Matthew Robson's opinions have been pored over this week everywhere from the Huffington Post to The Hindu. He has been blogged on, twittered about and discussed anxiously in boardrooms and investment offices around the world. Tabloid journalists have offered money for his story. Not bad for a kid aged 15 years and seven months whose summer holidays started on Saturday.
Two weeks ago, Mr Robson was pretty pleased at being one of half a dozen London schoolchildren to secure a work experience placement at Morgan Stanley's Canary Wharf offices.
Such positions usually go to the friends and family members of well-connected bankers. In Mr Robson's case, the networking was done by his whippet, Rudy, who dragged his mother into conversation with the wife of one of Morgan Stanley's media analysts while both walked their dogs in Greenwich Park.