The Business
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The Business - Patrick Hosking cheers the defeat of McDonald's
- 25 November 2002
The chief executive of Cable & Wireless fell for the guff, gobbledegook and hype of the dotcom boom. And so did his entire board of eminent directors
Business
The business - Patrick Hosking finds the Bank wrong on house prices
- 18 November 2002
The Bank of England seems incapable of understanding the boom in house prices. Worse, it isn't warning us that the ensuing economic growth will be perilously unbalanced
Business
The business - Patrick Hosking finds that targets don’t work
- 11 November 2002
Targets are all the rage in industry as well as in government; but company bosses, at BP and elsewhere, are finding that they cause subordinates to cover up the bad news
Business
The business - Patrick Hosking laments a regulator's sloth
- 04 November 2002
Our Financial Services Authority seems to have no appetite for hunting scalps and nailing fraudsters. Oh, for the crusading zeal of the US regulators!
Business
The business - Patrick Hosking hails the truthful businessman
- 28 October 2002
Let's applaud the new head of Abbey National for telling the truth about house prices: they are set to slump. Then ministers will start passing the buck
The business - Patrick Hosking asks if Bombay will usurp London
- 21 October 2002
Could the City of London one day fall to Bombay and Bangalore? Will the British call India to mastermind blue-chip mergers as they now do to manage their bank accounts?
Business
The business - Patrick Hosking thinks reporters aren't so lazy
- 14 October 2002
Dame Marjorie Scardino is wrong: the personality of the chief executive is a better guide to the chances of finding fraud in a firm than the published accounts
The business - Patrick Hosking talks to the Sage of Omaha
- 07 October 2002
As capitalism falls into disrepute, and one great corporate figure after another bites the dust, just one man comes up smelling of roses: the legendary Warren Buffett
Business
The business - Patrick Hosking recommends Tory wets on the board
- 30 September 2002
If you want your company to be a success, get a Tory wet on the board. But steer clear of the hangers, floggers and swivel-eyed free marketeers
Business
The business - Patrick Hosking wonders if HMQ uses tax havens
- 16 September 2002
God and Mammon do not make a profitable partnership, as an Edinburgh bank discovered to its cost when it used an American evangelical preacher to sell its financial products
