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  • Author Image for Dan Amoss

    Dan Amoss

    Dan Amoss 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. He learned how to spot holes in a company’s balance sheet – and now he uses that knowledge to make outsize returns for readers of Strategic Short Report. Dan spends long hours poring over quarterly reports and meeting with executive to make sure you get the absolute best information on the companies he recommends.

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    Joel Bowman

    Joel Bowman is managing editor of the Daily Reckoning and former managing editor of the  Rude Awakening. 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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    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. He’s appeared on Crossfire and Nightline, and his writing has been featured in USA Today. Now Patrick brings you Breakthrough Technology Alert, the only place you’ll find the truly transformational technologies that offer exponential gains.

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  • Author Image for Jonas Elmerraji

    Jonas Elmerraji

    Jonas Elmerraji is an editor of Penny Stock Fortunes and a frequent contributor the Penny Sleuth. Jonas also occasionally writes for financial publications like Forbes, TheStreet.com, and Investopedia. He has been quoted as an investment expert in Investor’s Business Daily, Consumers Digest, and Bankrate.com among others. Before joining Agora Financial, Jonas’s held positions at an investment firm and at a “Big 4″ public accounting firm. He holds a degree in Financial Economics.

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    Eric Fry

    Eric J. Fry, 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. Eric is a frequent contributor to the Daily Reckoning and the voice of 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 including CNBC and Fox.

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    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.

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  • Author Image for Greg Guenthner

    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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  • Author Image for Bill Jenkins

    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.

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  • Author Image for Kate Incontrera

    Kate Incontrera

    Kate “Short Fuse” Incontrera is the Managing Editor of 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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    Byron King

    A Harvard-trained geologist and former aide to the United States Chief of Naval Operations, Byron King is our resident oil and energy expert. Byron has been a frequent guest on CNN and Fox News, and we are proud to have him on board as the editor of Outstanding Investments and Energy & Scarcity Investor. This “old rock hound” uses his expertise and connections in global resource industries to bring you the very best opportunities in energy, mining and precious metals.

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  • Author Image for Alan Knuckman

    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 has 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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  • Author Image for Ian Mathias

    Ian Mathias

    Ian Mathias is managing editor of The 5 Min. Forecast. 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 learned the art of valuing companies the hard way – through decades of work as a corporate banker. Since he came on as editor of Capital & Crisis and Mayer’s Special Situations, his one of a kind research is now available to the general public. Chris travels the world looking for the absolute best deals, and shows you how get in (and out) of the market’s most profitable trades. In 2008, Chris authored Invest Like a Dealmaker: Secrets From a Former Banking Insider.

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  • Author Image for Jim Nelson

    Jim Nelson

    Jim Nelson has been editor at Penny Stock Fortunes, since 2004 – picking some of America’s hottest penny stock opportunities with the proprietary “CXS Money Multiplier System”. He was recognized for his outstanding technical analysis with the prestigious Richebacher Award in 2009. Now, Jim shows you the secret of lasting, secure income as editor of the much-anticipated Lifetime Income Report.

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  • Author Image for Rob Parenteau

    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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  • Author Image for Steve Sarnoff

    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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    Rocky Vega

    Rocky Vega is publisher of 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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Contributors

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    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 and 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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  • Author Image for Rick Barnard

    Rick Barnard

    Rick Barnard is the associate editor of The Richebächer Letter, Master FX Options Trader and Options Hotline. He has been a member of the Agora Financial team since 1998, researching and editing for almost all of its services. He also worked directly with Dr. Kurt Richebächer and interviewed him for The Daily Reckoning several times. After Dr. Richebächer’s death, Rick helped Addison Wiggin and Rob Parenteau create the Richebächer Society, dedicated to keeping the Good Doctor’s legacy alive. In addition, he works closely with our top options analysts, eager to help readers harness their proven moneymaking power.

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  • Author Image for Chuck Butler

    Chuck Butler

    Chuck Butler is President of EverBank® World Markets and the author of the popular Daily Pfennig newsletter, which is reposted 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.

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  • Author Image for Samantha Buker

    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 Capital & Crisis, Mayer’s Special Situations, and Strategic Short Report.  She  is also a contributor to Whiskey and Gunpowder.

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  • Author Image for Dan Denning

    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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  • Author Image for Kurt Richebächer

    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.

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  • Author Image for The Mogambo Guru

    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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  • Author Image for Matt Insley

    Matt Insley

    Matt Insley is our in-house specialist in 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.

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