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
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
Business
You takes the money, you pays the price
- 09 August 2007
Back-door nationalisation is on the march as enterprises owned by totalitarian governments take over some of our biggest firms
Business
Not much room at the top
- 26 July 2007
The two most powerful jobs in global economics - leadership of the IMF and the presidency of the World Bank - are still old-fashioned stitch-ups
Business
Money: Foreigners at the gates of the banks
- 19 July 2007
When the financial pages begin the hunt each year for the City's multimillion bonus earners, why is it so hard to find genuine British names on the list?
Business
An English model of perfection
- 12 July 2007
With interest rates rising inexorably, perhaps our independent central bankers are neither the best nor the brightest after all
Economy
Tell me, how did you get so rich?
- 05 July 2007
- 3 comments
As chancellor, Gordon Brown put his trust in tycoons and city chiefs. But as wealth disparities grow, such alliances may tarnish his reputation.
