Shopping Around
UNTIL NOW that idea had been looking less and less attractive. Bank depositors large and small, offered rates of interest that barely kept their money warm, shopped around for......
City And Suburban
A cold blast from the Federal Reserve blows through the world's markets CHRISTOPHER FILDES lie weather is coming from here and not just the snow. One cold blast from the Federal......
Lawyers V. Directors
A NEW hazard for chairmen and directors here is to be sued for retroactive fraud. This happens when they say something that puts the share price down. Shareholders then demand......
Paper Patterns
THERE IS something familiar about the Essex House, my hotel here. It reminds me of the partners' dining room at Hambros Bank. That room's chief glory is its painted wallpaper —......
Remote Control
I LIKE it here, so I think I shall stay on and get myself a part-time job as a company chairman. A British company, of course. It would have a London head office, but I wouldn't......
Crossed Line
THAT PORTABLE telephones are a bane of modern life is a point on which I am happy to concur with the previous Chancel- lor. He taxed them. President Clinton has made them a......
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