Peter Brimelow

Peter Brimelow (born 1947) is a British-American financial journalist and author. Brimelow has been the editor of many publications, including Forbes, the Financial Post, and the National Review. Outside financial circles, he is best known for his controversial writings on immigration policy.

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British - American - Forbes - Financial Post - National Review - Immigration

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Brimelow was born in 1947 in Warrington, England. He studied at the University of Sussex (BA, 1970) and received an MBA from Stanford University in 1972. Brimelow subsequently moved to Canada. After a brief stint as a securities analyst, he settled down in Toronto and became a business writer and editor at the Financial Post and MacLean's magazine. From 1978 to 1980, he was an aide to senator Orrin Hatch in Washington D.C. In 1980 he moved to New York, working mainly for Barron's and Fortune. Brimelow was senior editor of Forbes Magazine from 1986 to 2002. He was married to Maggy Laws Brimelow (1953-2004) and has two children.

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Warrington, England - University of Sussex - MBA - Stanford University - Orrin Hatch - Barron's - Fortune

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Brimelow's books include the national best-seller Alien Nation: Common Sense About America's Immigration Disaster,The Wall Street Gurus: How You Can Profit from Investment Newsletters, The Worm In The Apple: How The Teacher Unions Are Destroying American Education and The Patriot Game: Canada and the Canadian Question Revisited. Alien Nation deals with immigration policy and the influx of illegal aliens as well as legal immigrants. The Worm in the Apple discusses the adverse effects of public education and teachers' unions on American youth.

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Brimelow is a paleoconservative and maintains that America's culture and way of life is threatened by unrestricted Third World immigration. His nonprofit organization Center for American Unity and online journal VDARE.com carries articles on immigration policy and related topics.

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Paleoconservative - Third World - Center for American Unity - VDARE

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