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Danielle DiMartino Booth is an American economist and financial commentator, and the CEO and Chief Strategist of QI Research (formerly Quill Intelligence), the Dallas-based macro research firm she founded in 2015. She spent nine years at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas as advisor to President Richard W. Fisher through the financial crisis until his 2015 retirement, having earlier worked in fixed income, public equity and private equity at Credit Suisse and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and written a financial column for the Dallas Morning News. She is the author of "Fed Up: An Insider's Take on Why the Federal Reserve is Bad for America" (Portfolio, 2017), publishes the institutional Weekly Quill and Quick Quill via QI Pro plus the retail-facing Daily Feather on Substack, and appears regularly on Bloomberg, CNBC and Fox Business. Third-party trackers put her X following at roughly 336K, and her YouTube channel showed about 125K subscribers as of July 2026.
