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John Dizard has been a financial journalist for 34 years, and has been a weekly columnist for the FT since 2001, writing first for the Global Investing page and then on Wealth and FTfm. His columns – which now appear in FTfm every Monday – cover the full range of subjects that might be of interest to wealthy investors, from complicated hedge fund strategies and ideas for buying stocks, through aggressive defences of the consumer against bad behaviour on Wall Street, to articles on investing in gold, diamonds and contemporary art.
Over a long career, he has also written, among others, for The New York Post, The New York Observer, National Review, Fortune Magazine, Institutional Investor, Fortune, Forbes, Barrons, and the New York Journal of Commerce. He has been the London Bureau Chief of Institutional Investor, a correspondent for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and the managing editor of Canadian Business Magazine.
He attended Tufts and Georgetown universities, and studied political economy at the University of Saskatchewan, where he wrote a thesis on the European nonferrous metals cartel. - -
Why gold is certain to move higher
It’s not central bank gold purchases that are the key support for the metal, but the prospect of more controls on international flow of capital from the likes of Brazil, writes John Dizard
Shale gas numbers may not add up
Enormous reserves of shale gas have been found. But how much can be produced economically, and how quickly, asks John Dizard
The real reasons for the decline in bank lending
The policy people and regulatory agencies can’t have it both ways – less risky institutions mean tighter lending standards, writes John Dizard
The invisible cost of avoiding defaults
By never taking economically justified writedowns, the US economy will be jellied into low growth and lost opportunities, writes John Dizard
How we will pay for ongoing bank losses
In the end, the public will pay for new bank losses, not through taxation, but through usury, writes John Dizard
Banks will make customers pay
In the end, the public will pay for new bank losses, not through taxation, but through usury, writes John Dizard
Why jet chartering is set to soar
There have been ups and downs in the bizjet industry before, but this cycle is different, writes John Dizard
Democratisation of shareholder voting begins
In the US the consensus is moving against incumbent management – with the government’s encouragement, writes John Dizard
Look beyond the shipping forewarnings
The Baltic Dry Index does not provide a perfect crystal ball, writes John Dizard, so instead of worrying about its recent decline presaging a new disaster, look further ahead
Is time being called on gold’s bull run?
John Dizard examines the arguments of the gold bulls, bears and superbears and speculates on whether the the current bull market is about to end
