Patrick Hosking
Articles by Patrick Hosking
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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 marvels at gullibility
- 18 July 2005
With his £2m home, his Ferrari and his exotic pets, Foster clearly prospered. His clients, now likely to get back only 7p for every pound they invested, did not
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
Society
The busness - Patrick Hosking tells it straight on poker
- 27 June 2005
The thirtysomething entrepreneurs behind PartyGaming are worth $2bn each. Not bad for a pair with backgrounds in pornography and computer programming
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
