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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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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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.

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Time to rethink

Time to rethink, not reassure

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?

Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling, the Miliband dilemma and what the party must do next
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