Dan Atkinson



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Full name: Dan Atkinson

Area of interest: Economics

Journals: Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday

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Education: Christ's Hospital, Horsham, Sussex

Career: Reading Evening Post: apprenticeship and a then business editor; Press Association: deputy City Editor, 1985/1990; The Guardian: Financial correspondent (specialised in issues of regulation and fraud), 1990/2000; Mail on Sunday: Economics editor, 2000-

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Books & Debate:

 * The Age of Insecurity, 1999 (Verso) ISBN 1859842259 (with Larry Elliott)
 * The Wrecker's Lamp (co-author Ruth Kelly) OCLC 31627747 - paper for the Institute for Public Policy Research on the role of currency markets in economic policy, 1994
 * The Age of Insecurity OCLC 38916552, 1998 (with Larry Elliott)
 * Financial Mail on Sunday complete guide to the financial markets OCLC 42579300, 2001
 * Fantasy Island OCLC 174505744, 2007 (with Larry Elliott) (Guardian review)

Latest work: The Gods That Failed: how blind faith in markets has cost us our future OCLC 222163085, 2008 (with Larry Elliott)

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Articles:

 * Deflation IS terrifying - but how can Labour fail to see the cost of living has shot up? - How was the Great Deflation of 2009 for you? Not up to much, if official figures out today are to be believed - 25th March 2009
 * Entrepreneurs should get rich - not mere bank directors like Fred the Shred - Today there are pensioners and then there are other pensioners. Sir Fred Goodwin, former chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland, is firmly in the second category. He is very much not your ordinary pensioner. The real issue? Let us spell it out again: Six hundred and fifty thousand pounds a year - 26th February 2009
 * Why is the Government using our money to bribe a bank to puff up a new house price bubble? - Some years ago, a television sketch by John Bird and John Fortune had great fun with the recent decision by debt-laden Channel Tunnel operator Eurotunnel to suspend interest payments, then running at about £700 million a year - 24th February 2009
 * The soaring price of the ultimate dud investment shows just how scared we all are - Remember Sergeant Bilko, the fast-talking army sergeant of fond television memory? In one episode, the great man took out a lease on an empty shop in the local town and then did…nothing - 18th February 2009
 * So what if a bank looked wobbly? The swashbuckling merchant princes of Canary Wharf would ride to the rescue - Many years ago, a rock star was found dead in his hotel room and suggestions of suicide circulated in the media. His other half was having none of it and went public to defend his reputation - 12th February 2009
 * The show trial of the bankers is terrific fun - but the wrong people are in the dock - What larks, eh? The nation’s least favourite former bankers squirmed today as they were interrogated by another bunch of people riding low in the water of public esteem – MPs - 10th February 2009
 * A country smaller than Birmingham bought up our High Street and no one was watching - Iceland has a population of just over 300,000, about one-third that of the city of Birmingham. Seventy per cent of its export earnings depend on the fishing industry, which employs six per cent of the population. Yet when companies such as Baugur, which went bust today, came calling to buy up flagship firms, nobody turned a hair - 4th February 2009
 * It's not a fashionable view but why shouldn't a hedge fund make £200m short-selling RBS shares? - ONE of the oddest features of the current crisis is the way it makes for the strangest fallings out – and the strangest alliances - 27th January 2009
 * US investment guru right to say Britain is finished? I'm afraid there's a horrible chance he is'' - With jittery share prices, a currency heading for parity with the Tanzanian shilling and US investment guru Jim Rogers telling one and all that Britain is washed up, it seemed a good idea to seek solace by reminding ourselves that other times have seen problems just as bad, or, at least, different - 21st January 2009
 * The lunacy of lavishing billions to make the banks do the very thing that caused this crisis - One of Iris Murdoch's most memorable creations is Randall Peronet, anti-hero of her 1962 novel An Unofficial Rose - 20th January 2009
 * What small firms really need is the return of the old-fashioned bank manager - You may remember the scene in the film Raiders of the Lost Ark, in which the Germans have established an enormous excavation site in the Egyptian desert, watched by the good guys, played by Harrison Ford and John Rhys-Davies - 14th January 2009
 * The VAT cut has helped retailers and Brown but not the rest of us - In the current climate, the thought of what some of we oldsters think of as tuppence ha'penny being knocked off an item that will still cost £1.15 is unlikely to get us spending as if there is no tomorrow - 8th January 2009
 * Is the threat of deflation just another scare story? - Somebody really ought to tell the Southern Railway about the terrifying spectre of deflation that is supposedly stalking our economy, the nightmare prospect of ever-falling prices - 7th January 2009



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