D H Smith
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| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | Researcher, Writer, Analyst |
| Location | Mt. Freedom, NJ, United States |
| Introduction | Chinese-speaking American, years of international business and finance experience, involved in Chinese financial markets since inception. Current industry focus includes consumer products, apparel retail, action sports and the gear for them, and real estate securities. As a stock analyst I covered Nike and VF Corp; watching Volcom, Quiksilver, & PacSun with great interest. Formerly wrote the morning line column for Forbes' Best of the Web financial site worldlyinvestor.com. My picture even appeared in “Forbes ASAP”. OK, it was about 1/8 of an inch square, but it was still my picture! Licensed for real estate sales in NJ; experience in investment/commercial, expert in 1031 exchanges, active in the northern half of the state but networked to trusted partners all over the country. True to my schools: Columbia Business School, University of Delaware, and Trinity College School. |
| Interests | China, finance, financial crisis, emerging markets, stocks, bonds, currencies, commodities, South America, board sports, surfing, skateboarding, retail, apparel, luxury goods, real estate, wine, spirits, Argentina, Uruguay, history, military history, literature, Chinese classics, Chinese language, language learning, sports |
| Favorite Movies | Braveheart, Red Sorghum, Eat Drink Man Woman, Dr. Zhivago, The Year of Living Dangerously, Lawrence of Arabia, Casablanca |
| Favorite Music | Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, Cartel, Wheatus, Green Day, Baiyun Guan, The Color Fred, K.T. Tunstall, Bob Marley, Bad Company, Taj Mahal, Howlin' Wolf, Ray Charles, The Clash |
| Favorite Books | Negotiating China by Caroline Blackman, Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, Tao Te Ching by Laozi, The Art of War by Sunzi, Analects by Confucius, Strategy by B.H. Liddell Hart, The Money Game by Adam Smith, Stilwell and the American Experience in China by Barbara Tuchman, The Stilwell Papers, The Way of Chuang Tzu by Thomas Merton, The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Ugly American, Tristram Shandy by Lawrence Sterne, Heart of Darkness by Jospeh Conrad, The Poems of W. B. Yeats, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig, Coming Up For Air by George Orwell, I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe, You Can Negotiate Anything by Herb Cohen, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, many others |
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