Thomas Bennett has been The Economist's Schumpeter columnist since 2026. Prior to this, he was the paper's US business editor in New York and its global business correspondent in London. Since joining The Economist in 2022 he has written cover stories on globalisation, corruption and financial markets. In 2025 he authored a special report on the future of American finance.
Before becoming a journalist Tom was an investment banker. He read history at Trinity College, Cambridge.
Recent work
- Leader · How worried should you be about private credit?
- Briefing · A guide to the private credit crisis
- Schumpeter · Elliott Management and the art of telling bosses they're wrong
- Schumpeter · Why corporate lawyers always win
- Schumpeter · What the heirs to General Electric did next
- Schumpeter · America's bosses are being dragged into local politics
- Schumpeter · Welcome to the era of anarchic antitrust
- Schumpeter · Private equity barons have a giant AI problem
- Schumpeter · Jeffrey Epstein's ghost is haunting the grand old men of capitalism
- Schumpeter · Don't be fooled: AI bosses are regular capitalists
- Business · As Warren Buffett retires, uncertainty looms for Berkshire Hathaway
- Business · Patrick Drahi has bested his lenders yet again
- Business · Donald Trump and the unseemly rise of insider capitalism
- Business · The seven deadly sins of corporate exuberance
- Leader · First Brands is a painful but necessary warning for Wall Street
- Business · Never mind America's real economy, its deal economy is booming
- Business · With Electronic Arts, Saudi Arabia scores a record buy-out
- Business · The individual usurps the firm as the leading actor in business
- Business · If quarterly earnings rules were scrapped, would anyone notice?
- Business · How the migrant crackdown threatens America Inc
- Business · What might Trumpian meddling mean for Intel?
- Business · The Elon Musk theory of pay
- Schumpeter · Who will pay for the trillion-dollar AI boom?
- Business · The rail mega-merger that could transform American supply chains
- Business · A Wall Street wheeze makes a surprising comeback
- Leader · American finance, always unique, is now uniquely dangerous
- Special report · Financial giants are transforming Wall Street
- Special report · Clash of the titans
- Special report · What it means to be illiquid
- Special report · The debt barons who are taking on the banks
- Special report · The latest investment fad is made for gamblers
- Special report · Can anything stop America's superstar hedge funds?
- Special report · How the next financial crisis might happen
- Finance · The American government's accidental private-credit subsidy
- Business · Corporate America's diversity wars are just getting started
- Business · Why elite MBA graduates are struggling to find jobs