| Heading up the Strategic Investment team: |
 | Addison Wiggin.
Addison is executive publisher of Agora Financial. He's also our resident New York Times best-selling author, whose works include the very timely The Demise of the Dollar. He and Bill Bonner also teamed up towrite Financial Reckoning Day and Empire of Debt. This latter work is the basis for a Sundance Film Festival prize-nominated documentary: I.O.U.S.A., which Addison recently wrote and produced. |
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 | Eric Fry
Contributor Eric Fry mans the post of editorial director for our famed Rude Awakening -- a hard-hitting market wake-up call. This international equities specialist knows a good short sell when he sees one. He spent over a decade as a portfolio manager and worked alongside James Grant of Grant's Interest Rate Observer.
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 | Chris Mayer
Contributor Chris Mayer is our banking insider par excellence. He cut his teeth as credit analyst for Riggs Bank and became vice president of corporate lending at Provident Bank…all before his 30th birthday. He never lost money on a deal. His in-depth financial analysis has been picked up by the esteemed Ludwig von Mises Institute. He began his own newsletter, Capital & Crisis, which we proudly publish today…in addition to his fast-track profiteering letter, Mayer's Special Situations. You can also find him on the best-seller roster with Invest Like a Dealmaker. |
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 | Ian Mathias
Contributor Ian "Extreme" Mathias sifts through the day's financial news as managing editor of our Executive Series service The 5 Min. Forecast. That's all you need to know about the day's markets that you can read in five minutes or less. We call him "Extreme" not just because he keeps tabs on the market's record lows and highs. His lightning-quick wit delivers knowledge with an edge. |
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 | Dan Amoss
Contributor Dan Amoss, CFA, joined Agora Financial from Investment Counselors of Maryland. There, he acted as investment adviser for one of the top small-cap value mutual funds over the past 15 years. As a buy-side analyst, Dan refined his value investing approach by meeting with corporate executives and sell-side analysts and writing proprietary research for the fund's management team. Now he covers the short side of the market in his Strategic Short Report. |
And they aren't the only ones… We're always featuring special contributors from our vast network of options traders, gold bugs, foreign investors, and other market "insiders." Whenever actionable investing ideas arise, you'll get them first. |
