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 .

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Addison Wiggin

Addison Wiggin is the editorial director of The Daily Reckoning, and executive publisher of Agora Financial, an independent financial research firm based in Baltimore, Maryland. His second editions of international best-sellers Financial Reckoning Day Fallout and The New Empire of Debt, which he co-authored with Bill Bonner, were updated in 2009. His third book, The Demise of the Dollar… and Why it’s Even Better for Your Investments was updated in 2008, the same year he wrote I.O.U.S.A. Read more about Wiggin’s best-selling books here. 



Wiggin is the executive producer and co-writer of I.O.U.S.A. an acclaimed documentary nominated for the Grand Jury prize at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and the 2009 Critics Choice Award and shortlisted for a 2009 Academy Award. 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. 

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Eric Fry

Eric J. Fry,  the Publisher of The Daily Reckoning, has been a specialist in international equities since the early 1980s. He was a professional portfolio manager for more than 10 years, specializing in international investment strategies and short-selling. Mr. Fry launched the sometimes abrasive, mostly entertaining and always insightful Rude Awakening. 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, San Francisco Chronicle and Money.  He appears regularly on business news stations like CNBC and Fox. Special Report- “Why Oil will Hit $200 a Barrel! What to Do to Protect Yourself Financially“

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.

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Dan Amoss

Dan Amoss, CFA, is managing editor for Strategic Short Report and a contributing editor to Whiskey and Gunpowder. Dan joined Agora Financial from Investment Counselors of Maryland, investment adviser for one of the top small-cap value mutual funds over the past 15 years. As a buy-side analyst, Dan refined his value investing approach by meeting with corporate executives and sell-side analysts and writing proprietary research for the fund’s management team.

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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.

Patrick Cox

Patrick Cox has lived deep inside the world of transformative technologies for over 25 years. In the 1980s, he worked in computer software development and manufacturing. By the mid-1990s, he worked as a consultant for Netscape — the company that handled 90% of all Internet browsing traffic at the time. InfoWorld and USA Today have featured Patrick’s research many times. He’s also appeared on Crossfire and Nightline. This expertise bought him to Agora Financial, where he now heads Breakthrough Technology Alert, the only place you’ll find the truly transformational technologies that offer exponential gains.

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 .

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Rocky Vega

Rocky Vega is a regular contributor to The Daily Reckoning. Previously, he was founding publisher of UrbanTurf and RFID Update, which he operated from Brazil, Chile, and Puerto Rico, and associate publisher of FierceFinance. He specialized in direct marketing at MBI, facilitated MIT Sloan School of Management programs, and has been featured on CBS. Vega graduated with honors from Harvard University, where he was on the board of Let’s Go Publications and directed business programs involving McKinsey, Goldman Sachs, and Harvard Business School faculty. He is also enrolled at the Stockholm School of Economics.

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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.

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Dave Gonigam

Treading a fine line between contrarian thinking and conspiracy theory, Dave Gonigam explores the nexus of finance, politics, and the media for the Daily Reckoning’s Desidooru Saloon. 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.

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Greg Guenthner

Greg Guenthner uses his experience as a former journalist to dig up the hard-to-find headlines that could lead to big gains for your micro-cap portfolio. Greg offers his readers the scoop on topics ranging from alternative energies to biotechnology, digging up the best penny stock opportunities before they’re discovered by the mainstream media. On top of contributing to Penny Sleuth, Greg also heads Penny Stock Fortunes and Bulletin Board Elite.

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Bill Jenkins

Bill Jenkins, founder and managing editor of Master FX Options Trader, 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. As Agora Financial’s resident currency specialist, 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.

Byron King

Prior to joining Whiskey and Gunpowder, Byron received his Juris Doctor from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, was a cum laude graduate of Harvard University, served on the staff of the Chief of Naval Operations and as a field historian with the Navy. Our resident energy and oil expert, Byron is the editor of Outstanding Investments and Energy and Scarcity Investor .

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Alan Knuckman

Commodity expert Alan Knuckman hails from the home of commodity trading in Chicago, where he began working as a clerk on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT).  Alan’s worked with all aspects of the commodity markets for the past 18 years – and now he brings his inside knowledge on energies, grains and gold to you.  Alan is currently the editor of Resource Trader Alert, a trading service devoted to raking in profits from hard commodities.

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Ian Mathias

Ian Mathias is managing editor of The 5 Min. Forecast and AgoraFinancial.com. We discovered Ian working as a full time rock climbing guide and writing on the side. As it turns out, markets and global economics can be extreme too… at least enough to keep him around. Since working for Agora Financial, respected media outlets including Forbes.com, the Associated Press, Yahoo, and MSN Money have syndicated his writing. He received his BA from Loyola College in Maryland and is currently studying writing at the graduate level.

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Chris Mayer

Chris Mayer studied finance at the University of Maryland, graduating magna cum laude. He went on to earn his MBA while embarking on a decade-long career in corporate banking. Chris is the editor of Capital and Crisis and Mayer’s Special Situations , a monthly report that unearths unique and unconventional opportunities in smaller-cap stocks. In 2008, Chris authored Invest Like a Dealmaker: Secrets From a Former Banking Insider .

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Jim Nelson

Jim Nelson is the managing editor of Penny Sleuth. He has been playing the stock market since he was 14, always with a preference toward smaller companies. He has honed his stock picking skills at Agora Financial since 2004, effectively combining a growth and value approach. Like Greg Guenthner, Jim also contributes to Penny Stock Fortunes on top of bringing you the Penny Sleuth every weekday.

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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.

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Steve Sarnoff

Steve Sarnoff has been picking winning options plays for his Options Hotline readers since 1995. He is a seasoned professional with years of experience in the markets researching trends. His concise recommendations prove his experience and demonstrate his exceptional capabilities to predict great option plays.

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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 . Special Report: From Hulbert’s No 1-Ranked Advisory Letter Over 5 Years, GOLD $2000 REPORT: Five entirely new ways to play the gold trend and a hidden way to snap up gold- for less than one penny per ounce!

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.

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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.

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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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.

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Jeff Clark

Jeff Clark is editor and one of the primary writers of Casey Research’s BIG GOLD . 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 BIG GOLD a top-notch 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.

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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 .

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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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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 $4.8 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.

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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.

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.

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.

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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.

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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. From Hulbert’s No 1-Ranked Advisory Letter Over 5 Years, GOLD $2000 REPORT: Five entirely new ways to play the gold trend and a hidden way to snap up gold- for less than one penny per ounce!

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 .

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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.

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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. Special Report : Introducing the Single Best Way to Make Sure You’ll Never Run Out of Money… The Endless “Paycheck Portfolio”

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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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