David Smick

[3] In 1985, as a private consultant, Smick co-organized a series of prominent global monetary "summits", sponsored by both the U.S. Senate and House leadership, involving the industrialized world's finance ministers, central bankers, and foreign exchange experts.

The first summit set the stage for the official 1985 Plaza Accord, the G5 agreement among the major industrialized nations to bring down the value of the dollar during heightened trade tensions.

In 2020 (with help from Academy Award-winning director Barry Levinson who served as executive producer), Smick wrote and directed Stars and Strife, a full-length documentary that predicted a coming tidal wave of political, social, and economic division in America and throughout the industrialized world.

Smick′s first bestseller, The World Is Curved (2008), has been published in 32 languages and was described by David Brooks of the New York Times as ″astonishingly prescient.″[4] The book discussed the financial perils of globalization and questioned whether the Wall Street banks were in full understanding of the values of the assets on their balance sheets.

President Bill Clinton called it ″one of the three best books on the financial crisis.″ Smick's second bestseller, The Great Equalizer: How Main Street Capitalism Can Create an Economy for Everyone, argues that a ruthless corporate elite with deep political connections is rigging American capitalism, making it less dynamic and fair, producing a dangerous decline in social mobility and the loss of the American Dream.