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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. She is also the author of The Daily Reckoning's Weekend Edition, a weekly wrap-up of contrarian investment analysis.
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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.
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Eric Fry full bio  Eric J. Fry, The Rude Awakening's 'man-on-the-scene' in New York, 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.
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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.
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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.
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Craig Walters full bio  Craig Walters has spent the last ten years entrenched in the investment industry and doing what he loves best: performing financial research on scores of companies and writing about it. As one of our esteemed Small-Cap gurus, Craig is the Managing Editor of several Agora Financial newsletters, including Small-Cap Strategy Report and Small-Cap Insider.
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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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Kevin Kerr full bio 
Kevin Kerr's unparalleled expertise in futures and commodities has made him a regular contributor to news outlets like CNN, FOX News, CBS Evening News, Nightly Business Report and many others. Now, as editor of Resource Trader Alert, he uses his extensive knowledge and connections to uncover blockbuster natural resource investments - everything in the world of commodities using options on futures and occasionally resource equities, too.
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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.
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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.
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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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Dr. Kurt Richebächer full bio 
Dr. Kurt Richebächer has articles appear regularly in The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, the U.S. edition of Capital and Crisis and other respected financial publications. France's Le Figaro magazine did a feature story on him as "the man who predicted the Asian crisis."
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Christopher Hancock full bio  Christopher Hancock has spent the last two years doing investment research primarily focused on emerging markets, specifically China and Hong Kong. After working with Citigroup in Hong Kong on the challenges and opportunities associated with the forthcoming RBM flotation reform, Christopher left many of his friends behind and decided to return to the States to pursue a career in equity research.
Christopher's desire to work for an independent firm led him to Agora Financial, where he now is the editor of Free Market Investor. Christopher travels extensively and utilizes his contacts across the globe to recommend the best international investments in the world right now for his subscribers.
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Puru Saxena full bio Puru Saxena is the editor and publisher of Money Matters, an economic and financial publication available at www.purusaxena.com An investment adviser based in Hong Kong, he is a regular guest on CNN, BBC World, CNBC, Bloomberg TV & Radio, NDTV, RTHK Radio 3 and writes for several newspapers and financial journals. The above is an excerpt from Money Matters, a monthly economic publication, which highlights extraordinary' investment opportunities in all major markets. In addition to the monthly reports, subscribers also benefit from timely and concise "Email Updates", which are sent out when an important development in the capital markets warrants immediate attention. Subscribe Today!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Dr. Hans Sennholz full bio Dr. Hans Sennholz is president emeritus of The Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) in Irvington, NY. His essays and articles have appeared in over thirty-six major German journals and newspapers, and 500 more that reach American audiences.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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'!".
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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.
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