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Alex Brummer

Alex Brummer

Articles by Alex Brummer

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High street shake-out

  • 04 December 2008
  • 2 comments

Woolworths has gone, many other famous stores will disappear, but a new age of shopping will emerge from the wreckage

The Fund is back in town

  • 23 October 2008
  • 4 comments

The tough remedies of the IMF won it few friends and, in recent years, countries have found more obliging lenders. But now "the bank of last resort" is back - with its austerity packages.

Cameron's Achilles' heel

  • 25 September 2008
  • 14 comments

Can the Conservatives handle the economy? The current opposition front bench is the least financially savvy for a generation

Labour must take on the bankers

  • 18 September 2008
  • 7 comments

In the worst catastrophe since the late 1920s, Brown and Darling have shown themselves to be cowardly compared to the Americans

Wanted: substance and coherence

  • 04 September 2008

The trick for Brown and Darling would be to deliver an old-fashioned autumn statement to lift consumer spirits and boost political confidence

Many happy returns, credit crunch

  • 07 August 2008
  • 2 comments

Only about half of the £250bn of toxic debt at the heart of the crunch has been fully recognised. That means many more months of misery

It's not all doom and gloom

  • 24 July 2008

How refreshing to see the boss of a major corporation demonstrate that he is willing to swim against the tide

We're not yet running on empty

  • 10 July 2008
  • 6 comments

The upward movement in the price of oil has far more to do with speculation than with a shortage of supply

Is this the return of stagflation?

  • 26 June 2008

As growth slows and prices surge, the economic outlook has echoes of the disastrous 1970s . . . but, for the moment, things aren't quite that bad

When rights go very wrong

  • 12 June 2008
  • 3 comments

The big banks' risky fundraising technique - offering bargain shares to private investors in "rights issues" - is a disaster for a City already in crisis

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