The Worst Is Over
Until the Budget the hazard of short-term gains tax added to risk, since profits taken too soon, however big, were not always enough to pay back principal and interest (not......
Hard Bind
Not being able to get the Morning Star I was forced to glance at the new tiresome Guardian on Monday. There was a piece by Ian Woodward interviewing a pretty young woman, Josie......
Skinflint's City Diary Celebration Day
Sotheby's had an unremarkable sale of Modern British Drawings, Paintings and Sculpture on 7 April. I was glad to see the name of Horsman, M., against the purchase of a Philip......
Bringing Home The Bacon
Company promoter, Christopher 'Sell 'em' Selmes, twenty-two, stock and share man and head of the Drakes holding company, learned his trade from Mr Pat Matthews, who started by......
Dark Cloud
The charging of personal bank interest against personal taxation was disallowed (except so far as it might have been con- nected with house or land purchase) by the socialists......
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