David Smick is a global macroeconomic strategist, investor, magazine editor, and author, most recently of The Great Equalizer: How Main Street Capitalism Can Create an Economy for Everyone (PublicAffairs), David Smick which predicted the U.S. average working family economic anxiety that led to Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump. In 2008, he published The World Is Curved: Hidden Dangers to the Global Economy (Penguin Portfolio), which predicted the 2008 global financial crisis. Mr. Smick has written for the Washington Post, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. He has appeared as a television commentator on CNN, Fox, CNBC, Charlie Rose, and PBS