Andrew Smithers is founder of Smithers & Co., which provides economics-based asset allocation advice to 70 of the world's largest fund management companies in London, New York, Boston, and Tokyo. He is a columnist for London's Evening Standard and the Tokyo Nikkei Kinnyu ShimbUn Market Eye, and is regularly quoted in the New York Times, Barron's, Forbes, The Economist, The Independent, and the Financial Times.