Patrick Hosking

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The business - Patrick Hosking deplores peace in our time

• 08 March 2004

We don't want peace between companies and their shareholders. The latter should carry on treating top managers brutally; it's the only hope of restraining boardroom greed

The business - Patrick Hosking cinfronts a cinema about popcorn

• 01 March 2004

Anybody who has bought a second home as an investment should listen carefully to the analyst who forecasts that house prices are about to fall by as much as 30 per cent

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The business - Patrick Hosking

• 23 February 2004

It will soon be easier to declare yourself bankrupt. Ministers think this will encourage budding entrepreneurs to have a go. But won't it just foster the "jam today" culture? Asks Patrick Hosking

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The business - Patrick Hosking expects a bank-hating festival

• 16 February 2004

Prepare for another festival of hatred against the banks, as they announce record annual pre-tax profits totalling £25bn. So will they now clear our cheques more quickly?

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The business - Patrick Hosking fears our babies will be diddled

• 09 February 2004

Why are we encouraging our children to hand over money to life insurance companies that have spent the past 20 years mis-selling to their parents and grandparents? Asks Patrick Hosking

The business - Patrick Hosking on dog collars in the boardroom

• 02 February 2004

The former Archbishop of Canterbury has a big idea: he wants a priest to sit on every company board. Then, he claims, there would be no scandals such as Parmalat and Enron

The business - Patrick Hosking on how banks get bigger and bigger

• 26 January 2004

Banks get fewer and fewer . . . and bigger and bigger. Regulators should try to imagine what would happen if one of them went bust. The consequences are unthinkable

The business - Patrick Hosking instructs us to boycott salmon

• 19 January 2004

Scotland's fish farms, by wiping out wild salmon and sea trout, probably destroy more jobs than they create. Discard your lemon wedges and join me in a boycott

The business - Patrick Hosking explains a Mediterranean scandal

• 12 January 2004

Now Europe has a financial scandal to match Enron, and this time real, hard cash has gone missing. But once more the big US banks may be at least partly to blame

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The business - Patrick Hosking can't take Oliver Letwin seriously

• 08 December 2003

Oliver Letwin, the shadow chancellor, cannot expect to be taken seriously while he draws a wage from N M Rothschild, which has as many as 92 corporate clients