Jack Farchy

Jack Farchy is a business journalist whose reporting focuses on commodities, natural resources and the trading houses that connect producers with global markets. He works for Bloomberg News and previously covered commodities for the Financial Times. His assignments have included reporting on resources, commerce and conflict in countries including Kazakhstan, Ivory Coast and Libya.

Farchy writes investigative business nonfiction grounded in interviews, financial records and reporting from commodity-producing regions. His central subject is power: how firms dealing in oil, metals and agricultural goods can influence governments and events while attracting far less public attention than banks or major consumer companies.

He co-wrote The World for Sale with fellow Bloomberg journalist Javier Blas. The book traces the modern commodity-trading industry through figures such as Marc Rich and companies including Glencore, Vitol and Trafigura. Its episodes range from the collapse of the Soviet Union to traders’ dealings with Libyan rebels during the Arab Spring. The book was shortlisted for the 2021 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award.

The World for Sale is the natural starting point. It turns a complicated, often opaque industry into a reported narrative about money, geopolitical leverage and the physical materials behind everyday life. It is also Farchy’s first published book, according to Penguin.