Noah Smith is the author of Noahpinion, one of Substack's most popular blogs. Previously, he was was a columnist a Bloomberg, and before that was an assistant professor of finance at Stony Brook University. He received his Ph.D. in economics in 2012 from the University of Michigan, having written his dissertation on expectation formation in financial markets. His blog was named a top 100 economics blog in 2017 by The Intelligent Economist. Even more impressively, Focus Economics named Noah the seventh most important economic influencer in the world.