John Authers, Senior Investment Columnist for the Financial Times, is responsible for the weekly “Long View” and other columns on markets and investment. One of the world’s most influential financial journalists, he has served as global head of the Financial Times “Lex” column, U.S. markets editor, Mexico City bureau chief, and U.S. banking correspondent.
Authers speaks worldwide and appears frequently on major U.S. and global media, including the BBC, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, and PBS. He has twice been honored as the U.K.’s Investment Journalist of the Year and was named the Wincott Foundation’s Senior Financial Journalist of the year for 2009, the premier award in British financial journalism. He is author of The Fearful Rise of Markets: Global Bubbles, Synchronized Meltdowns, and How to Prevent Them in the Future, to which this e-book is a sequel.
Authers’ previous book, The Victim’s Fortune, coauthored with Richard Wolffe, earned the prestigious Best of Knight-Bagehot Award.