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The business column - Patrick Hosking warns the online landlords
- 12 September 2005
History has been made. Now we can all be landlords, with a new web-based business that makes buy-to-let available to those with less than £100,000 to spare
Business
The business - Patrick Hosking sees a spectre return
- 25 July 2005
The consensus among economists is that we have reached the turning point with unemployment - and there is worse to come
Business
The business - Patrick Hosking finds £4m insufficient
- 11 July 2005
Citigroup was fined for failing to conduct its business with due skill and care. After its profits were subtracted, the fine was £4m - a sum it makes every four hours
Business
The business - Patrick Hosking waves goodbye to Sid
- 20 June 2005
Who owns Britain? Not individual Britons, dwindling in importance on the stock market for decades. So who's taking up the slack? Foreigners
Business
The business - Patrick Hosking laments the Abbey's habits
- 13 June 2005
When the prize for cheating is £19m and the fine for being caught is £800,000, are bank managers under any pressure at all to do the right thing?
Business
The business - Patrick Hosking enjoys the high street's pain
- 30 May 2005
The high street is in trouble. Hip-hip-hip hooray - an economic slowdown now is far better than a more serious reversal a few years hence
Business
The business - Patrick Hosking asks if hedge funds are so dangerous
- 23 May 2005
The takeover of Manchester United is yet another example of hedge funds muscling into new territory. But are these greedy "locusts" really so dangerous?
The business - Patrick Hosking denounces a dodgy bank loan
- 16 May 2005
Lloyds TSB needs to rethink radically its system of staff incentives, which has led to customers being persuaded to take out loans they can't afford
Business
The business - Patrick Hosking sniffs a City scandal
- 02 May 2005
The bosses of a £144m fund to compensate victims of failed investment trusts have hired two PR teams. One puffed up some of the firms that caused the mess in the first place
Business
The business - Patrick Hosking watches Rover drop off its perch
- 18 April 2005
Will the Rover bung from Patricia Hewitt produce any electoral advantage? I'm pretty certain the average Brummie isn't that naïve
