Patrick Hosking
Articles by Patrick Hosking
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Business
The business - Patrick Hosking laments the state of pensions
- 20 September 2004
Pensions policy is a mess: not enough in the kitty, a crisis of confidence among savers and, with all the means-tested benefits, the poor wondering whether it's worth saving at all
Business
The business - Patrick Hosking fears a giant bank would rip us off
- 13 September 2004
A merger that gives one bank 34 per cent of the mortgage market would surely be vetoed. We're not talking about ice cream here: no industry is more important to consumers
The business - Patrick Hosking wonders if 999 will be privatised
- 06 September 2004
Adam Smith's invisible hand has dialled a wrong number: the market system fails to work for directory inquiries. We have high prices, inaccurate information and a confused public
The business - Patrick Hosking cheers the outcome of the M&S saga
- 26 July 2004
We should cheer the outcome of the M&S saga. It's a victory for good manners, small savers and openness in company information - and it promises cheaper clothes
Business
The business - Patrick Hosking
- 19 July 2004
David "Two Brains" Willetts may be wrong on pensions, but at least he and the Tories are trying to grapple with the issue, while ministers shelve it as "too difficult"
Business
The business - Patrick Hosking on the lessons of M&S and its shares
- 05 July 2004
So far, the Financial Services Authority has few significant insider-dealing scalps. But can it really be a coincidence that a rise in the share price precedes almost every takeover bid?
Business
The business - Patrick Hosking feels sorry for the thirty-glumthings
- 28 June 2004
Thirty-glumthings can't afford a house because prices are too high, lost out when "final salary" schemes were closed to new recruits and are now told to work until they're 70
Business
The business - Patrick Hosking hopes for a housing crash-ette
- 21 June 2004
W H Smith's pension fund is, like just about everyone else's, in the red. But the trustees are eager to protect the fund members' interests, and keep the promises made to them
Business
The business - Patrick Hosking marvels at the beauty of fuel tax
- 14 June 2004
"There's no such thing as a good tax," Winston Churchill grumbled. He was wrong: fuel tax is a huge earner, hard to evade, relatively progressive and cheap and easy to collect
Business
The business - Patrick Hosking reveals what economists do to frogs
- 31 May 2004
Put a frog in gradually heating water, and it will not realise it is being boiled to death. Is the same happening to consumers as interest rates rise very gradually?
