David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist on the MB Fund and MB Tremendous. David is the founding writer and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding writer and world financial system editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s main geo-politics and economics portal.

He’s additionally a former gold dealer and financial commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Enterprise Spectator. He’s the co-author of The Nice Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Local weather Change Overview.