Chasing Alpha: How Reckless Growth and Unchecked Ambition Ruined the City’s Golden Decade

Philip Augar London: The Bodley Head, h/b, 2009, £20Reviewed by  A few days before he became Prime Minister, Gordon Brown was in celebratory mood as he arrived in the Square Mile to address the 2007 Mansion House dinner. Taking much of the credit after 10 years at the helm of the British economy, the Chancellor ... Read more