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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.

  1. Addison Wiggin's Apogee Advisory

    “Extraction” by Stealth: The Risk to Your Retirement Account • May 15, 2012

    401(k) confiscation — will it happen? When? We’ll show what you can do to prepare. How peer-to-peer lending could make investing safer and more profitable for you. …Read more…

  2. Agora Financial

    Little Book of the Shrinking Dollar: What You Can do to Protect Your Money Now • May 10, 2012

    Every paper currency in the history of civilization has eventually lost its entire value. It’s a simple matter of supply and demand. Today’s U.S. dollar supply is way out of whack. And its value is going down—fast! Back in 1970, if you just stashed a dollar coin under the mattress, …Read more…

  3. Daily Reckoning

    “America Has Become a Piñata…” • May 7, 2012

    “America’s national government has moved way beyond a political spoils system,” wrote Charles Goyette in his book The Dollar Meltdown. “A spoils system leaves the host alive so that a politician’s occasional ne’er-do-well brother-in-law can be put on the payroll.” In contrast, Goyette suggested, “America has become a piñata: Everybody gets a crack at it. …Read more…

  4. Daily Reckoning

    Serial Bubble Blowers • May 5, 2012

    The shrinking dollar is a modern problem. The U.S. dollar has been shrinking since the inception of the Federal Reserve — the very crew assigned the task of maintaining its value. Of late, the decline is accelerating at an alarming rate. For many Americans, the suggestion that the dollar is losing value is unthinkable — …Read more…

  5. Addison Wiggin's Apogee Advisory

    Empire of Poverty: “We Came, We Saw… We Borrowed!” • April 17, 2012

    We predict the next crisis to cripple the banking sector and ruin our U.S. balance sheet: SLABS. The players (and lobbyists) reveal the “music has stopped.” Time to get these 12 stocks out of your portfolio or else. …Read more…

  6. 5 Min. Forecast

    Feeling the 2007 Twitch • April 12, 2012

    Look out below: Three – no, make it four – reasons it feels like 2007-08 this morning… Subprime lending up (again…really?), private equity opting for IPO, and a shocking fact you didn’t know about oil prices……Read more…

  7. Daily Reckoning

    Shades of the ’08 Financial Crisis? • April 12, 2012

    “Even I wouldn’t make a loan to me at this point,” says Annette Alejandro. Ms. Alejandro recently emerged from bankruptcy, her car was repossessed last year and she has no job. But her mailbox is stuffed with offers for credit cards and car loans. We begin today’s episode with “deja vu”-induced vertigo this morning. Three …Read more…