# SMITH'S RESEARCH \& GRADINGS: Smith\`S Research \& Gradings, founded by Terence Smith in 1992, has become a bellwether research company, often predicting significant trends and spotlighting controversial subjects months before they come to light elsewhere\. From its inception, Smith’s Research \& Gradings has championed independent, third\-party credit analytics\. In 1994, Smith’s Research \& Gradings launched the world’s first comprehensive credit scale for the global fixed income markets\. Smith's analysis is an indispensable part of Wall Street and the world's capital markets\.

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## Articles
- [War, Debt and the Fed](https://smithsresearch.net/article/war-debt-and-the-fed/)
- [What Can Artificial Intelligence Do for You?](https://smithsresearch.net/article/what-can-artificial-intelligence-do-for-you/): Can Artificial intelligence deliver for municipal bond analysts? The answer is a resounding yes\! But, the first challenge for the municipal bond analyst is to maximize the beneficial aspects of AI rather than view it as a competitor, or as a longer\-term replacement\.
- [U\.S\. Economy — The Great Uncertainty](https://smithsresearch.net/article/u-s-economy-the-great-uncertainty/): Forecasting the U\.S\. economy has become much more challenging, increasingly akin to reading tea leaves than analyzing the results of finely tuned algorithmic models\. Part of the problem is that the U\.S\. economy has drifted into the Great Uncertainty, which is being defined by a multitude of contradictory data signals, a greater emphasis on state\-led industrial policy \(with massive amounts of money being pumped into targeted sectors over a relatively short period of time\), and the popping\-up of unexpected geopolitical problems\.

## Conference Archives
- [National Infrastructure Finance and Construction Summit](https://smithsresearch.net/conference-archive/national-infrastructure-finance-and-construction-summit/)
- [Smith’s High Yield Municipal Bond Conference](https://smithsresearch.net/conference-archive/smiths-high-yield-municipal-bond-conference/): October 24\-26, 2023, Hyatt Regency Greenwich, Old Greenwich, Connecticut
- [Smith's Affordable Housing Finance Conference](https://smithsresearch.net/conference-archive/smiths-affordable-housing-finance-conference/)
- [Smith’s All\-Star Municipal Analysts Awards](https://smithsresearch.net/conference-archive/smiths-all-star-municipal-analysts-awards/): December 4, 2024, The View at the Battery, New York, New York

## Conferences
- [Smith's High Yield Municipal Bond Conference](https://smithsresearch.net/conference/smiths-municipal-all-bond-conference-2026/): Financing the infrastructure of tomorrow through today's high yield municipal bond market\.
- [Smith’s All\-Star Municipal Analyst Awards](https://smithsresearch.net/conference/smiths-municipal-all-starawards/): Providing recognition for the nation's best and brightest since 1992\.
- [Infrastructure Finance and Resiliency Conference](https://smithsresearch.net/conference/smiths-infrastructure/): Funding New Infrastructure and Defending the Future
- [Smith's Affordable Housing Finance Conference](https://smithsresearch.net/conference/smiths-affordable-housing-finance-conference/): At Smith's Affordable Housing Finance Conference, many of the nation’s largest institutional investors, together with the State HFA finance executives from across the country and other housing market experts, will focus on ways to produce more affordable mortgage loans and foster the trust necessary to rebuild an active secondary market for State HFA bonds\.

## Publication Articles
- [The Re\-Electrification of the U\.S\. Nation](https://smithsresearch.net/publication-article/the-re-electrification-of-the-u-s-nation/)
- [Capital Campaigns Are a Valuable Tool for Higher Education Institutions](https://smithsresearch.net/publication-article/capital-campaigns-are-a-valuable-tool-for-higher-education-institutions/)
- [High Yield: Brightline](https://smithsresearch.net/publication-article/high-yield-brightline/)
- [Infrastructure Finance: What Investors Want](https://smithsresearch.net/publication-article/infrastructure-finance-what-investors-want/)
- [How to Finance America's Infrastructure With Municipal Bonds](https://smithsresearch.net/publication-article/how-to-finance-americas-infrastructure-with-municipal-bonds/)

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