David Smick
David M. Smick, Sr. is a global macroeconomic strategist, magazine publisher, best-selling author, and documentary filmmaker. He is the chairman and CEO of Johnson Smick International, a global strategic advisory firm in Washington, D.C. where he is in partnership with former Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Manuel H. Johnson.[1] The firm provides strategic advice to some of the world's most successful investors. Smick is a registered independent.
In 2020 (with help from Academy Award-winning director
Smick's first book,
Beginning in 1985, Smick co-organized a series of distinguished global monetary conferences, sponsored by the U.S. congressional leadership, involving many of the industrialized world's finance ministers, central bankers, and leading foreign exchange experts. The conferences took place over the course of a decade in Tokyo, New York, Washington, Frankfurt, Vienna and Zurich. The first conference set the stage for the official 1985 Plaza Accord, the G5 agreement to bring down the value of the dollar during heightened trade tensions. Washington Post correspondent Hobart Rowen wrote that the conference was an important “final nail in the coffin of the pure floating exchange rate system.”
Senator Bill Bradley (D-NJ), a conference co-sponsor, at a later event in Zurich, floated the idea of developing-world debt restructuring which, within several years, led to the issuance of the popular Brady Bonds. Those bonds helped lead to a developing world economic rebound.
David Smick is the founder (1987), publisher, and editor of the distinguished quarterly magazine The International Economy.
David Smick has written op-ed pieces for the
Smick, 70, is married and has three children and four grandchildren. He grew up in a blue collar neighborhood in Baltimore.
Books
- The Great Equalizer: How Main Street Capitalism Can Create an Economy for Everyone (PublicAffairs, 2017).
- The World Is Curved: Hidden Dangers to the Global Economy (Penguin Portfolio, 2008).
References
- ^ Biography, from the personal website.
- ^ Brooks, David (October 6, 2008). "The Testing Time". The New York Times.
In his astonishingly prescient book, "The World Is Curved: Hidden Dangers to the Global Economy," David M. Smick argues ...
External links
- David Smick at IMDb