Alex Brummer
Alex Brummer is the City Editor of the Daily Mail and author of the acclaimed book The Crunch: How Greed and Incompetence Sparked the Credit Crisis. He previously worked at the Guardian where he was successively Foreign Editor, Financial Editor and Assistant Editor. Widely regarded as one of Britain's top financial journalists, he writes a column on economics for the New Statesman.
Articles by Alex Brummer
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Economy
Enter a daredevil
- 10 September 2009
The chairman of the troubled Financial Services Authority, Adair Turner, is courting political controversy as he takes on the City.
Economy
The fat cats are back
- 06 August 2009
- 6 comments
As governments dither over financial reforms, the bankers who caused the credit crunch are stashing away new fortunes
Economy
The warrior King
- 16 July 2009
Throughout the credit crunch, the governor of the Bank of England has been a trenchant critic of and direct challenge to the government, pushing his independence to the limit. So who is he? What does he want? And will he emerge as the real hero of the crisis?
Economy
The national interest
- 21 May 2009
With France’s dirigiste economic approach being hailed as a model for the world, state intervention is fashionable once more
Economy
The strangest bank of all
- 23 April 2009
Barclays first defied the Treasury by refusing to take its money. Now it won’t join the Chancellor’s insurance plan. But why not?
Economy
No stardust left to sprinkle
- 16 April 2009
- 1 comment
With falling tax revenues and soaring public spending, the outlook for this year’s Budget is bleak
Society
It wasn’t the media’s fault
- 12 February 2009
- 3 comments
Observations on the financial crisis
Economy
Mr Brown's bankers
- 22 January 2009
- 25 comments
The increasingly close relationship between banks and government pleases no one. But neither side can break free until toxic loans are flushed out of the system and the big institutions can start lending again.
Business
High street shake-out
- 04 December 2008
- 3 comments
Woolworths has gone, many other famous stores will disappear, but a new age of shopping will emerge from the wreckage
Economy
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.
