David Smick keeps a low profile, but experts consider him one of the most insightful financial market strategists in the world. For more than two decades, he has conferred with central bankers (such as Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke) and advised top Wall Street executives and investors, from George Soros to Michael Steinhardt to Stan Druckenmiller. Political leaders (from Bill Bradley to Jack Kemp) have regularly sought his policy advice.

The World Is Curved picks up where Thomas Friedman’s The World Is Flat left off, taking readers on an insider’s tour through the private offices of central bankers, finance ministers, even prime ministers. Smick reveals how today’s risky environment came to be—and why the mortgage mess is a symptom of potentially far more devastating trouble. He wrestles with the two questions on everyone’s mind: How bad could things really get in today’s volatile economy? And what can we do about it?

Drawing on riveting anecdotes in language anyone can understand, Smick explains:

• Why the churning cauldron we call China (the next great bubble to burst) represents a powerful threat to everyone’s pocketbook

• How Japanese housewives have taken control of their nation’s savings, and why it matters to us

• How greed-driven bankers and investment bankers have put everyone’s pensions and 401(k)s at risk

• Why today’s “incredible shrinking central banks” may not be able to save us when the next crisis hits

• Why the big-money Russian, Chinese, Saudi, and Dubai sovereign wealth funds represent a tectonic shift in global financial power, away from the United States, Europe, and Japan

• Why the world desperately needs a “big think” financial doctrine to guide today’s dangerous ocean of money

The World Is Curved is the rare book that speaks simultaneously to the Wall Street, Washington, and London elite, yet its apt storytelling shows Main Street readers how to survive in these turbulent times.

他是一位传奇人物……

他是美国民主党和共和党两党总统候选人的经济问题高级咨询顾问，他还是索罗斯、迈克尔•斯坦哈特、路易斯•培根等传奇金融投资大师的业务顾问。他被业界同行称为“最了解世界经济和金融”的人物。

他有着传奇般的经历……

他是与全球经济与金融接触最紧密的人，他与新加坡前总理李光耀、日本前首相桥本龙太朗和竹下登、欧洲银行行长、格林斯潘、伯南克都有过亲密接触；他从自己的从业经历中告诉了我们为什么是世界是弯的。

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