Patrick Hosking
Articles by Patrick Hosking
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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
Business
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
Business
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
