Agora Financial Columnists

	Bill Bonner full bio Bill Bonner is the founder and president of Agora Publishing, one of the world's most successful consumer newsletter publishing companies, and the author of the free daily e-mail The Daily Reckoning. He's also a frequent contributor to Strategic Investment.
	Addison Wiggin full bio Addison Wiggin is the editorial director and publisher of The Daily Reckoning. Mr. Wiggin is also the author, with Bill Bonner, of the international best sellers Financial Reckoning Day and Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis.
	Eric Fry full bio Eric J. Fry, The Rude Awakening's 'man-on-the-scene' in New York, has been a specialist in international equities since the early 1980s. He was a professional portfolio manager for more than 10 years and authored the first comprehensive guide to American Depositary Receipts, International Investing with ADRs.
	Chris Mayer full bio Christopher Mayer is the editor of Capital and Crisis (formerly the Fleet Street Letter), and his contrarian essays have appeared on a number of Web sites and publications, including, The Mises Institute, the Freeman, The Daily Reckoning, GoldEagle.com, LewRockwell.com, FiendBear.com, PrudentBear.com, Grant's Investor and Individual Investor Magazine. His views on financial matters have also been widely quoted, including in the highly regarded Grant's Interest Rate Observer.
	Kate Incontrera full bio Kate Incontrera is the managing editor of The Daily Reckoning. She is also the author of The Daily Reckoning's Weekend Edition, a weekly wrap-up of contrarian investment analysis.
	Byron King full bio Byron King currently serves as an attorney in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He received his Juris Doctor from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 1981 and is a cum laude graduate of Harvard University.
	Jim Amrhein full bio Jim Amrhein is a contributing editor for Whiskey & Gunpowder. and is a cocksure, venomous disbeliever in the ability of governments to do much of anything right-especially compared to the vast, yet grotesquely shackled power of the American entrepreneur. Degreed in Political Science, Jim is a widely published columnist on political issues, both under his own byline and as a ghostwriter for one of America’s most outspoken critics of the corrupt farce our elected officials have made of the pure, evolving, and self-correcting system they’ve been entrusted to maintain
	Michael Shedlock Full Bio Michael Shedlock (Mish) is a contributing editor for Whiskey & Gunpowder and co-editor of The Survival Report. Mish worked in the financial services industry for 20 years at some of the top institutions in the country including Harris Bank, the Bank of Montreal, Bank One, First National Bank of Chicago, and First Data Corp. Mish is currently doing economic and investment research for a number of clients. In addition, Mish runs one of the more popular stock boards on the Motley Fool, Investment Analysis Clubs / Mishedlo and one of the more popular boards on Silicon Investor as well, Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis.
	Dan Amoss Full Bio Dan Amoss, CFA is managing editor for Strategic Investment and a contributing editor for Whiskey & Gunpowder. Dan joined Agora Financial from Investment Counselors of Maryland, investment advisor for one of the top small-cap value mutual funds over the past 15 years. Dan brings to Strategic Investment the unique experience of an institutional background and a drive to seek out the most attractive investments within favored "big picture" trends. He develops investment ideas for SI readers with a global network of geopolitical and macroeconomic analysts. Dan holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation, a professional designation widely recognized within the investment community. Dan holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation, a professional designation widely recognized within the investment community. Details about the CFA Program can be found here.
	The Mogambo Guru Full Bio The Mogambo Guru is general partner and COO for Smith Consultant Group, serving the financial and medical communities, and the writer/publisher of the Mogambo Guru economic newsletter, an avocational exercise to better heap disrespect on those who desperately deserve it. The Mogambo Guru is quoted frequently in Barron's, The Daily Reckoning, and other fine publications.
	Chuck Butler Full Bio Chuck Butler is the Senior Vice President of EverBank World Markets. He oversees the trading desk and operations for over 12,000 individual and corporate clients, both in the United States and abroad, who look to EverBank for FDIC-insured World Currency Deposit Accounts, and Single Currency and Index CDs . Chuck is the author of The Daily Pfennig, which is reposted here at The Daily Reckoning. His respected analysis is frequently quoted in or referenced by: the Wall Street Journal, U.S. News and World Report, CBS Market Watch, USA Today, CNNfn, the Chicago Tribune and many other publications.
	Steve Sarnoff Full Bio Steve Sarnoff has been picking winning options plays for Options Hotline subscribers since 1995. He is a seasoned professional with years of experience in the markets researching trends. His concise recommendations each week prove his experience and demonstrate his exceptional capabilities to predict great option plays.
	Christopher Hancock Full Bio Christopher has spent the last two years doing investment research primarily focused on emerging markets, specifically China and Hong Kong. After witnessing firsthand, from the doorstep to mainland China, the greatest industrial revolution and economic growth story since America's railroads catapulted it to greatness, he decided to postpone a career in the public sector. After working with Citigroup in Hong Kong on the challenges and opportunities associated with the forthcoming RBM flotation reform, Christopher left many of his friends behind and decided to return to the States to pursue a career in equity research. Christopher’s desire to work for an independent firm led him to Agora Financial. He travels extensively and utilizes his contacts across the globe to recommend the best international investments in the world right now. Chriistopher is the editor of Freemarket Investor.
	"Extreme" Ian Mathias full bio Ian Mathias is the managing editor of the 5 Min. Forecast and Agora Financial’s public relations/media coordinator. In the short time Ian has been working for Agora Financial, his writings have been syndicated in several respected media outlets, including Forbes.com, the Associated Press, Yahoo! and MSN Money.
	Dr. Kurt Richebächer Full Bio Dr. Kurt Richebächer is the most important financial mind of our time. He has followed world currency and credit markets for nearly 60 years and is a trusted voice of sanity in the midst of financial chaos.
	Greg Guenthner Full Bio Former beat reporter Greg Guenthner uses his newsroom experience to dig up the hard-to-find headlines that could lead to big gains for your penny stock portfolio. After leaving the newspaper industry, Greg decided to dedicate his career to researching the most promising small public companies in the world. In addition to his work with Penny Stock Fortunes, Greg is also the managing editor for The Penny Sleuth. The free daily e-letter dedicated offers insight into strategies, news, technology and trends of the small-cap market. In his Sleuth columns, Greg has written extensively on everything from alternative energy to biotechnology.
	Greg Grillot Full Bio Greg Grillot is an erstwhile 26-year-old philosophy student whose only similarity to Socrates is an utter lack of knowledge. Under the inimitable guidance of Dan Denning, Byron King, Mish, Chris Mayer, and Addison Wiggin, he hopes to learn enough about the markets and macroeconomics to actually say something meaningful someday. He enjoys jiu-jitsu, Russian literature and pitbulls. He rues the day he left his tree-trimming job for publishing as he has no time to think anymore. Greg is a contributing editor for Whiskey & Gunpowder.
	Brian McAuley Brian McAuley is co-editor of The Survival Report and a Registered Investment Advisor with Sitka Pacific Capital Management, an asset management firm based in Washington State. Brian specializes in portfolio modeling, risk management, and technical analysis of stocks, bonds, commodities, and currencies. When Brian isn't monitoring market trends and helping people navigate their way through them, he's spending time with his family and hiking in the Cascade and Olympic Mountains.