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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Darling in the hall of horrors

  • 21 February 2008
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Unflattering comparisons to certain predecessors have dogged the Chancellor's week. He is damaged, writes Alex Brummer, but not necessarily fatally

When money talks

  • 21 February 2008

Who Runs Britain? How the Super-Rich Are Changing our Lives
Robert Peston Hodder & Stoughton, 360pp, £20

Home-grown problems

  • 07 February 2008
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The IMF suggests governments facing more difficult economic times should increase spending. But Britain is a unique case

The people pay the price

  • 24 January 2008
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Combine the foolishness of American banks with the hesitancy of British ministers, and you produce a dangerous mix drawing the UK into a slump

Why leaders love Davos

  • 17 January 2008
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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

Turbulence ahead

  • 03 January 2008
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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

Is the Rock Virgin territory?

  • 06 December 2007
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Branson is a shrewd businessman and there are advantages to his acquiring Northern Rock. But the process has to be transparent

Going nowhere fast

  • 22 November 2007
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Not only has the government presided over the biggest financial bailout in Britain's history, it has sought to minimise its importance

No one can yet say how bad it is

  • 08 November 2007
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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

It's still the economy, stupid

  • 01 November 2007
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In Washington, the big worry for presidential hopefuls is who benefits most from an election-year recession

Jason Cowley

Brown and Shakespeare

The corrupted currents

Native Americans

At the gambling table

Old wound, same pain

Nicholas Lezard

Wanted: one cat

Wanted: one cat

Databases

Get yourself a record

Get yourself a record

Alan Johnson

Heading to No 10?

The Politics Interview: Alan Johnson

Neal Lawson

A new socialism

Nothing to turn back to

Travel

Somerset and indie

Morning, campers

Diane Arbus

Small tragedies

A revealer of souls

Vote!

Will China rule the world?

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