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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Politics
Darling in the hall of horrors
- 21 February 2008
- 3 comments
Unflattering comparisons to certain predecessors have dogged the Chancellor's week. He is damaged, writes Alex Brummer, but not necessarily fatally
Books
When money talks
- 21 February 2008
Who Runs Britain? How the Super-Rich Are Changing our Lives
Robert Peston Hodder & Stoughton, 360pp, £20
Business
Home-grown problems
- 07 February 2008
- 2 comments
The IMF suggests governments facing more difficult economic times should increase spending. But Britain is a unique case
Economy
The people pay the price
- 24 January 2008
- 5 comments
Combine the foolishness of American banks with the hesitancy of British ministers, and you produce a dangerous mix drawing the UK into a slump
Business
Why leaders love Davos
- 17 January 2008
- 1 comment
From high political office to banking is a well-worn route for Tory grandees. Now Labour is in on the act and Tony Blair will not be the last
Politics
Turbulence ahead
- 03 January 2008
- 1 comment
The global credit crunch has hardly begun to bite: much worse is to come. Alex Brummer predicts that 2008 will present Labour with by far its sternest economic test
UK Politics
Is the Rock Virgin territory?
- 06 December 2007
- 2 comments
Branson is a shrewd businessman and there are advantages to his acquiring Northern Rock. But the process has to be transparent
Economy
Going nowhere fast
- 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
Economy
No one can yet say how bad it is
- 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
North America
It's still the economy, stupid
- 01 November 2007
- 2 comments
In Washington, the big worry for presidential hopefuls is who benefits most from an election-year recession
