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The business - Patrick Hosking watches executives being spanked
- 22 July 2002
Company directors usually get off lightly at shareholders' meetings and in sessions with the press. How refreshing, then, that MPs can and do give them a harder time
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The business - Patrick Hosking discovers we're getting poorer
- 15 July 2002
We have lifted the lid from the tureen in the City kitchen, and found something unappetising, overcooked and horribly shrunken
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The Business - Patrick Hosking asks if the banks are getting smarter
- 08 July 2002
Higher bank charges, higher insurance premiums, higher taxes or smaller pensions: one way or another, we shall all pay for this wave of corporate collapses
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The Business - Patrick Hosking exposes a fresh executive scam
- 01 July 2002
As the stock market plunges, shareholders may think that company directors are at least in the same sinking ship. In fact, many have found a gold-plated rescue launch. Patrick Hosking reports
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The Business - Patrick Hosking on nature's redistribution of wealth
- 24 June 2002
The stock market slide is nature's way of redistributing wealth from the haves to the have-nots of the next generation, without a penny of inheritance tax being forked out
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The Business - Patrick Hosking
- 17 June 2002
The supply of genuinely new drugs has just about dried up. No wonder pharmaceutical companies are so keen to protect their patents on existing drugs. Patrick Hosking reports
The Business - Patrick Hosking counts Gordon's gold
- 10 June 2002
Did Gordon Brown blunder by selling gold too cheaply? Not as much as Tory chancellors did by failing to sell when the price was high reports Patrick Hosking
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The Business - Patrick Hosking on the return on George III
- 03 June 2002
For the first time in more than 70 years, Americans may regulate business again. They have woken up to find that George III is running General Motors reports Patrick Hosking
The Business - Patrick Hosking sees a pension crisis looming
- 27 May 2002
The middle classes, basking in rising house prices, haven't yet noticed that the value of their pension benefits is shrinking fast
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The Business - Patrick Hosking
- 20 May 2002
Amazingly, even the fat cats themselves have started to rebel against other fat cats raking in such high rewards reports Patrick Hosking
