Alex Brummer

2 weeks ago | msn.com | Alex Brummer

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2 weeks ago | thisismoney.co.uk | Alex Brummer

Labour's light-touch regulation meant Britain, with its free-wheeling City culture, felt the shock waves from the great financial crisis of 2008 more than most. The response of then-prime minister Gordon Brown and an intellectually robust Treasury was impressive. Brown and his chancellor Alistair Darling recognised they needed global and national strategies to fix the damage.

2 weeks ago | thisismoney.co.uk | Alex Brummer

Share markets have rallied since Donald Trump did his U-turn, but the damage is not over. The trade war between the world’s two largest economies, the US and China, is unresolved and that is an enormous uncertainty for global companies and markets. Steel and car tariffs, at a punishing 25 per cent, have not been dismantled. In the UK, we learned the hard way how economic discourse and destructive policies can dismember confidence and growth.

2 weeks ago | msn.com | Alex Brummer

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2 weeks ago | dailymail.co.uk | Alex Brummer

Strategic analysts have long forecast that the competition for supremacy between the world’s economic superpowers, the United States and China, would end in war. Most assumed the trigger might be, say, Beijing’s invasion of Taiwan or a flare-up in the South China Sea. Now we know differently. China’s imposition of an 84 per cent barrier against American exports to the People’s Republic signals the outbreak of a truly explosive trade war.