Michael Smith is an award-winning investigative reporter at Bloomberg Businessweek and Bloomberg News. His stories document financial crimes, the business of narcotics and human trafficking, and environmental and labor abuses in corporate supply chains.

Smith has won dozens of awards over his long career, including the prestigious George Polk, Maria Moors Cabot, Robert F. Kennedy, Gerald Loeb and Overseas Press Club prizes. Recently, he has reported on Covid outbreaks on cruise ships, drug cartels in Colombia and Mexico, money laundering and corporate malfeasance in Miami and Bitcoin mining in Texas. He is based in Miami. Cabin Fever is his first book.

Twitter: @SmithMarkets.