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Bill Bonner full bio  Bill Bonner is the founder and president of Agora Publishing, one of the world's most successful consumer newsletter publishing companies, and the author of the free daily e-mail The Daily Reckoning. He's also a frequent contributor to Strategic Investment.
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Addison Wiggin full bio  Addison Wiggin is the editorial director and publisher of The Daily Reckoning. Mr. Wiggin is also the author, with Bill Bonner, of the international best sellers Financial Reckoning Day and Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis.
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Kate Incontrera full bio  Kate Incontrera is the Managing Editor of The Daily Reckoning. Ms. Incontrera was also an associate producer and writer on the critically-acclaimed documentary film, I.O.U.S.A. Before joining Agora Financial in 2004, Ms. Incontrera studied writing at The University of Cambridge and at Towson University in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Joel Bowman
The newest member of The Rude Awakening team hails from the golden sands of Mermaid Beach, Australia. After becoming cloyed with his diet of sun, sand and surf, Joel traded his flip-flops for the promise of gray skies, armed neighbors and darker beer. In short, he headed for Baltimore. A journalism graduate, Joel enjoys dusty books, traveling on a nickel and a dime and the guidance of his senior editors, Eric Fry and Addison Wiggin. |
Eric Fry full bio Eric J. Fry, has been a specialist in international equities since the early 1980s. He was a professional portfolio manager for more than 10 years and authored the first comprehensive guide to American Depositary Receipts, International Investing with ADRs. |
Dan Denning full bio
 Dan Denning started his financial career the old fashioned way – on the ground floor. He founded and edited a private financial newsletter on small-capitalization stocks in 1998, leading over 35,000 subscribers to profits in dynamic new American companies during the height of the bull market. |
Dan Amoss full bio Dan Amoss, CFA is managing editor for Strategic Investment and a contributing editor for Whiskey & Gunpowder. Dan joined Agora Financial from Investment Counselors of Maryland, investment advisor for one of the top small-cap value mutual funds over the past 15 years. |
Chris Mayer full bio  Christopher Mayer is the editor of Capital and Crisis (formerly the Fleet Street Letter), and his contrarian essays have appeared on a number of Web sites and publications, including, The Mises Institute, the Freeman, The Daily Reckoning, GoldEagle.com, LewRockwell.com, FiendBear.com, PrudentBear.com, Grant's Investor and Individual Investor Magazine. His views on financial matters have also been widely quoted, including in the highly regarded Grant's Interest Rate Observer.
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Byron King full bio Byron King currently serves as an attorney in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He received his Juris Doctor from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 1981 and is a cum laude graduate of Harvard University. Byron is also co-editor of Outstanding Investments. |
Chuck Butler full bio 
Chuck Butler, is the author of The Daily Pfennig, which is republished here at The Daily Reckoning. His respected analysis is frequently quoted in or referenced by: the Wall Street Journal, U.S. News and World Report, CBS Market Watch, USA Today, CNNfn, the Chicago Tribune and many other publications. |
The Mogambo Guru full bio 
The Mogambo Guru, is general partner and COO for Smith Consultant Group, serving the financial and medical communities, and the writer/publisher of the Mogambo Guru economic newsletter, an avocational exercise to better heap disrespect on those who desperately deserve it. The Mogambo Guru is quoted frequently in Barron's, The Daily Reckoning, and other fine publications. |
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Puru Saxena full bio Puru Saxena is the founder of Puru Saxena Limited, his Hong Kong based firm which manages investment portfolios for high net-worth individuals and corporate clients. Puru also publishes Money Matters, a widely read economic and financial report available from www.purusaxena.com
He is a highly showcased investment manager and a regular guest on CNN, BBC World, CNBC, Bloomberg, NDTV and various radio programmes.
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Dr. Mark Skousen full bio Dr. Mark Skousen is a professional economist, financial advisor, university professor, and author of over 20 books. Dr. Skousen has taught economics and finance at Columbia Business School, Barnard College at Columbia University, and Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. In April 2005, Grantham University honored Dr. Skousen by renaming its School of Business "The Mark Skousen School of Business." In 2001-02, he was president of the Foundation of Economic Education (FEE) in New York. Mark Skousen is editor of Forecasts & Strategies, and editor of a new free e-letter called "The Worldly Philosophers." For details, go to www.worldlyphilosophers.com. |
Bob Bauman full bio
Bob E. Bauman, J.D. is a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Maryland and the author of several books on offshore financial topics. Mr. Bauman serves as legal counsel to The Sovereign Society, an international group of citizens concerned with government encroachment on financial freedom. |
Dan Ferris full bio Dan Ferris has spent over ten years studying the commodities markets, making countless correct predictions about the price moves of electricity, oil, natural gas and coal in the process. An expert in the field of distributed power generation, Dan serves as a member of PirateInvestor.com's key research team. In his monthly advisory service, Extreme Value, Dan seeks out promising companies trading far below their current worth. |
Doug Casey full bio Doug Casey , author of the best-selling books Strategic Investing, Crisis Investing and Crisis Investing for the Rest of the 90's, has lived in seven countries and visited over 100 more. He has appeared on scores of major radio and TV shows and remains an active speculator in the stock, bond, commodity, and real estate markets around the world. |
Gary North full bio Gary North, at the age of 25, was the youngest elected member of the Economists' National Committee on Monetary Policy. He has served as a senior staff member of the Foundation for Economic Education and as a research assistant to U.S. Congressman Ron Paul. |
John Mauldin full bio John Mauldin is the creative force behind the Millennium Wave investment theory, JohnMauldin.com, author of the weekly economic e-mail Thoughts from the Frontline, and a private letter for accredited investors. As well as being a frequent contributor to Captial & Crisis and Strategic Investment, Mr. Mauldin is a New York Times best-selling author with a unique ability to present complex financial topics and make them understandable to the lay reader with insights into the current economy and hedge fund industry. His lastest book, Just One Thing, is due out in December. |
John Pugsley full bio John Pugsley is chairman of The Sovereign Society , author of numerous books and reports on economics, investment and politics, and former editor of John Pugsley's Journal. Mr. Pugsley's first book, Common Sense Economics (1974), sold over 150,000 hardcover copies. In that book he accurately predicted the inflationary explosion that followed the final U.S. abandonment of the gold standard in the early 1970s. |
Karim Rahemtulla full bio Karim Rahemtulla, dubbed a "market maven" by CNBC, is one of the country's top stock experts, as well as the Oxford Club's options expert. He is the founder and host of one of the biggest options events in the country - the Agora Wealth Options Seminar. |
Lord William Rees-Mogg full bio Lord William Rees-Mogg is the former Editor-in-Chief for The Times of London and a member of the House of Lords. Lord Rees-Mogg has been credited with accurately forecasting glasnost, the fall of the Berlin Wall, as well as the 1987 crash. |
Dr. Marc Faber full bio Dr. Marc Faber is the editor of The Gloom, Boom and Doom Report and a major contributor to Strategic Investment. Dr. Faber has been headquartered in Hong Kong for nearly 20 years, during which time he has specialized in Asian markets and advised major clients seeking down-and-out bargains with deep hidden value--unknown to the average investing public--bargains with immense upside potential. |
Mark Nestmann full bio Mark Nestmann is a leading writer and speaker on offshore topics and financial and personal privacy issues. U.S. Congressman Ron Paul (R-Tx) describes him as "Mr. Privacy." He is the author of many books, including the well-regarded How to Achieve Financial Privacy in a Public Age, Privacy 2000, and Asset Protection 2000. |
Nassim Nicholas Taleb full bio Nassim Nicholas Taleb is an essayist principally concerned with the problems of uncertainty and knowledge. Taleb's interests lie at the intersection of philosophy, mathematics, finance, literature and cognitive science, but he has stayed extremely close to the ground, thanks to an uninterrupted two-decade career as a mathematical trader. |
Rick Barnard full bio
Rick Barnard is a financial writer based in Baltimore, Maryland. He’s the Editor of Agora Financial and Associate Editor of The Richebächer Letter. He also does behind-the-scenes editing & writing for newsletters like Outstanding Investments and The Fleet Street Letter. |
Dr. Ron Paul full bio Dr. Ron Paul is a Republican member of Congress from Texas and perhaps the only voice in Washington still advocating "limited" government in the Jeffersonian tradition. He delivered several stunning addresses before Congress in the year 2003, including: "Sorry, Mr. Franklin, We Are All Democrats Now" and "We've Been 'Neo-Conned'!". |
Dr. Steve Sjuggerud full bio Dr. Steve Sjuggerud has worked in the investment world as a stockbroker, the vice president of a $50 million global mutual fund, an international hedge fund manager, and the director of several research departments. An international currency expert, he is also a member of the Oxford Club advisory panel. |
