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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

    The New Industrial Revolution • May 17, 2013

    It’s not only the “next big thing.” We daresay it’s the only thing that can overcome the crushing burden of debt that still looms like a snow ledge over the next generation of Americans. “Any genuine recovery in America,” we wrote in 2011, “will be led by entrepreneurs who generate new ideas and create new jobs.”…Read more…

  2. Daily Reckoning

    Reading The Dow v. Gold Ratio, Part II • April 2, 2013

    We drew upon analyst Russell Napier’s 2006 book Anatomy of the Bear in preparing our 2011 report on whether the bear market was nearing an end. Not exactly beach reading… but he does a masterly job pinpointing the factors at play at those moments when secular bear markets end… and secular bulls begin. The bear …Read more…

  3. Daily Reckoning

    Reading The Dow v. Gold Ratio, Part I • April 1, 2013

    “I hate seeing myself misquoted, misinterpreted or just misunderstood,” says our friend Fusion IQ chief and Big Picture blogger Barry Ritholtz. We can relate, given the reaction we get when we start talking about Treasuries, why we hate them and why we own them anyway. In February, Barry suggested that the long ugly bear market …Read more…

  4. 5 Min. Forecast PRO

    The Counterfeit Camo Caper • March 25, 2013

    March 25, 2013 How 25 tons of fake camo fabric spotlights a tiny company’s impregnable “moat” Waiting for a “bull market signal”: Elmerraji cuts through the day-to-day noise (Cyprus, anyone?) Three factors Byron King says are setting up the “perfect storm” for platinum (and palladium) The $10 billion port: Latest volley fired in “the new …Read more…

  5. 5 Min. Forecast

    The Counterfeit Camo Caper • March 25, 2013

    March 25, 2013 How 25 tons of fake camo fabric spotlights a tiny company’s impregnable “moat” Waiting for a “bull market signal”: Elmerraji cuts through the day-to-day noise (Cyprus, anyone?) Three factors Byron King says are setting up the “perfect storm” for platinum (and palladium) The $10 billion port: Latest volley fired in “the new …Read more…

  6. Addison Wiggin's Apogee Advisory

    The Dow’s Record… And One Number You Can’t Afford to Ignore • March 19, 2013

    One critical recalibration of our favorite Dow yardstick as the Dow is just points from an all-time closing high. Plus we explore our alternatives to Obamacare and talk taxes just in time for April 15. Revisit your money’s escape routes: one newly closed off replaced by one just opening. …Read more…

  7. 5 Min. Forecast

    The Ides of March • March 15, 2013

    March 15, 2013 The $6 trillion tab for a 21st-century war with roots in the 20th… and a lineage all the way to ancient Rome Vanquished by “Bankistan”: Barry Ritholtz on what the Fed’s member banks hath wrought Even the statisticians can’t cover up rising prices now: Dan Amoss on why gasoline prices are outpacing …Read more…