The dastardly Mr Deedes
A DECISION by Bank of England governor Mark Carney to send deputy governor Ben Broadbent to this week’s Jackson Hole summit in Wyoming ahead of his other three deputies doesn’t surprise Threadneedle street insiders. I’m told Carney and Broadbent have forged quite a ‘bromance’ in recent years. says my man in the pink tails: ‘Mark would really love Ben to succeed him, but there’s a suspicion Ben wants to go off and earn some serious money.’
Wealthy US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin’s Scots-born wife Louise has lashed out on Instagram after a user criticised her for posting a photo of herself travelling on a government plane draped in designer clothes. Accused by a woman of flaunting a taxpayer-funded trip, Barbie Doll Louise, 36, says: ‘Have you given more to the economy than me and my husband? I’m pretty sure we paid more taxes toward our day “trip” than you did.’ Eek! Have we another Cherie Blair on our hands?
Former foreign minister Lord Hague used his newspaper column yesterday to urge the Bank of England to raise interest rates. Doubtless many readers would agree. Moneybags Hague’s numerous City employers – which includes banking giant Citi – probably would too, though we can feel sure William writes in an entirely independent capacity.
Bullish Goldman Sachs head honcho Lloyd Blankfein took Monday’s solar eclipse as an opportunity to troll Donald Trump on Twitter: ‘Wish the moon wasn’t the only thing casting a shadow across the country. We got through one, we’ll get through the other.’ The usually touchy president is yet to return fire. A pity. A Trump/Blankfein Twitter spat would pack more punches than this weekend’s Mayweather/McGregor freak show.
My item yesterday that bijou advertising mogul sir Martin sorrell is known in the City as June 21st – he’s the shortest (k)night – is statistically inaccurate, say marketing firm Thinking out Loud. They state that the shortest knight is healthcare magnate sir Norman stoller, 83, who at 5ft 2in is four inches shorter than sorrell. There you go. A relief to sensitive sir Martin, I’m sure.