John Authers | The Long View

John Authers is the Financial Times' Senior Investment Columnist, responsible for the weekly Long View and other columns on markets and investment. In a 22-year career at the FT, his previous posts have included global head of the Lex column, investment editor, US markets editor, Mexico City bureau chief and US banking correspondent. His latest book is The Fearful Rise of Markets.

John has a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford, and an MBA from Columbia University.

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Rally is partly down to how companies are deploying their cash

Managers who have maintained low costs in the past tend to maintain that culture in the future

Default rates used to correlate with economic cycles

The next five or ten years may well be devoted to a bid to improve energy efficiency

Central banks want companies to borrow

Hard to see ECB action this week having any lasting effect

ECB can do little to help a stuck Europe

Room for debate over markets but main factor is risk of crisis

Disappointing global growth is reason to be worried for the long term

Only a small band of managers outperform index benchmarks

The optimism must stop when it comes to cheap buys

Expensive property, expanding credit, rising inflation and the currency

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New products may have helped fuel the financial crisis, but R&D has its place

Why capitalism remains in rude health

Others will attempt to take Intrade’s place and alter its model

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