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Vanishing Trick A Nother Secret Weapon For The Chan-...

comes to li g ht in the unlikely armoury of Gomme Holdin g s, Which makes G-Plan chairs. Gomme has had a rou g h time, but the pension fund has done better than the company. Now......

Lazards' Nott L Azards' Chairman Ian Fraser Chides Me For My

note last week (`No, Sir John') about his bank and his successor-desi g nat e , Sir John Nott, the former Secretary of State for Defence. It was (I had said) unfortunate that......

Power Of The Press R Obert Maxwell Has Lon G Held A

licence to print money. He came by it when he took command of the British Printin g & Communications Corporation, our lar g est printin g g roup. BPCC owns Waterlow, the......

The Twenty-two Steps He Politics Of Privatisation Need...

handlin g — as witness that apostle of market freedom, Dr Madsen Pirie, of the Adam Smith Institute. His new study, Privatisation in theory and practice (Adam Smith Institute,......

City And

Shrinking money P oor sterlin g , poor all of us! The mar- kets seem to have lost their fear of the central banks' intervention. That psycholo- e?cal war will need to be fou g......