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. Stephen Wright Studies economics at Cambridge University, where he won the Adam Smith Prize and achieved the highest First Class degree of his year. He spent several years as Chief Economic Forecaster with the Bank of England, where he headed macroeconomic forecasting and the maintenance and development of the bank's quarterly model of the UK economy. He currently is on the Faculty of Economics and Politics at Cambridge University. His work, along with Mr. Smither's, has been cited in the New York Times, Barron's, Forbes, The Economist, and the Financial Times.