Business News & Articles | The Spectator Magazine

Home > The Magazine > Business

RSS

Saturday 11 October 2008

Dare to dream and make your ultimate trip a reality

The latest culture as recommended by our staff

Michael Henderson

Michael Henderson suggests

Email registration

Free weekly email update

Great products and special offers for Spectator readers

Click here for great value events

Click here for exclusive articles, offers, tasting notes and discussion

Any other business

Martin Vander Weyer

11th June, 2008

How times change: the ECB has become the very model of a modern central bank

Time to start putting clients first again

Simon Nixon

11th June, 2008

Simon Nixon says trust in the City is at rock-bottom but he sees a glimmer of hope in the rise of boutique banks

Will the wisdom of Warren Buffett translate into German?

Matthew Lynn

4th June, 2008

Matthew Lynn wonders whether the world’s greatest investor will be able to pick winners in continental Europe the way he has for more than four decades in the US

The great box-ticker takes charge

Richard Northedge

4th June, 2008

Richard Northedge on the FSA's new chairman

Painful birth of a new epoch of simplicity

Tony Curzon Price

4th June, 2008

Tony Curzon Price says the current surge in prices signals the beginning of a new 40-year economic cycle

Can Lord Bell’s PR skills combat the aroma of communism and cabbage?

Neil Barnett

28th May, 2008

Neil Barnett reports from Belarus

How bad government caused the food crisis

Julian Morris

28th May, 2008

Julian Morris argues that recent shortages and price rises of staple food in Asia and Latin America have been caused as much by parasitical politicians as by poor harvests

National Cyber-database Proposal

Edie G. Lush

28th May, 2008

When Labour ministers say ‘we’re listening’, this is what they really mean — and it’s frightening

Hand over your cash: how banks are mugging investors

Neil Collins

21st May, 2008

Neil Collins says the rights issues recently announced by RBS, Bradford & Bingley and HBOS are a sign of desperation — and their terms are an insult to loyal shareholders

Half a house is hardly worth having

Ross Clark

21st May, 2008

Ross Clark on shared equity schemes

Microsoft’s Yahoo bid ends well — for Google

David Crow

14th May, 2008

David Crow says personal animosities played a major part in the failed merger of Microsoft and Yahoo — to the benefit of their most potent online competitor

Any Other Business

Martin Vander Weyer

14th May, 2008

These days, Vesco the fugitive fraudster would have had a top job on Wall Street

Emperor Soros’s new clothes

Matthew Lynn

7th May, 2008

Matthew Lynn says hedge-fund pioneer and currency speculator George Soros is still a brilliant player of markets — but as a philosopher, frankly, he’s incomprehensible

City Life

Anne Hyland

7th May, 2008

Clear blue skies and shiny shopping malls, but Mao’s corpulent corpse still presides

For Formula One, sex sells; but not the way Max likes it

Christian Sylt and Caroline Reid

30th April, 2008

Christian Sylt and Caroline Reid say the motorsport industry is in turmoil — and could lose millions in sponsorship — as a result of Max Mosley’s tabloid embarrassment

Say farewell to gentlemanly capitalism

Tony Curzon Price

30th April, 2008

Tony Curzon Price foresees a new era in which finance will be as tightly regulated as pharmaceuticals

Tantamount to financial terrorism

Neil Barnett

23rd April, 2008

Neil Barnett says hedge funds should be forced to reveal their trading secrets, to deter them from the kind of market manipulation that has recently hit Icelandic banks

Any Other Business

Martin Vander Weyer

23rd April, 2008

The Chariots of Fire moment that revealed Gordon’s 10p tax timebomb

How to rescue a bank: be firm, be quick, be quiet

Ian Hay Davison

16th April, 2008

Ian Hay Davison draws lessons for the handling of the Northern Rock crisis from his experience as chairman of National Mortgage Bank after its collapse in 1992