Marty Cej

Marty Cej is Managing Editor of Canada’s Business News Network and anchor of Market Morning and Trading Day, the country’s benchmark programs for breaking financial news.

Cej grew up in Calgary, Alberta and Toronto, Ontario. Since interning at The New York Times’ Madrid bureau nearly two decades ago, Cej has covered almost every major global financial news story. From London he reported on the destruction of Britain’s oldest merchant bank, Barings, by rogue trader Nick Leeson and tracked the fallout from Bre-X. From Toronto he covered the rise of Nortel, and from San Francisco, the fall of Enron and the bursting of the tech bubble. In New York, Cej reported on the terrorist attacks of 9/11 for CBS MarketWatch.com, the world’s No. 1 financial news site, and MacLean’s magazine.

As a BNN anchor, Investment Editor at The Globe and Mail, global editor at MarketWatch.com and reporter and editor at Bloomberg News, Cej has covered money in all its forms and interviewed the investors, executives and policy-setters who matter most, from Berkshire Hathaway’s Warren Buffet to Barrick’s Peter Munk; from Jean Chretien to Fidel Castro.

Cej has a securities representative designation from Britain’s Financial Services Authority and has written and reported on stocks, bonds, currencies, commodities, derivatives and economics from Toronto, New York, San Francisco, Stockholm, Dublin, Copenhagen, Madrid, Amsterdam and Brussels.

    It's Different This Time... Isn't It?

    Booms, Bubbles, Busts and Re-Building: How Financial Markets Learn from their Mistakes, and then Insist on Repeating Them

    From Tulipmania in 1637 to the U.S. housing bust in 2007/2008, financial manias have demonstrated a remarkable consistency in their structure. By examining the features and ingredients of past booms and busts, can we come up with a recipe that will help at least some people avoid these seemingly inevitable financial disasters? The answer is yes.

    We will meet the rational and irrational investor, the rube and the carny, the fraudster and the widow, and the banker and the borrower to hear what they have learned from past manias and what they can teach us about protecting ourselves in the future. We'll also take a look at how Wall Street and Bay Street might look once this current market volatility settles.