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Going nowhere fast
- Alex Brummer
- 22 November 2007
- 3 comments
Not only has the government presided over the biggest financial bailout in Britain's history, it has sought to minimise its importance
No one can yet say how bad it is
- Alex Brummer
- 08 November 2007
- 5 comments
The most worrying aspect of all this is how little the politicians and regulators knew of what was going on in the world of the major banks
Discs, downloads and democracy
- Alex Brummer
- 25 October 2007
Saying that no one pays for music anymore ignores that 95% of it is in the hands of the big four record companies
Watch that squeeze ahead
- Alex Brummer
- 04 October 2007
A significant tax rise will be required, to fund even the modest increases in government spending projected, if the public finances are not to go awry
On cross-dressing chancellors
- Alex Brummer
- 27 September 2007
- 1 comment
The Tories are "doing a Brown" - pledging to keep within Darling's spending controls rather than promising deep-seated change
A failure of regulation
- Alex Brummer
- 20 September 2007
- 2 comments
There is a bank crisis in Britain every decade - but in the case of Northern Rock, Gordon Brown's actions as chancellor are coming back to haunt him
The fly-and-buy disaster
- Alex Brummer
- 13 September 2007
The ghastly state of London's airports, particularly Heathrow, is having an impact on the economy. The answer is to get tough with BAA
The hard facts about pay
- Alex Brummer
- 06 September 2007
Unfortunately, Gordon Brown has left himself little choice but to stand firm in the face of growing public sector discontent
Hypocrisy at the highest level
- Alex Brummer
- 30 August 2007
Untrammelled capitalism has been allowed to set its own rules for far too long - and by a Labour Chancellor, who promised to put "stability" first
Yes, there's every reason to worry
- Alex Brummer
- 23 August 2007
- 1 comment
By the standards of the second half of the 20th century, we are in the midst of a panic as serious as any which preceded it
