell-tent CHRISTOPHER FILDES T his time last year we had an economic policy. In fact, we had two, both wrong, with the......
Capital, Capital
KENNETH CLARICE has to start some- where, but the cash freeze he proposes for public sector pay is a ragged start at best. This Government works on the over-simple notion that......
Mad Wednesday
THE DAY when the old policy collapsed was at once terrifying and crazy. A friend of mine knew the jig was up when he saw a high official of the Bank of England, beck- oned by......
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