Inflationary Birthday. . .
A MUTED 20th birthday party for our decimal currency. At the Daily Telegraph, the anniversary was marked by increasing the price from seven shillings a copy to eight. On the eve......
Fundamentalist
I WONDER how the dollar can live down to the expectations of Bluford Putnam, chief economist of Kleinwort Benson. He sends me his review of the markets, headed: 'Dollar defining......
City And Suburban
Poll tax: my modest proposal for curing fiscal myxomatosis CHRISTOPHER FILD ES W hat we need now, and what I now propose, is a cure for the poll tax. The Heseltine laboratories......
Pay As You Choose
NO RATES, no poll tax, no local taxes at all — what a good idea, and why didn't we think of it earlier? It would do wonders for inflation, as measured by the Retail Prices......
. . . And Four-shilling Hero
THE man who got it right was John de Loynes of the Bank of England. While his colleagues were busily making our curren- cy decimal, he was advising The Gambia to set up its......
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