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
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
Economy
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
Economy
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
Economy
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
Economy
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
Economy
No more lectures, please
- 29 May 2008
- 1 comment
The Prime Minister took the credit for the good economic times. Now people expect him to shoulder some blame for the bad times
UK Politics
Why the housing bubble finally burst
- 01 May 2008
- 1 comment
Alex Brummer explains that it's the new homes that are the worst hit as housebuilders have stopped building until their are signs of real economic recovery
Economy
How the IMF found a new role
- 17 April 2008
- 1 comment
The International Monetary Fund had few friends and not enough to do. But its prediction of the credit-based crisis finally has people listening
Business
Heads I win, tails you lose
- 03 April 2008
The credit crunch was due to an orgy of reckless lending by the world's banks. But for the people who brought us this mess, it's still bonuses all round
Business
Why the Tesco tax story rankles
- 06 March 2008
- 2 comments
The supermarket group's alleged behaviour has provoked outrage, but hundreds of other British companies are doing exactly the same thing
