Banking On Principles
WHAT do you do with central bank gover- nors when they descend on you for the weekend? Invite them to discuss the euro? Their hosts at the Hong Konotary Authori- ty had a far......
City And Suburban
Hong Kong offers oblations to Mammon blood sacrifices, but money preferred CHRISTOPHER FILDES Hong Kong The great Temple of Mammon is encased in bamboo scaffolding. Bits of the......
Gloom, Boom And Doom
A SNORT of disrespect for the reverend visitors — disbelief, even — comes from the gravel-voiced, pony-tailed, motor- cycling Marc Faber, alias Doctor Doom. The markets, he......
Out On A Wing
NOW that it has gone, I miss Hong Kong's city - centre airport. That 47 degree turn on the final approach — up a bit, George, mind the block of flats, right hand down, no,......
Whistling Pontiffs
SOME of Mammon's most eminent ser- vants have been called in to placate him. Hong Kong is (naturally) run by a chief executive, who has set up a non-executive board of business......
Lord, We Didna Ken
EVEN as they spoke, Hong Kong's bankers were wondering what they might be able to salvage from the wreck of Gitic, the Guang- dong International Trust & Investment Corporation,......
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