Contributors

Bill Bonner

Since founding Agora Inc. in 1979, Bill Bonner has found success and garnered camaraderie in numerous communities and industries. A man of many talents, his entrepreneurial savvy, unique writings, philanthropic undertakings, and preservationist activities have all been recognized and awarded by some of America's most respected authorities. Along with Addison Wiggin, his friend and colleague, Bill has written two New York Times best-selling books, Financial Reckoning Day and Empire of Debt. Both works have been critically acclaimed internationally. With political journalist Lila Rajiva, he wrote his third New York Times best-selling book, Mobs, Messiahs and Markets, which offers concrete advice on how to avoid the public spectacle of modern finance. Since 1999, Bill has been a daily contributor and the driving force behind The Daily Reckoning. Dice Have No Memory: Big Bets & Bad Economics from Paris to the Pampas, the newest book from Bill Bonner, is the definitive compendium of Bill’s daily reckonings from more than a decade: 1999-2010. 

Addison Wiggin

Addison Wiggin is the executive publisher of Agora Financial, LLC, a fiercely independent economic forecasting and financial research firm. He’s the creator and editorial director of Agora Financial’s daily 5 Min. Forecast and editorial director of The Daily Reckoning. Wiggin is the founder of Agora Entertainment, executive producer and co-writer of I.O.U.S.A., which was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, the 2009 Critics Choice Award for Best Documentary Feature, and was also shortlisted for a 2009 Academy Award. He is the author of the companion book of the film I.O.U.S.A.and his second edition of The Demise of the Dollar… and Why it’s Even Better for Your Investments was just fully revised and updated. Wiggin is a three-time New York Times best-selling author whose work has been recognized by The New York Times Magazine, The Economist, Worth, The New York Times, The Washington Post as well as major network news programs. He also co-authored international bestsellers Financial Reckoning Day and Empire of Debt with Bill Bonner.

Eric Fry

Eric J. Fry, Agora Financial’s Editorial Director, has been a specialist in international equities for nearly two decades. He was a professional portfolio manager for more than 10 years, specializing in international investment strategies and short-selling.  Following his successes in professional money management, Mr. Fry joined the Wall Street-based publishing operations of James Grant, editor of the prestigious Grant's Interest Rate Observer. Working alongside Grant, Mr. Fry produced Grant's International and Apogee Research —  institutional research products dedicated to international investment opportunities and short selling. 

Mr. Fry subsequently joined Agora Inc., as Editorial Director. In this role, Mr. Fry  supervises the editorial and research processes of numerous investment letters and services. Mr. Fry also publishes investment insights and commentary under his own byline as Editor of The Daily Reckoning. Mr. Fry authored the first comprehensive guide to investing internationally with American Depository Receipts.  His views and investment insights have appeared in numerous publications including Time, Barron's, Wall Street Journal, International Herald Tribune, Business Week, USA Today, Los Angeles Times and Money.

Joel Bowman

Joel Bowman is managing editor of The Daily Reckoning. After completing his degree in media communications and journalism in his home country of Australia, Joel moved to Baltimore to join the Agora Financial team. His keen interest in travel and macroeconomics first took him to New York where he regularly reported from Wall Street, and he now writes from and lives all over the world.

Greg Kadajski

Greg Kadajski is the Associate Editor of The Daily Reckoning. He holds a BS from Towson University where he studied both English and Filmmaking. Since joining Agora Financial in 2006, he’s been very closely involved in the overall production of The Daily Reckoning - reading, editing and occasionally contributing to the wide variety of material that appears in its pages. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

Dan Amoss

Dan Amoss, CFA, is a student of the Austrian school of economics, a discipline that he uses to identify imbalances in specific sectors of the market. He tracks aggressive accounting and other red flags that the market typically misses. Amoss is a Maryland native, a graduate of Loyola University Maryland, and earned his CFA charter in 2005. In spring 2008, he recommended Lehman Brothers puts, advising readers to hold the position as the stock fell from $45 to $12. Amoss is managing editor of the Strategic Short Report.

Ray Blanco

Ray Blanco was in his basement learning how to build what’s called a “Wilson Cloud Chamber” – a supercooled device for detecting particles of ionizing radiation. Now, he is an expert in advanced robotics, avionics, genomics, and biotechnology. Blanco was raised in Miami,FL, after his family fled Cuba in the 1960s. He is co-editor of Technology Profits Confidential and contributes to Breakthrough Technology Alert and Penny Sleuth.

Abe Cofnas

Abe Cofnas is Agora Financial's pioneering expert in two investment fields -- sentiment analysis and binary options. In fact, he literally wrote the book on them: Sentiment Indicators (2010) and Trading Binary Options (2012). Today his Fear & Greed Trader shows readers how to break the market down to its most basic forces... and how binary options can play those forces easily and inexpensively. Abe also ranks among the top Foreign Exchange (Forex) traders working today. Not only has he written two books on the subject, but he has also written 100 pieces for Futures Magazine's Forex Trader column since 2001.

Patrick Cox

Patrick Cox brings two decades of experience in software, public policy, medical economics and biotechnology to the Agora Financial table. He is editor of the Breakthrough Technology Alert and Technology Profits Confidential, as well as a contributor to the Penny Sleuth. Cox, who spent his early childhood on the Crow Indian Reservation in Montana, studied at Boise State University and has written for USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times and Reason Magazine. Cox has also been featured in The Baltimore Sun and CNBC Business Magazine.

Dan Denning

Dan Denning is the author of 2005's best-selling The Bull Hunter. A specialist in small-cap stocks, Dan draws on his network of global contacts from his base in Melbourne, Australia, and is a frequent contributor to The Daily Reckoning Australia .

Jonas Elmerraji

A big-four public accounting alum, Jonas Elmerraji brings his readers extensive expertise in small-cap stocks and broad market moves. Elmerraji’s interest in the market started with an investing course in elementary school – today he holds a degree in financial economics from UMBC and specializes in blending fundamental and technical analysis. Elmerraji has contributed to Forbes, TheStreet.com, and Investors Business Daily among others. He is managing editor of the Penny Sleuth, Penny Momentum Trader, and a co-editor of Penny Stock Fortunes.

Gary Gibson

Gary Gibson is the managing editor for Whiskey and Gunpowder. He joins the Whiskey staff as a long-time fan and reader of both Whiskey and Gunpowder and The Daily Reckoning. A graduate of Fordham University, Gary now spends his days reading about and writing on limited government, sound money, personal responsibility and resource investing.

Dave Gonigam

Treading a fine line between contrarian thinking and conspiracy theory, Dave Gonigam explores the nexus of finance, politics, and the media for Agora Financial's 5 Minute Forecast. He joined kindred spirits at Agora Financial in 2007 after a 20-year career as an Emmy award-winning writer, producer, and manager in local TV newsrooms nationwide.

Greg Guenthner

Greg Guenthner heads Agora Financial’s small-cap division and is the founder of one of the only independent OTC research advisories in the industry. A graduate of George Mason University, Guenthner joined Agora in 2005 after several years as a journalist. He is managing editor of Penny Stock Fortunes and Bulletin Board Elite; and contributes to Penny Sleuth.

Kate Incontrera

Kate "Short Fuse" Incontrera is a regular contributor to 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.

Matt Insley

The Managing Editor of the Daily Resource Hunter, Matt is the Agora Financial in-house specialist on commodities and natural resources.  He holds a degree from the University of Maryland with a double major in Business and Environmental Economics.  Although always familiar with the financial markets, his main area of expertise stems from his background in the Agricultural and Natural Resources (AGNR) department.  Over the past years he’s stayed well ahead of the curve with forward thinking ideas in both resource stocks and hard commodities. Insley's commentary has been featured by MarketWatch.

Byron King

Byron King is the managing editor of Outstanding Investments and Energy & Scarcity Investor. He is a Harvard-trained geologist who has traveled to every U.S. state and territory and six of the seven continents. He has conducted site visits to mineral deposits in 26 countries and deep-water oil fields in five oceans. This provides him with a unique perspective on the myriad of investment opportunities in energy and mineral exploration. He has been interviewed by dozens of major print and broadcast media outlets including The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, MSN Money, MarketWatch, Fox Business News, and PBS Newshour.

Alan Knuckman

Alan Knuckman brings two decades of commodity trading experience to his role as managing editor of Resource Trader Alert, a weekly newsletter providing analysis and real-time updates on current and evolving market conditions. Graduating with a business degree from Michigan State University, he worked for a premier trading firm and the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) where he rapidly learned all aspects of the futures industry. He currently holds series 4 and 24 securities registration credentials. His options, futures, and currencies experience have made him a sought after commentator on issues shaping both hard (extracted or mined) and soft (grown or produced through the agriculture industry) commodities. He is a frequent guest on major international media outlets including CNBC, Sky News, MarketWatch, Bloomberg, Fox Business Network, CNN Money, and Reuters.

Chris Mayer

Chris Mayer is managing editor of the Capital and Crisis and Mayer’s Special Situations newsletters. Graduating magna cum laude with a degree in finance and an MBA from the University of Maryland, he began his business career as a corporate banker. Mayer left the banking industry after ten years and signed on with Agora Financial. His book, Invest Like a Dealmaker, Secrets of a Former Banking Insider, documents his ability to analyze macro issues and micro investment opportunities to produce an exceptional long-term track record of winning ideas. In April 2012 Chris will release his newest book World Right Side Up: Investing Across Six Continents. 

Jim Nelson

Jim Nelson began his investing career during the tech boom at age 14 – with purchases of Starbucks and AOL. Early inspiration came from an old Tweedy Brown whitepaper: “What Works in the Market.” He graduated with a degree in Political Science from Pittsburgh University, Nelson focuses on income investing, including dividends, covered calls, and fixed-income. Additionally, he covers MLPs, ADRs, utilities, consumer staples and tobacco. Nelson is the managing editor of Lifetime Income Report.

Rob Parenteau

Rob Parenteau edits The Richebächer Letter, founded by the late Dr. Kurt Richebächer. Each issue provides an examination of the world’s currency and credit markets. Previously, he spent 24 years as Chief U.S. Economist and Investment Strategist for RCM Capital Management, an asset management firm. Rob holds a CFA and was appointed a Research Associate at The Levy Economics Institute in 2006. His papers have been presented at the Political Economy Research Institute, the Seventh and Eighth Annual Post Keynesian International Workshop, and the Eastern Economic Association.

Michael Pento

Michael Pento spent the early years of his career on the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Two decades later, he has become one of the most controversial analysts critiquing federal monetary policies and other macroeconomic issues. He is a highly sought-after specialist in the Austrian School of economics.

Pento is a financial columnist for Forbes and a blogger for the Huffington Post.  His market analysis and commentary can be found regularly in the Wall Street Journal, as well as on Yahoo! Finance, CNBC, FOX Business News, Bloomberg, and other national media outlets. Prior to joining Agora Financial, he was a member of an investment advisory firm where he developed ETF and UIT products. Pento graduated from Rowan University in 1991.

Steve Sarnoff

Steve Sarnoff has been the editor of Options Hotline since 1999, taking over the role of his father: legendary author, researcher and options expert Paul Sarnoff. He pioneered the use of the Japanese candlestick charting technique - an ancient and accurate style of technical analysis that was virtually unknown to Western traders until just a few decades ago. He currently runs Sarnoff Samurai Strategies, Inc., based in San Diego.

Jeffrey Tucker

Jeffrey Tucker is the publisher and executive editor of Laissez-Faire Books, and the author of Bourbon for Breakfast: Living Outside the Statist Quo and It's a Jetsons World: Private Miracles and Public Crimes, among thousands of articles.

Rocky Vega

Rocky Vega is publisher of Agora Financial International, where he advances the growth of Agora Financial publishing enterprises outside of the US. Previously, he was publisher of The Daily Reckoning, and founding publisher of both UrbanTurf and RFID Update -- which he ran from Brazil, Chile, and Puerto Rico -- as well as associate publisher of FierceFinance. Rocky has an honors MS from the Stockholm School of Economics and an honors BA from Harvard University, where he served on the board of directors for Let’s Go Publications, Harvard Student Agencies, and The Harvard Advocate.

Adrian Ash

Formerly the City correspondent for The Daily Reckoning in London and head of editorial at Fleet Street Publications Ltd, the U.K.'s leading financial advisory for private investors. Adrian Ash is also the editor of Gold News and head of research at BullionVault.

Matt Badiali

Matt Badiali is the editor of the The S&A Resource Report, a monthly investment advisory that focuses on the oil, energy, and mining sectors as investment – from small exploration outfits to equipment companies to the biggest resource companies in the world. Matt also writes S&A Junior Resource Trader, which focuses on the "bloodhounds" of the mining and energy industries – small old, copper, oil, diamond, and uranium miners – and how to earn thousands of percent in the coming years.

Matt has a Masters in Geology from Florida Atlantic University. He's spent the last five years flying all around the world for Stansberry Research, digging up the best resource investments for our readers.

Bill Baker

Bill Baker is author of Endless Money: The Moral Hazards of Socialism and founder of the Conservative Economist web site. He developed the firms GARP Research & Securities Co. and Gaineswood Investment Management. Before this he was at Reich & Tang, Oppenheimer Funds, and Van Kampen American Capital. An Oppenheimer fund he managed was awarded a Morningstar five-star rating. Baker received his MBA from Dartmouth College and his bachelor in economics from the University of Pennsylvania. He is vice president and a trustee of Baltimore's Harbour League.

Kevin Bambrough

Mr. Bambrough founded Sprott Resource Corp. in September 2007. He is a seasoned investment executive with more than a decade of industry experience and is a recognized leader in the natural resource sectors. Since 2009, Mr. Bambrough has also served as President of Sprott Inc., one of Canada’s leading asset managers with $10 billion in assets under management. Between 2003 and 2009, he held a number of positions with Sprott Asset Management, including Market Strategist, a role in which he devoted a significant portion of his time to examining global economic activity, geopolitics, and commodity markets in order to identify new trends and investment opportunities for Sprott Asset Management’s team of portfolio managers. In 2010, Kevin was ranked as #1 in Casey's NexTen list of next generation leaders in the natural resource industry. He also received an Honoury Chieftainship from the Blood Tribe in recognition for the valued partnership between the Tribe and One Earth Farms, a company founded by Mr. Bambrough.

Robert Bauman

Robert 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 including Where to Stash Your Cash Legally, The Complete Guide to Offshore Residency, Dual Citizenship and Second Passports, and The Offshore Money Manual 2000.

Steve Belmont

Steve Belmont is a founding partner and Senior Market Strategist for the RMB Group, which can be accessed at 807-345-7026 (toll free) and 312-373-4970 (direct). He is also managing editor of the exclusive alert service, Options Edge, as well as author of the popular RMB Short Course in Futures and Options and RMB Currency Trader. A featured speaker at many investment conferences, Steve has traded commodities and commodity options for over 25 years. In association with Options Edge, he provides exclusive research and recommendations to RMB Group customers.

Ralph Benko

Ralph Benko, a member of the bar of the State of New York, is Senior Advisor, Economics, of the American Principles Project, and was called by the United States Department of the Treasury to testify before the U.S. Gold Commission on the constitutional history of American monetary policy. He is also an Advisor for The Gold Standard Now and an important contributor to the Gold Standard 2012 project.

Jeff Berwick

Jeff Berwick, a self-described financial freedom fighter, is the founder of Canada’s largest financial website, Stockhouse.com.  He now writes the libertarian, Austrian-economics based newsletter, The Dollar Vigilante and is a regular speaker at many of the world’s most important investment, resource and freedom-focused conferences where he is known as the most dangerous man in finance.

Sioan Bethel

Mr. Bethel is a specialist in strategic, consensual business relationships, bridging the private, non-profit, and global sectors. Economics, political philosophy, and public policy, via Dartmouth College and the Milano graduate program of the New School for Social Research, compose his academic foundation while auto-didacticism comprises his life-long vocation. The Obama Memos are an outgrowth of Mr. Bethel’s letter, appearing in The Nation, March 27, 2008, in response to Jeff Faux’s essay, ‘Is This the Big One?’

Ed Bugos

Ed is a former Howe Street broker. During the late ’90s, while many Wall Street firms were abandoning commodities altogether, Ed toiled for his clients on the Vancouver Stock Exchange. He was able to make his clients money even during the most vicious bear market for gold in the past two generations. Ed is now excited to take his skills and knowledge of precious metals and apply them to one of the biggest bull markets history has ever seen.

Samantha Buker

Samantha Buker was born in Baltimore at the start of the "Reagan Revolution." She thinks Adam Smith is wrong because he believed that the individual man is a moral one.  She thinks Karl Marx is wrong because he believed Man as a collective was moral. She's always wanted to write a novel on the Great Depression...and now has the chance to write one about her own time. Miss Buker is associate editor of three Agora Financial publications: Capital & Crisis, Mayer's Special Situations, Strategic Short Report.  She's wanted to write for Whiskey readers since she first heard about Agora Financial.

Wayne Burritt

Wayne Burritt has spent over 28+ years as a financial writer, investment analyst and business developer. A natural teacher with a lot of knowledge to impart, Wayne takes great pride in sharing his expertise on the subject of options and investing with anyone willing to learn. Wayne believes that given the right teaching, anyone can become an expert in options.

Chuck Butler

Chuck Butler is President of EverBank® World Markets and the author of the popular Daily Pfennig newsletter, which is reposted here at The Daily Reckoning. With a career in investment services and currencies extending over 35 years, Mr. Butler oversees all aspects of customer service and the trading desk for EverBank World Markets. A respected analyst of the currency market, Mr. Butler has frequently made appearances or been quoted by the national media. These include the Wall Street Journal, US News and World Report, MarketWatch, USAToday, CNNfn, Bloomberg TV, CNBC, and the Chicago Tribune. Mr. Butler was previously the Chief International Bond Trader and Director of Risk Management for Mark Twain Bank, and has held significant positions in the investment industry since 1973.

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John Butler

John Butler has 17 years experience in the global financial industry, including European and US investment banks in London, New York and Germany. Recently, he was Managing Director and Head of the Index Strategies Group at Deutsche Bank in London, responsible for development and marketing of proprietary, index-based quantitative strategies in global interest rate markets. Prior to DB, John was Managing Director and Head of European Interest Rate Strategy at Lehman Brothers in London, where his team was voted #1 by Institutional Investor. He has contributed to financial publications including the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Boersenzeitung and Handelsblatt.

Doug Casey

Doug Casey of Casey Research, author of the best sellers 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. In his spare time, Doug engages in competitive shooting and plays polo.

Gerald Celente

Gerald Celente is founder and director of The Trends Research Institute, author of Trends 2000 and Trend Tracking (Warner Books), and publisher of The Trends Journal. He has been forecasting trends since 1980, and recently called “The Collapse of ’09.” Also a Close Combat practitioner and black belt trainer, Celente has made many media appearances including Oprah, CNN, The Today Show, Good Morning America, NBC Nightly News, C-Span, and CNBC. He has been cited in the Economist, Chicago Tribune, LA Times, Entrepreneur, USA Today, and many other publications.

Jeff Clark

Having worked on his family’s gold claims in California and Arizona, as well as a mine in a place to remain nameless, Jeff’s research and writing skills are utilized in his role as editor and one of the primary writers of Casey's Gold & Resource Report.

Whether it is researching new companies to recommend, analyzing the big trend in gold, or looking for other safe and profitable ways to capitalize on the bull market, Jeff is devoted to making Casey's Gold & Resource Report the best precious metals newsletter for the prudent investor. He coordinates the efforts among the research and writing team, ensuring that whatever is happening in the gold and silver market doesn’t escape coverage.

Douglas Clayton

Douglas Clayton founded Leopard Capital in 2007, and has over 25 years’ experience in emerging markets investments. As a senior executive at CLSA Securities, Indosuez WI Carr Securities, and Kerry Securities, he managed investment teams in Thailand, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, New York City, Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina, and Chile. In 1999 Douglas founded Abacus Equity Partners which arranged and participated in several of Thailand’s most successful private equity investments. He serves as Technical Advisor to the Director-General of the Securities & Exchange Commission of Cambodia, and Trustee of the Center for Khmer Studies. Douglas holds a MM from Thailand’s Chulalongkorn University and a BA (History) from Cornell University.

Bud Conrad

Mr. Conrad holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Yale and an MBA from Harvard. He has held positions with IBM, CDC, Amdahl, and Tandem. Currently, he serves as a local board member of the National Association of Business Economics and teaches graduate courses in investing at Golden Gate University. Bud Conrad, a futures investor for 25 years and a full-time investor for a decade, is also a regular lecturer for American Association of Individual Investors. In addition he produces original analysis for Casey Research, including unique charts and research on the economy and investment markets.

Peter Cooper

Peter Cooper is based in the Dubai Media City, and has been a senior journalist in the Middle East for more than a dozen years.

He was the founding editor of Gulf Business magazine in 1996 and a partner in the business news and information website www.ameinfo.com from 2000. His is also the author of the international best-seller Opportunity Dubai.

An Oxford graduate in politics and economics, Cooper spent a decade in London as a financial journalist specializing in real estate and construction from 1984-95, and is also the author of Building Relationships: The History of Bovis 1885-2000

Michael Covel

Michael Covel is an author, director, and founder of TurtleTrader.com. Covel’s books include the best selling Trend Following: Learn to Make Millions in Up or Down Markets, which has sold over 100,000 copies, and The Complete TurtleTrader: The Legend, the Lessons, the Results. Covel also wrote, directed, and produced the documentary film, Broke: The New American Dream. Covel has been interviewed by Bloomberg Radio, Technical Analysis Magazine, Barron’s, and others.

Romeo Dator

Romeo Dator joined the U.S. Global Investors investment team in 2002. Mr. Dator is a member of the portfolio management team for the All American Equity Fund (GBTFX), the China Region Fund (USCOX), the Holmes Growth Fund (ACBGX), the Global MegaTrends Fund (MEGAX), and the Global Emerging Markets Fund (GEMFX).  Mr. Dator uses both top-down factors and bottom-up analysis to manage the fund portfolios.

Prior to joining U.S. Global Investors, Mr. Dator was a senior equity analyst at USAA Investment Management Company where he was responsible for multiple sector coverage across all market capitalizations. He also developed quantitative screening models to aid in stock selection. Mr. Dator also served as an equity analyst at Barnett Capital Advisors in Florida.

Mr. Dator holds a master’s of business administration in finance from the Roy E. Crummer School of Business, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida. He also attended Duke University where he earned a bachelor of science degree in Psychology. Mr. Dator is a member of the CFA Society of San Antonio.

Murray Dawes

Murray began his career on the Sydney Futures Exchange trading floor in 1993 with Swiss Banking Corporation (SBC). He spent a couple of years in the 3 and 10 year bond and option pits before moving on to the Share Price Index (SPI) futures and options pit. From there he became a broker with SBC specializing in SPI futures and options to institutional clients.

After leaving SBC Murray continued his career in broking at Bankers Trust Australia. Then in 2001 Murray moved to Melbourne to work as a hedge fund trader for one of Australia’s wealthiest families. In 2003 he was ready to set up his own firm providing the same proprietary technical trading system to some of Australia’s boutique hedge funds. The success of Murray’s system led to him trading a $10 million account for a high net worth individual. This involved trading Australian and US futures and Australian stocks.

Murray now heads up the technical analysis desk for the Australian Daily Reckoning, passing on to readers some of his experience from 16 years of trading.

Ajit Dayal

Mr. Dayal founded Quantum Advisors, India’s first equity research house, in 1990. Quantum Advisors manages India-dedicated portfolios across equity, private equity, fixed income, real estate, and alternative asset classes. He was previously Deputy Chief Investment Officer for Hansberger Global Investors, where assets under management grew from $2 billion to $5 billion during his tenure. Mr. Dayal also served as lead manager for the $2 billion Vanguard International Value Fund from 2000 to 2004. He earned his Bachelors in Economics from Bombay University and his MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Thomas DiLorenzo

Thomas DiLorenzo is a professor of economics at Loyola College in Maryland, a senior faculty member of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, and an affiliated scholar of the research arm of the League of the South and the Abbeville Institute. He holds a PhD in economics from Virginia Tech. DiLorenzo has authored at least ten books, including How Capitalism Saved America, and his latest Hamilton's Curse: How Jefferson's Archenemy Betrayed the American Revolution -- And What It Means for Americans Today.

Richard Duncan

Richard Duncan is author of The Dollar Crisis: Causes, Consequences, Cures, an international bestseller, and The Corruption of Capitalism: A strategy to rebalance the global economy and restore sustainable growth. He began as an equities analyst in Hong Kong, and has since served as global head of investment strategy for ABN AMRO Asset Management, financial sector specialist for the World Bank, and head of equity research for James Capel Securities and Salomon Brothers. He also consulted the IMF in Thailand during the Asia Crisis, and is now chief economist at Blackhorse Asset Management in Singapore.

Tom Engelhardt

Tom Engelhardt, co-founder of the American Empire Project and the author of The American Way of War: How Bush’s Wars Became Obama’s as well as The End of Victory Culture, runs the Nation Institute’s TomDispatch.com. His latest book, The United States of Fear (Haymarket Books), will be published in November.

Juan Enriquez

Juan Enriquez is a best-selling author, businessman, and leading authority on the economic and political impact of life sciences. He is chairman and CEO of Biotechonomy, a life sciences research and investment firm, and managing director of Excel Medical Ventures, a venture capital fund. Enriquez serves on the boards of Cabot Corp, Harvard's David Rockefeller Center Visiting Committee, Tufts' EPIIC, and Harvard Business School's PAPSAC. He served as CEO of Mexico City's Urban Development Corp, coordinator general of economic policy and chief of staff for Mexico's secretary of state, and as a Peace Commission member in the Chiapas' Zapatista rebellion cease-fire negotiation. His BA and MBA are both with honors from Harvard.

Dr. Marc Faber

Dr. Marc Faber, an Asian-equities sleuth and the orginal bear on Japan, is the editor of The Gloom, Boom and Doom Report. 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 - and immense upside potential. Dr. Faber is the author of the bestseller Tomorrow's Gold .

Dan Ferris

Dan Ferris writes Extreme Value, a monthly investment advisory that focuses primarily on great businesses trading at steep discounts. Dan's strategy of safe and cheap stocks has earned him one of the most impressive track records in the industry.

Douglas French

Douglas French is president of the Mises Institute and author of Early Speculative Bubbles & Increases in the Money Supply. He received his masters degree in economics from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, under Murray Rothbard with Professor Hans-Hermann Hoppe serving on his thesis committee.

Chris Gaffney

Chris Gaffney is vice president of EverBank World Markets and the alternate author of the popular Daily Pfenning newsletter. Mr. Gaffney has been involved in the global marketplace since 1987, and is director of sales for EverBank World Markets. The Daily Pfennig is delivered via e-mail to tens of thousands of market watchers globally, providing commentary that allows them to stay on top of economic, currency, and market happenings. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst and holds degrees in accounting and finance from Washington University in St. Louis.

David Galland

David Galland is Managing Director of Casey Research. Over the course of his career he has worked on the Gold Newsletter, the Aden Analysis, Wealth Magazine and Outstanding Investments. He currently serves as Managing Editor for Doug Casey's International Speculator, Casey Investment Alert, and What We Now Know and was a founding partner and Executive Vice President of EverBank.

Charles Goyette

Charles Goyette is author of New York Times bestseller The Dollar Meltdown: Surviving the Impending Currency Crisis with Gold, Oil, and Other Unconventional Investments. Well known for his years in talk radio, Goyette often shares his views on Fox News, Fox Business, CNN, MSNBC, PBS, CNBC, the Glenn Beck Show, Fox and Friends, Freedom Watch with Judge Napolitano, The O’Reilly Factor, NOW with Bill Moyers; and regularly visits with Lou Dobbs on CNN.  He has repeatedly warned in advance of the “economic calamity the Republicans and Democrats” were creating.

Alexander Green

Alexander Green is the Investment Director of The Oxford Club. A Wall Street veteran, he has over 20 years experience as a research analyst, investment advisor, financial writer and portfolio manager.

He is also Chairman of Investment U, an Internet-based research and education service with over 300,000 readers. He currently writes and directs the twice-weekly Oxford Portfolio Update e-letter and three short-term trading services: The Momentum Alert, The Insider Alert and The New Frontier Trader. Mr. Green is also the author of The New York Times bestseller The Gone Fishin’ Portfolio: Get Wise, Get Wealthy...and Get On with Your Life.

Leon Hadar

Leon T. Hadar is a foreign policy research fellow at the Cato Institute and author of Quagmire: America in the Middle East. He is also former UN bureau chief for the Jerusalem Post and is currently Washington correspondent for the Singapore Business Times. His analyses have appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, and interviews on CNN, Fox News, the BBC and elsewhere. He is a graduate of Hebrew University in Jerusalem, earned MA degrees from Columbia University, and his Ph.D. from American University.

Suzan Haskins

For the last decade, Suzan Haskins has been on the lookout for the best “best-of-all-worlds” places to call home…for International Living readers as well as for her husband, Dan Prescher, and herself.

During that time, they’ve traveled to nearly every country in Latin America and lived in Lake Chapala, San Miguel de Allende and Merida, Mexico; Quito and Cotacachi, Ecuador; Panama City, Panama; and San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua. They’ve owned real estate in all of those countries, too, as well as in Argentina.

Suzan’s no neophyte to serial relocation. Born in Oklahoma, she grew up in Kansas, North Dakota, and New Jersey, before landing in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1976 where she spent 25 years, everyone of them chanting “not another winter here…”

In 2001, she and Dan hit the road and haven’t looked back since.

Brian Hicks

Brian Hicks joined U.S. Global Investors in 2004 as a co-manager of the company’s Global Resources Fund (PSPFX). Mr. Hicks is responsible for portfolio allocation, stock selection and research coverage for the energy and basic materials sectors.

Prior to joining U.S. Global Investors, Mr. Hicks was an associate oil and gas analyst for A.G. Edwards Inc., where he covered domestic exploration and production companies, and was responsible for maintaining earnings and cash flow valuation models.

He also worked previously as an institutional equity/options trader and liaison to the foreign equity desk at Charles Schwab & Co., and at Invesco Funds Group, Inc. as an industry research and product development analyst.

Mr. Hicks holds a Master’s of Science degree in Finance, and a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Colorado

Frank Holmes

Frank Holmes is chief executive officer and chief investment officer of U.S. Global Investors Inc. The company is a registered investment adviser that manages approximately $2.08 billion in 13 no-load mutual funds and for other advisory clients. A Toronto native, he bought a controlling interest in U.S. Global Investors in 1989, after an accomplished career in Canada’s capital markets. His specialized knowledge gives him expertise in resource-based industries and money management. The Global Resources Fund was also Morningstar’s top performer among all domestic stock funds in the five-year period ending Dec. 31, 2006.

Doug Hornig

Doug Hornig has authored multiple books and his work has appeared in Business Week and more. He is a regular contributor to “What We Now Know” – a the weekly e-letter from Casey Research.

Chris Hunter

In addition to his hectic travel schedule and editorial duties over at International Living, Chris also contributes to the Bonner & Partners Family Office project, a research service created by Bill Bonner to help readers build and preserve “multi-generational wealth.”

Eric Janszen

Founder & President of iTulip.com, the online economics and financial markets community that CNBC’s Bill Griffeth calls "...the place to go for a contrary view of the markets," and The New York Times credits for accurate forecasts of economic developments. He formerly served as managing director of Osborn Capital, CEO of AutoCell and Bluesocket, and entrepreneur in residence for Trident Capital. Recognized by NPR, The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, USA Today, BBC, Reuters, and international media. Author of upcoming Portfolio Hardcover book, The Post-Catastrophe Economy, and co-author of America's Bubble Economy, from John Wiley & Sons.

Bill Jenkins

Bill Jenkins knows the Forex currency markets inside and out. After 20 years and a string of losses following other people's crack advice, Bill created his own system for cashing in on tiny currency fluctuations between the British pound and the U.S. dollar. Now you have a chance to benefit from his “lifetime” of hard-earned experience. Bill’s advice has led readers to gains of 33% in a week... 70% in four days... and 100% practically overnight. And we've broadened the service to include the euro, yen and other currencies in these volatile trading markets. When Bill is not helping people enjoy big wins with simple currency plays, he's a church minister and owns his own contracting business.

Charles Kadlec

Mr. Kadlec is a member of the Economic Advisory Board of the American Principles Project, an author and founder of the Community of Liberty.

Vitaliy N. Katsenelson

Vitaliy N. Katsenelson, CFA, is a portfolio manager/director of research at Investment Management Associates in Denver, Colo. He is the author of Active Value Investing: Making Money in Range-Bound Markets.

Marin Katusa

Marin Katusa, who works with Casey Research, is an accomplished investment analyst who specializes in the junior resource sector. He left a successful teaching career to pursue analyzing and investing in junior resource companies. In addition, he is a member of the Vancouver Angel Forum where he and his colleagues evaluate early seed investment opportunities. Marin also manages a portfolio of international real estate projects. Using advanced mathematical skills, he has created a diagnostic resource market tool that analyzes and compares hundreds of investment variables. Through his own investments, Marin has established a network of relationships with many of the key players in the junior resource sector in Vancouver.

Steven Horwitz

Steven Horwitz is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Economics at St. Lawrence University and the author of two books, Microfoundations and Macroeconomics: An Austrian Perspective, now in paperback, and Monetary Evolution, Free Banking, and Economic Order. His work has been published in professional journals such as History of Political Economy, Southern Economic Journal, and The Cambridge Journal of Economics.

James Howard Kunstler

James Howard Kunstler is perhaps best known for his 2005 book The Long Emergency , which predicted the financial meltdown and the implications of the peak oil problem. His 1993 book, The Geography of Nowhere, about the fiasco of suburbia, is a campus cult classic among the architecture and urban planning students. It was followed by a sequel, Home From Nowhere, and a companion book called The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition. Mr. Kunstler is also the author of 10 novels including his latest book, World Made By Hand, a story set in America's post-oil future. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone and The Atlantic Monthly.

Richard Lee

Richard Lee has been involved in the global financial markets for nearly 12 years, amassing experience with different instruments including equities, options and futures while specializing in foreign exchange.  Before joining Agora Financial, Richard had held proprietary trading positions in various funds, with his current position being in an international Global Macro Fund.  Additionally, Rich was a senior FX strategist for one of the largest retail brokers, helping to develop the firm's research web portal.

Nathan Lewis

Nathan Lewis was formerly the chief international economist of a leading economic forecasting firm. He now works for an asset management company based in New York. Lewis has written for the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal Asia, the Japan Times, Pravda, and authored Gold: The Once and Future Money.

Michael K. MacLeod

Michael K. MacLeod is completing his degree at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD. majoring in Economics with minors in Music and Philosophy. Adhering to the Austrian School of economics, he is a firm believer in evolutionary economics and is particularly fond of Joseph Schumpeter and his book Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy.  Michael hopes to bring his idea of “creative destruction” to The Daily Reckoning on a daily basis, where he currently works as the Research Assistant.

Rob Marstrand

Rob Marstrand worked for UBS for 15 years, mainly in corporate strategy, before escaping the banking world and moving to South America. His ex-employer was the largest global wealth manager and world's biggest stock trader. The strategy job involved all areas of the business in all parts of the world. Reviewing current businesses, developing entry strategies for new businesses and countries, and working on acquisitions and joint ventures. This work involved detailed review and valuation of competitors and takeover targets. Rob lived in Hong Kong, China from 2002 to 2005, where he was particularly involved in negotiating joint ventures and acquisitions in China. He has also worked on projects, acquisitions and joint ventures in Japan, India, Saudi Arabia, the US, Switzerland, Indonesia and South Korea, amongst others. He is British, married to an Argentine wife, and emigrated to Buenos Aires, Argentina with his wife and two children in 2008.

Ian Mathias

Ian Mathias is the managing editor of Agora Financial’s Income Franchise, where he writes and researches about retirement, dividend and fixed income investing. Much of his work is featured in The Daily Reckoning and Lifetime Income Report – Agora Financial’s flagship income investing advisory.  

Previously, Ian managed The 5 Min. Forecast, a fun, fast-paced daily look into the future of global markets and macroeconomics. He’s also worked in public relations, where media outlets like Forbes, AP, Yahoo! and MSN Money have syndicated his writing. If he’s not at work, you’ll probably find Ian on a bicycle, racing up and down the “mountains” of Baltimore County. Ian has a BA from Loyola University in Maryland. 

John Mauldin

John Mauldin is the creative force behind the Millennium Wave investment theory. John 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. He has authored Just One Thing, Eavesdropping on Millionaires: Secrets of the World's Wealthiest Investors, and Bull's Eye Investing: Targeting Real Returns in a Smoke and Mirrors Market.

Ronan McMahon

A finance graduate, Ronan McMahon worked in the e-business consultancy and dot-com industries before joining International Living as Real Estate Marketing Director in January 2004. Ronan has been an active real estate investor since his early twenties and joining International Living gave him the opportunity to marry his personal and professional interests. Last year Ronan took up the position of Executive Director with Pathfinder. Pathfinder is International Living’s preferred Real Estate advertising partner. Pathfinder scours the globe to find the most unique and value-oriented real estate opportunities.

Ronan also writes International Living’s Real Estate Trend Alert and regularly contributes to International Living’s print and online publications. International Real Estate investment is his beat. Ronan has travelled to 15 countries in the past 12 months alone following trends that could offer profit opportunities. Instinct, experience and an unrivalled black book of contacts give him direct access to the inside track to profit opportunities.

The Mogambo Guru

Richard Daughty (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. For podcasts featuring the Mogambo, click here.

Robert Murphy

Robert P. Murphy has a PhD in economics from NYU and is author of the forthcoming The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal (Regnery 2009). He runs the blog Free Advice.

Mark Nestmann

Mark Nestmann is a leading writer and speaker on offshore topics and financial and personal privacy issues. Ron Paul 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.

Gary North

Gary North, at the age of 25, was the youngest elected member of the Economists' National Committee on Monetary Policy. Gary has served as a senior staff member of the Foundation for Economic Education and as a research assistant to U.S. Congressman Ron Paul. Gary North is also the author of Mises on Money and the editor of the Reality Check free e-letter.

Ron Paul

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 has delivered several stunning addresses before Congress, including: "Sorry, Mr. Franklin, We Are All Democrats Now" and "We've Been Neo-Conned." Ron Paul is also the author of The Revolution: A Manifesto , A Foreign Policy of Freedom: Peace, Commerce, and Honest Friendship , and Pillars of Prosperity .

John Pugsley

John Pugsley is the author of numerous books and reports on economics, investment and politics, and former editor of John Pugsley's Journal. Mr. Pugsley authored Common Sense Economics , and in 1980 The Alpha Strategy correctly warned that the United States would experience "the largest deficits in the history of the nation in the next five years" and showed investors how to protect themselves.

Kurt Richebächer

Dr. Kurt Richebächer followed world currency and credit markets for nearly 60 years. A trusted voice of sanity in the midst of financial chaos, many analysts and commentators depended on his keen insights and research; and so he founded The Richebächer Letter. Beginning in 1998, he made a series of economic predictions that came true with startling accuracy. He predicted the collapse of Brazil's currency, the real, in the late 1990s. He warned that the stock market was overheating in January 2000 - just before the major indexes fell sharply from their highs. And he foresaw the U.S. dollar's sharp fall against the euro. On Aug. 24, 2007, he passed away at the age of 88.

Barry Ritholtz

Barry Ritholtz is author of Bailout Nation (Wiley), publisher and editor of The Big Picture , and CEO and director of equity research at FusionIQ , a quantitative research firm that provides web-based software services to individual investors and traders. Ritholtz makes frequent TV & Radio appearances, including Bloomberg, CNBC, CNN, Fox and PBS. He is regularly quoted in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Forbes, TheStreet.com, and other media. At the moment, he has his eye on a 28-foot Doral Venezio and a 1968 230 SL.

Bruce Robertson

Bruce Robertson, on assignment for The Daily Reckoning in Vancouver, has been the Agora Financial Investment Symposium director for 6 years. Prior to joining the team, Bruce enjoyed an eclectic career ranging from self employment to Fortune 500 pharmaceutical and Pharmaceutical Robotics. With an MBA from the University of Colorado and a hard won skepticism towards the corporate world, Bruce heads up the business development activities of Agora Financial. If you're interested in joining us at the Agora Financial Investment Symposium, July 20-23, 2010 you'll find details and early-bird discounts here.

Lew Rockwell

Lew Rockwell, former congressional chief of staff to Ron Paul and founder and president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, is an opponent of the state, its wars and its socialism. He is the editor of The Irrepressible Rothbard , Speaking of Liberty , Man, Economy, and Liberty: Essays in Honor of Murray N. Rothbardand and LewRockwell.com.

Puru Saxena

Puru Saxena is the founder of Puru Saxena Wealth Management, his Hong Kong based firm which manages investment portfolios for individuals and corporate clients. He is a highly showcased investment manager and a regular guest on CNN, BBC World, CNBC, Bloomberg, NDTV and various radio programs. 

He also publishes a widely read economic report, Money Matters, which is available from www.purusaxena.com

Frederick Sheehan

Frederick Sheehan is author of Panderer to Power: The Untold Story of How Alan Greenspan Enriched Wall Street and Left a Legacy of Recession and co-author of Greenspan's Bubbles: The Age of Ignorance at the Federal Reserve. Sheehan was a director at John Hancock Financial Services where he wrote the Market Outlook and Market Review. He contributes to the Gloom, Boom & Doom Report, Whiskey & Gunpowder, and the Prudent Bear, among others. He also advises an investment firm and a non-profit foundation. Sheehan is a CFA and graduate of Columbia Business School.

Ben Simpfendorfer

Ben Simpfendorfer is Chief China Economist for a major global bank. He was previously Senior China Economist for JPMorgan Chase. He began his career in the Middle East and has lived in Amman, Beirut, and Damascus. He regularly appears on CNBC and Bloomberg, and is quoted by publications such as the Financial Times and The New York Times. He has lived in Hong Kong for nearly a decade, and speaks Mandarin Chinese and Syrian Arabic. His book, The New Silk Road, offers a unique perspective on a rising Arab world and its strengthening relations with China.

Mark Skousen

Dr. Mark Skousen is a economist, financial advisor, university professor, and author of over 20 books.  He has taught economics and finance at Columbia Business School, Barnard College at Columbia University, and Rollins College. In 2005, Grantham University honored Dr. Skousen by renaming its School of Business "The Mark Skousen School of Business." He has been a columnist for Forbes magazine and has written articles for The Wall Street Journal, Liberty, Reason, and The Journal of Economic Perspectives. Dr. Skousen has appeared on ABC News, CNBC Power Lunch, CNN, Fox News, and C-SPAN Book TV.

Evan Smith

Evan Smith joined U.S. Global Investors in 2004 as co-portfolio manager of the Global Resources Fund (PSPFX). Previously, he was a trader with Koch Capital Markets in Houston where he executed quantitative long-short equities strategies.

Mr. Smith was also an equities research analyst with Sanders Morris Harris in Houston where he followed energy companies in the oil and gas, coal mining, and pipeline sectors. In addition, Mr. Smith was with the Valuation Services Group of Arthur Andersen LLP. Mr. Smith holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas in Austin.

Eric Sprott

Eric Sprott has accumulated 35 years of experience in the investment industry. After earning his designation as a chartered accountant, Eric entered the investment industry as a research analyst at Merrill Lynch. In 1981, he founded Sprott Securities (now called Cormark Securities Inc.), which today is one of Canada's largest independently owned securities firms. After establishing Sprott Asset Management Inc. in December 2001 as a separate entity, Eric divested his entire ownership of Sprott Securities to its employees.

Eric's investment abilities are well represented in his track record in managing the Sprott Hedge Fund L.P., Sprott Hedge Fund L.P. II, Sprott Bull/Bear RSP Fund, Sprott Offshore Funds, Sprott Canadian Equity Fund, Sprott Energy Fund and Sprott Managed Accounts. In December 2004, the Sprott Hedge Fund L.P. was awarded the Opportunistic Strategy Hedge Fund Award at the Canadian Investment Awards. In addition, the Sprott Offshore Fund Ltd. won the 2006 MarHedge Annual Performance Award under the Canada-Based Manager category. Furthermore, in October 2006, Eric was the recipient of the 2006 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award (Financial Services) and the 2006 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for Ontario. In December 2007, Eric was named Fund Manager of the Year by Investment Executive, a widely circulated publication for Canadian financial advisors. In October 2008, the Sprott Offshore Fund Ltd. won the award for the Best Long/Short Hedge Fund globally by HFM Week, a leading publication for the global hedge fund industry.

Eric's predictions on the state of the North American financial markets have been captured throughout the last several years in an investment strategy article that he authors titled "Markets At A Glance".

Porter Stansberry

Porter Stansberry founded Stansberry & Associates Investment Research LLC, a private publishing company based in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1999. His monthly newsletter, Porter Stansberry's Investment Advisory, deals with safe value investments poised to give subscribers years of exceptional returns. And his weekly trading service, Porter Stansberry's Put Strategy Report, shows readers the smartest way to book big gains during the ongoing financial crisis.

Margaret Summerfield

Margaret was born in Ireland but has spent her most of her adult life living outside her home country. Real estate has always been her passion. 

In late 2005 Margaret joined International Living, as an administrator.  She spent her first fifteen months with the company analyzing the paperwork and due diligence of countless real estate projects.  For the last four years Margaret has traveled extensively in Central and South America, scouting for real estate opportunities. She’s been to places you’ve never heard of...spent hours in meetings with local contacts…and seen more projects in the region than just about anyone you’re likely to meet.

Margaret calls Casco Viejo, Panama, home--when she is not scouting.

Ben Traynor

Editor of Gold News, the analysis and investment research site from world-leading gold ownership service BullionVault, Ben Traynor was formerly editor of The Fleet Street Letter, the UK’s longest-running investment letter. A Cambridge economics graduate, he is a professional writer and editor with a specialist interest in monetary economics.

James Turk

James Turk is founder and chairman of GoldMoney, which provides a convenient and economical way to buy and sell gold, silver and platinum online using the digital gold currency for which he was awarded four US patents.  He has specialized in international banking, finance and investments since graduating in 1969 from George Washington University with a B.A. degree in International Economics.  He began his business career with The Chase Manhattan Bank (now J.P. Morgan Chase), which included assignments in Thailand, the Philippines and Hong Kong.  In 1980 he joined the private investment and trading company of a prominent precious metals trader.  He moved to the United Arab Emirates in December 1983 to be appointed Manager of the Commodity Department of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, a position he held until resigning in 1987 to begin FGMR.

James Turk has written several monographs on money and banking and is the co-author of The Coming Collapse of the Dollar (Doubleday, 2004), now available in a paperback version entitled The Collapse of the Dollar.

Lord William Rees-Mogg

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. His superbly perceptive, startlingly well-informed, yet often controversial insights can be found in the U.K. edition of Capital & Crisis.

Eric Roseman

Eric Naimer Roseman has more than 18 years of investment experience focusing on global stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies, mutual funds and alternative investments. He’s also been active with The Sovereign Society (TSS) since 1998 as a contributing editor, and since 2006 as Investment Director.

In 2003, Eric and The Sovereign Society launched Commodity Trend Alert (CTA) just ahead of the biggest bull market in raw materials since the 1970s. He is registered as an investment advisor with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Alexander Tabarrok

Alexander Tabarrok is Research Director for The Independent Institute, Assistant Editor of The Independent Review, Bartley J. Madden Chair in Economics at the Mercatus Center, and Associate Professor of Economics at George Mason University. He received his Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University, and he has taught at the University of Virginia and Ball State University. Dr. Tabarrok is the editor of The Independent Institute books, Entrepreneurial Economics: Bright Ideas from the Dismal Science (Oxford University Press), The Voluntary City: Choice, Community, and Civil Society (with David Beito and Peter Gordon, University of Michigan Press)

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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.Specializing in the risks of unpredicted rare events he held senior trading positions in New York and London, founding a trading firm and risk research laboratory. Taleb is also the author of Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable and his ideas on skeptical empiricism have been covered in hundreds of articles around the world.

Paul van Eeden

Paul van Eeden is president of private holding and investment company Cranberry Capital Inc., and is well known for his work on the relationship between the price of gold and currency markets. Originally from South Africa, and having been intimately involved in the financing and evaluation of resource companies, he has an insider's understanding of mineral exploration. Van Eeden is a frequent speaker at investment conferences and a regular guest on radio and television.

Egon von Greyerz

Egon von Greyerz (EvG) is the Founder and Managing Partner of Matterhorn Asset Management AG. EvG started his working life in Geneva as a banker and thereafter spent 17 years as Finance Director and Vice-Chairman of Dixons Group (DSG International Plc) in London, the UK’s largest electronic and electrical retailer. Since the 1990s Egon von Greyerz has been actively involved with financial investment activities including Mergers and Acquisitions and Asset allocation consultancy for private family funds. This has led to the creation of Matterhorn Asset Management, an asset management company based on wealth preservation principles. The GoldSwitzerland Division was created to facilitate the buying and storage of physical gold for both private investors, companies, trusts and pension funds.

Vedran Vuk

Vedran Vuk graduated with a BBA in Economics from Loyola University of New Orleans. Currently, he is pursuing a M.S. in Finance at Johns Hopkins University. He also spent time on a PhD. economics program.

His publications include academic journal articles, book chapter contributions, newspaper columns, and online articles. Prior to Casey Research, he worked in think tanks, government affairs, and corporate governance. Utilizing his experiences with academics, Washington politics, and financial knowledge, Vedran’s analysis often seeks to find the mid-point between these different areas.

David Walker

David Walker served as United States Comptroller General from 1998 through to 2008 and is now the President and CEO of The Peter G. Peterson Foundation. He is also the author of Comeback America: Turning the Country Around and Restoring Fiscal Responsibility.

Sydney Williams

Sydney Williams graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 1965, and for the last forty-five years he’s worked on Wall Street as an institutional salesman. He has been writing about the financial industry for over a decade, and in the last four years began compiling his thoughts in his daily blog “Thought of the Day: Financial markets, political events and life’s experiences.”

Thomas E. Woods

Thomas E. Woods, Jr., is the New York Times bestselling author of nine books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History and Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse. “There is no better book to read on the present crisis than this one,” says Congressman Ron Paul. A senior fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, Woods holds a bachelor's degree in history from Harvard and his master's, M.Phil., and Ph.D. from Columbia University.