John Authers (born 1966), is a British financial journalist and finance author, who spent almost three decades reporting at the Financial Times (including becoming Chief Markets Commentator and global head of the Lex Column), before moving to Bloomberg in 2018.
While at Oxford, Authers was captain of his college 1987 University Challenge team that earned the record for the highest score in any round of the competition (520), although they lost the season final.
[13] Authers has been interviewed on financial events by other national media outlets including NPR,[14] BBC News,[15] and the New York Times.
[16] In 2003, he co-authored with Richard Wolffe The Victim's Fortune: Inside the Epic Battle Over the Debts of the Holocaust, which American diplomat Philip H. Gordon writing in Foreign Affairs described as a book that "... turned an important, depressing, and intensely technical subject – the negotiations over how to repay Holocaust-era debts – into a gripping tale replete with deserving victims, grandstanding politicians, greedy class-action lawyers, and tightfisted European bankers".
[18] In 2010, Authers published The Fearful Rise of Markets: A Short View of Global Bubbles and Synchronised Meltdowns, which explained why increasing central bank control over financial markets – to generate economic growth via asset price inflation, and protect asset via the Greenspan put – had led to artificially high levels of price correlation.