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The business - Patrick Hosking sees little hope for Big Pharma
- 29 November 2004
Things get worse and worse for the drugs companies. On top of growing resistance to their high prices come more doubts about their products' side effects
The business - Patrick Hosking expects better from accountants
- 22 November 2004
Accounting today is like photography in the First World War: there's no colour, the images are grainy and indistinct. Will new rules lead to a clearer picture of company finances?
Business
The business - Patrick Hosking sees the dollar plummeting
- 15 November 2004
The big question for Bush is how far he lets the dollar slide. Could we end up with a $2 pound?
Business
The business - Patrick Hosking on Shell's move to the Netherlands
- 08 November 2004
When Shell moves its headquarters to the Netherlands, Britain will lose tax revenues - and jobs. Yet our pensions and savings will be even more dependent on the company
Business
The business - Patrick Hosking recalls the Wall Street Crash
- 01 November 2004
The shares crash of 1929 gave rise to legislation aimed at curbing abuses by US capitalism. Not so now: in fact, some of the laws from the 1930s have been watered down
Business
The business - Patrick Hosking praises a New York regulator
- 25 October 2004
An American legal officer has shown that a few incriminating e-mails and a convincing whistle-blower are all that is required to bring the most powerful corporations to heel
Business
The business - Patrick Hosking on why small investors lose out
- 18 October 2004
Small investors do occasionally flex their muscles at company AGMs, but they have never become the ball-busting army of well-informed punters that once was predicted
Business
The business - Patrick Hosking
- 11 October 2004
Rocketing prices in the two districts the Blairs know best - Islington and Sedgefield - have convinced them that there is still money to be made in bricks and mortar
Business
The business - Patrick Hosking predicts a pre-Christmas election
- 04 October 2004
The property party is finally over. This means that, in pure economic terms, the government should hold a snap general election this side of Christmas
Business
The business - Patrick Hosking finds fat cats thriving still
- 27 September 2004
Companies will stop giving failed executives big pay-offs only when a shareholder sues the non-executive directors who are ultimately responsible for the scandal
