Ron Insana is a veteran financial journalist, having spent over 41 years as an anchor and contributor for The Financial News Network, CNBC, NBC News, and, currently, MS Now, where he analyzes the most pressing economic and market issues of the day.
He also publishes “The Message of the Markets” on Substack. He also delivers The Market Scoreboard Report business updates to radio stations around the country, twice daily.
He is well-known for his profile interviews while at CNBC, including U.S. Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, numerous senior cabinet officials, and business luminaries such as Warren Buffett, Jack Welch, George Soros, Julian Robertson, Peter Lynch, and Larry Fink. He has also interviewed foreign heads of state from the late Mikhail Gorbachev to Jordan’s Queen Rania.
Insana has also spent time as an alternative asset manager and served as an advisor to several financial firms, including Schroders, North America, a trillion-dollar investment manager, where he was a senior advisor from 2019 to 2024.
He has written for Money magazine and USA Today and has hosted two nationally syndicated radio programs. He authored four books on money and markets.
Insana was named one of the “Top 100 Business News Journalists of the 20th Century” and was nominated for a news and documentary Emmy for his role in NBC’s coverage of 9/11.