Patrick Hosking

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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

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The Business - Patrick Hosking asks who wants to run a bank

• 13 May 2002

Why should a clever and powerful man want to become governor of the Bank of England? He has to make the same decision, month after month

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The Business - Patrick Hosking on a strange pension payment

• 06 May 2002

If a secretary took 61p from the petty cash without permission, she'd be in trouble. But when it's the chairman, and there are lots of noughts on the end, it's different