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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. 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…

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  2. Opportunity Slipping Away April 11, 2012

    Last chance to catch the clue train for maximum profits: New York Times hitches to Byron King’s “Remade in America” theme… Plus:

    Worst sell-off of 2012 already fading into memory: What Marc Faber’s doing now with stocks and gold…

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  3. Real-Time Fed Failure April 10, 2012

    Bernanke fesses up to Fed fallibility… one day before “stimulus” evaporates… Plus: Europe, the Dow, small caps all get whacked as “backdoor bailouts” fail… again…

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  4. How Vietnam Won the West April 9, 2012

    World Right Side Up in real time: Foreigner buys his own ZIP code in Wyoming. Plus… A delayed snit: U.S. stocks take a beating. One unlikely reason the unemployment numbers are as grim as they look.

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  5. Eat the Rich April 5, 2012

    “Eat the rich” the graffiti says: One day after the shot heard ’round… er, Europe… Plus, bailed-out banks or “overpriced” video games? What really gets Americans’ goat in 2012…

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  6. Symbolic Suicide: Will Anyone Notice? April 4, 2012

    Which is the bigger sign of the times? A public act of suicide in Greece or a public act of extortion in Washington? Faber’s forecast: What to do when the “well-to-do” lose 50% of their wealth.

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  7. The “Tax Anything” Issue April 3, 2012

    Unused gift cards and other things you never thought the government could tax. Plus… An emerging economy set to double in two years…

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  8. Tax-Out Day April 2, 2012

    Ireland’s tax revolt: Distant warning signal for what’s coming to the United States. Plus… With a 15-minute procedure, Patrick Cox is on his way to near-immortality: How pie-in-the-sky research four years ago is reality this morning.

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  9. $4 Gas Here to Stay: Here’s What to Do March 29, 2012

    Is “the world’s swing producer” losing control? Why oil stays persistently above the House of Saud’s $100 target. Plus, why oil is set to stay high even if the White House breaks into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (again)… and the unique

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  10. Trouble, Trayvon, and Three Flashpoints March 28, 2012

    Andrew Wordes (ignored) vs. Trayvon Martin (hyped): What both say about the coming chaos… Plus: Three flashpoints this spring and summer for trouble in the streets… and the crackdown that will catch the innocent in its net.

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