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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Business
Discs, downloads and democracy
- 25 October 2007
Saying that no one pays for music anymore ignores that 95% of it is in the hands of the big four record companies
Politics
The fat and the lean
- 11 October 2007
The pre-Budget report presages an era of financial uncertainty, borrowing and squeeze.
Business
Watch that squeeze ahead
- 04 October 2007
A significant tax rise will be required, to fund even the modest increases in government spending projected, if the public finances are not to go awry
Business
On cross-dressing chancellors
- 27 September 2007
- 1 comment
The Tories are "doing a Brown" - pledging to keep within Darling's spending controls rather than promising deep-seated change
Business
A failure of regulation
- 20 September 2007
- 2 comments
There is a bank crisis in Britain every decade - but in the case of Northern Rock, Gordon Brown's actions as chancellor are coming back to haunt him
Business
The fly-and-buy disaster
- 13 September 2007
The ghastly state of London's airports, particularly Heathrow, is having an impact on the economy. The answer is to get tough with BAA
Economy
The hard facts about pay
- 06 September 2007
Unfortunately, Gordon Brown has left himself little choice but to stand firm in the face of growing public sector discontent
Business
Hypocrisy at the highest level
- 30 August 2007
Untrammelled capitalism has been allowed to set its own rules for far too long - and by a Labour Chancellor, who promised to put "stability" first
Business
Yes, there's every reason to worry
- 23 August 2007
- 1 comment
By the standards of the second half of the 20th century, we are in the midst of a panic as serious as any which preceded it
Business
This pandemonium will hurt us all
- 16 August 2007
- 7 comments
America's housing bubble has burst: it's the price of making easy money from the poorest in society, and we could have seen it coming
