John Authers is a senior editor for markets at Bloomberg News. Previously, he spent 29 years with the Financial Times, where previous posts have included global head of the Lex Column, chief markets commentator, investment editor, U.S. markets editor, Mexico City bureau chief, and U.S. banking correspondent. He is the author of The Fearful Rise of Markets and other books. Authers has a degree in philosophy, politics, and economics from the University of Oxford and an MBA from Columbia University.