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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.

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UK Politics
No more lectures, please
29 May 2008

The Prime Minister took the credit for the good economic times. Now people expect him to shoulder so

UK Politics
Why the housing bubble finally burst
01 May 2008

Alex Brummer explains that it's the new homes that are the worst hit as housebuilders have stopped b

Global Issues
How the IMF found a new role
17 April 2008

The International Monetary Fund had few friends and not enough to do. But its prediction of the cred

UK Politics
Heads I win, tails you lose
03 April 2008

The credit crunch was due to an orgy of reckless lending by the world's banks. But for the people wh

UK Politics
Why the Tesco tax story rankles
06 March 2008

The supermarket group's alleged behaviour has provoked outrage, but hundreds of other British compan

Politics
Darling in the hall of horrors
21 February 2008

Unflattering comparisons to certain predecessors have dogged the Chancellor's week. He is damaged, w

UK Politics
When money talks
21 February 2008

Who Runs Britain? How the Super-Rich Are Changing our Lives

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Business
Home-grown problems
07 February 2008

The IMF suggests governments facing more difficult economic times should increase spending. But Brit

Middle East
The people pay the price
24 January 2008

Combine the foolishness of American banks with the hesitancy of British ministers, and you produce a

Business
Why leaders love Davos
17 January 2008

From high political office to banking is a well-worn route for Tory grandees. Now Labour is in on th

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