Noah Smith is an economist, writer, and investor, and the author of Noahpinion, one of the most widely read economics publications on Substack, with more than 400,000 subscribers. Publishing around four to five times a week, he writes about economics, technology and AI, US policy, and geopolitics. He is also the author of “Weeb Economy”, a book about strategies for reviving Japan’s economy. Noah studied physics at Stanford and earned a PhD in economics from the University of Michigan. He was an assistant professor of finance at Stony Brook University and later a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion. He lived in Japan for several years, still travels there often, and has written extensively about the country’s economy, startup ecosystem, and place in the world. He is also an active angel investor. Noah lives in San Francisco.