Under the sign of the Bear, these are good days for plastic bags and crusty uncles

I AM sure there has been some misunderstanding. Either the accounts of Hollis Industries are wrong or Geoffrey Robinson is wrong, so it must be the accounts. They say that he was paid 200,000 a year as chairman, but somebody might have written that in as a joke, rather like Auberon Waugh when he alt...

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Published in:The Spectator (London. 1828) 2001-03, Vol.286 (9007), p.25-25
Main Author: FILDES, CHRISTOPHER
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
Analysis
Bear market
Bear markets
Brown, Gordon
Buffett, Warren
Economic aspects
Economic conditions
Grant, James
Greenspan, Alan
Stock exchanges
Stock-exchange
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Summary:I AM sure there has been some misunderstanding. Either the accounts of Hollis Industries are wrong or Geoffrey Robinson is wrong, so it must be the accounts. They say that he was paid 200,000 a year as chairman, but somebody might have written that in as a joke, rather like Auberon Waugh when he altered George Gale's name to Lunchtime O'Gale in the contents page of The Spectator.
ISSN:0038-6952
2059-6499