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A trade deficit in chief executives
One of the oft-repeated excuses for high executive pay is the need to compete for top talent in an international market. A scan through a list of...
Spectator, The, 11/14/09 by Northedge, Richard · More from publication -
Who wants to be a FTSE chairman?
ITV shareholders did not wait for Sir Crispin Davis to be appointed chairman before saying publicly they didn't like him. No wonder people are...
Spectator, The, 10/10/09 by Northedge, Richard · More from publication -
Dividends -- the directors' cut
At least the savers whose interest rates have been squeezed still have their money in the bank. Shareholders, by contrast, are seeing their...
Spectator, The, 03/14/09 by Northedge, Richard · More from publication -
How many banks does the government want?
So Business Secretary Lord Mandelson is planning to turn the Post Office into a 'people's bank' -- to add to the taxpayers' portfolio that includes...
Spectator, The, 02/14/09 by Northedge, Richard · More from publication -
Fifty years on, the yield gap reverses
Next year will be a good one for anniversaries. A century since Lloyd George's People's Budget, 60 years since Attlee's devaluation, 25 since...
Spectator, The, 12/20/08 by Northedge, Richard · More from publication -
So many ways to say we're in trouble
Without an Inuit thesaurus I have no way of checking how many words the Eskimos really have for snow, but each day's newspapers reveal just how...
Spectator, The, 11/15/08 by Northedge, Richard · More from publication -
Is that a new boom on the far horizon?
The real economy has taken only the first step towards recession but the housing market has already clocked up four successive quarters of negative...
Spectator, The, 11/01/08 by Northedge, Richard · More from publication -
Socialism siezes the City
To anyone born before 1980, the idea that the state would own a large part of the economy was normal. The 'mixed economy' was a typically British...
Spectator, The, 10/18/08 by Northedge, Richard · More from publication -
A primary banking crisis
When Britain had a secondary banking crisis in the 1970s the big banks launched a lifeboat to rescue the sinking smaller lenders. Today we have a...
Spectator, The, 08/23/08 by Northedge, Richard · More from publication -
Good news for the prudent: we're heading for recession
So Britain is talking itself into recession. Keep chattering. If people want a recession, let them have one, so that the rest of us can benefit...
Spectator, The, 07/12/08 by Northedge, Richard · More from publication
