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The business - Patrick Hosking brings us another brokers' scam

  • 15 September 2003

Yet another scam on Wall Street has been enriching professional investors at the expense of the small guy. It hasn't happened here yet, but is it a symptom of an alarming trend?

The business - Patrick Hosking reports that writs fly in the City

  • 08 September 2003

High court writs are flying in the Square Mile, alleging bad behaviour among stockbrokers. It's the last thing the City needs as small punters tentatively start to invest again

The business - Patrick Hosking wants a (small) recession now

  • 21 July 2003

The interest rate cut will keep the house price bubble going. But it's taboo to suggest that we should risk a mild recession now rather than fuel a boom that must end in tears

The business - Patrick Hosking reports that tobacco is in fashion

  • 14 July 2003

Did you think the smart money was going into new ideas that improve the lot of mankind? You'll be shocked to learn that the latest fashionable investment is in cigarettes

The business - Patrick Hosking sizes up "Steel Nerves Merv"

  • 07 July 2003

"Steady Eddie", outgoing governor of the Bank of England, has barely put a foot wrong. Can his successor, "Steel Nerves Merv", do as well?

The business - Patrick Hosking reveals the perks of pensions

  • 30 June 2003

When the value of pensions is falling, why do ordinary people have to fork out for lunch, fine burgundy, lap-dancing and other perks for fund managers?

The business - Ed Crooks reveals Bush's true revenge on Europe

  • 23 June 2003

Now America is taking its real revenge for opposition to the war in Iraq. It has allowed the dollar to plunge - and dropped it on the foot of Europe's ailing economy

The business - Patrick Hosking adds up our losses to the bank

  • 09 June 2003

The banks slow down the processing of payments to a pace at which they can mug us: the loss of interest to customers is something like £11.8bn a year

The business - Patrick Hosking puts the boot into Eddie George

  • 02 June 2003

The governor of the Bank of England is Mammon's archbishop. So what was he doing at the Chelsea Flower Show as guest of a bank that has been involved in a huge scandal?

The business - Patrick Hosking wants the Olymics to go elsewhere

  • 26 May 2003

Remember the BCCI scandal? Amazingly, the litigation is still going on, 12 years later, and the whole thing promises to make Jarndyce v Jarndyce look quick and cheap

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