Alex Brummer

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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Sunset for pensions

  • 25 January 2010
  • 1 comment

No politician dares suggest that depriving a chunk of the country of its retirement prospects is a fiscal necessity – but they should

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.

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

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?

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

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?

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

It wasn’t the media’s fault

  • 12 February 2009
  • 3 comments

Observations on the financial crisis

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.

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

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Time to rethink

Time to rethink, not reassure

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?

Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling, the Miliband dilemma and what the party must do next
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