Ron Insana is CNBC’s senior analyst and commentator giving his perspective on important business stories. He also appears on “Squawk Box” once a month.

Previously, Insana was the anchor of CNBC's "Street Signs,” (M-F, 2-3 p.m. ET).

Insana joined CNBC in the 1991 merger with the Financial News Network. He has been a a regular contributor to NBC's "Today:” and "NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams," as well as "Imus in the Morning" on MSNBC, and other programs when market activity warrants.

Insana began his career in 1984 as an FNN production assistant, rising to managing editor and chief of FNN's Los Angeles bureau at the time the two networks combined. While at FNN, he was nominated for a Golden ACE Award for his role in covering the 1987 stock market crash. “Trend Watching: “How to Avoid Wall Street's Next Fads, Manias and Bubbles,” his third book, was published by Harpers Business in November, 2002. His first book, "Traders' Tales" (John Wiley), a compendium of anecdotes about Wall Street Life, was published in 1996. His second book, "The Message of the Markets," was published by Harpers Business in October 2000.

Insana was nominated for a News and Documentary Emmy Award as part of NBC’s coverage of 9/11, and in 1999, Insana was named one of the top 100 business news journalists of the century by TJFR Group.

He is also actively involved in Junior Achievement of New York, The Michael J. Fox Foundation, The Robin Hood Foundation and Autism Speaks.

Insana graduated with honors from California State University at Northridge.

Blog Entries by Ron Insana

March Comes In Like A Lion...

Posted March 3, 2008 | 01:37 PM (EST)


Wall Street closed out February on a brutal note ... with a 315 point decline in the Dow Jones Industrial Average capping off a four-month losing streak in stocks and sounding some alarm bells for those observers who keep a sharp eye on stock market charts. What this means...

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Is It Deja Vu All Over Again?

Posted February 21, 2008 | 11:38 AM (EST)


There has been much talk in the papers, of late, that "Stagflation" may be rearing its ugly head in the U.S. economy. For those of you too young to remember, "stagflation" is a particularly nasty economic phenomenon where both recession and inflation occur simultaneously, a phenomenon we have not seen...

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This Crisis Has Many Faces

Posted February 18, 2008 | 10:04 AM (EST)


Decades ago, there was a very famous actor, Paul Muni, who played a variety of different historical figures in the movies. From "Scarface" to Louis Pasteur to Toulouse Lautrec to Emile Zola, Muni was a character actor known for his many faces.

This financial market crisis that we have...

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The Fed Finally Got It Right

Posted February 1, 2008 | 12:00 PM (EST)


Well, after months of misapprehension, miscommunication and monetary policy missteps, the Federal Reserve finally articulated a coherent position on how it plans to address the instability in our financial markets and the imminent recession that has both Wall Street and Main Street panicked over the prospect.

Wednesday, Ben Bernanke and...

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Anatomy Of A Panic

Posted January 23, 2008 | 05:55 PM (EST)


The global financial markets have just begun to recover from a financial panic that has driven some 43 stock markets around the world down over 20 percent a piece from their most recent all-time highs. In the parlance of the financial world, that means that there are 43 "bear markets"...

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