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Articles by Patrick Hosking

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The business - Patrick Hosking hears predictions of a raise in VAT

  • 10 January 2005

A slowdown in consumption growth (or even no growth at all) will be one of the year's big stories. And at least one senior retailer expects Gordon Brown to raise VAT to 20 per cent

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?

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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