City And Suburban

Farmers' ruin it's happened to the industry where governments think they know best CHRISTOPHER FILDES O f the three recognised ways of losing money, racing may be the quickest......

Short Circuit

THIS week, on the Chancellor's orders, the Bank of England sullenly unloaded another pile of the nation's gold. It would have done better to have kept the gold and lent it out.......

The Captain's Chrysler

ROBERT Maxwell came up before the Takeover Panel and its first director-gener - al, Ian Fraser, spotted a familiar face. Sure- ly this was Captain Maxwell, MC, who used to drive......

Soane Rangers

THE City continues to turn itself into a theme park, and the pillared banking hall of National Westminster's head office in Lothbury is now a gallery. (Well, we didn't really......

Notice To Quit

THE model for us to copy is New Zealand, which was such a good supplier to this coun- try until we joined the CAP and shut it out. In the end a market-minded government decided......

Liquid Assets

AN unexpected victim of the Princeton 'tiger is Edmond Safra, whose bank, Repub- lic New York, got too close to it and has been bitten. Republic pleads ignorance and disclaims......