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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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
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
- 3 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
