Authors
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Dan Amoss
Dan Amoss, CFA, is managing editor for Strategic Short Report and a contributing editor to Whiskey and Gunpowder. Dan 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. 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. Dan has made appearances on MarketWatch, and was quoted in Corporate Finance Review, a Thomson Reuters publication.
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Adrian Ash
Formerly the City correspondent for The Daily Reckoning in London and head of editorial at Fleet Street Publications Ltd, the U.K.'s leading financial advisory for private investors. Adrian Ash is also the editor of Gold News and head of research at BullionVault.
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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 recognized. 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.
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Ed Bugos
Ed is a former Howe Street broker. During the late ’90s, while many Wall Street firms were abandoning commodities altogether, Ed toiled for his clients on the Vancouver Stock Exchange. He was able to make his clients money even during the most vicious bear market for gold in the past two generations. Ed is now excited to take his skills and knowledge of precious metals and apply them to one of the biggest bull markets history has ever seen.
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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 three Agora Financial publications: Capital & Crisis, Mayer's Special Situations, Strategic Short Report. She's wanted to write for Whiskey readers since she first heard about Agora Financial.
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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. InfoWorld and USA Today have featured Patrick's research numerous times. He's also appeared on Crossfire and Nightline. Patrick has been quoted by The Wall Street Journal and Reason magazine. His expertise brought him to Agora Financial, where he now heads Breakthrough Technology Alert, the only place you'll find the truly transformational technologies that offer exponential gains.
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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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Gary Gibson
Gary Gibson is the managing editor for Whiskey & Gunpowder. He joins the Whiskey staff as a long-time fan and reader of both Whiskey & 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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Greg Grillot
Greg Grillot is an erstwhile philosophy student whose only similarity to Socrates is an utter lack of knowledge. Under the inimitable guidance of Byron King, Chris Mayer, Dan Denning, and Addison Wiggin, he hopes to learn enough about the markets and macroeconomics to actually say something meaningful someday. He enjoys jujutsu, Russian literature and pit bulls. He rues the day he left his tree-trimming job for publishing, as he has no time to think anymore.
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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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Byron King
Prior to joining Penny Sleuth, Byron received his Juris Doctor from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, was a cum laude graduate of Harvard University, served on the staff of the Chief of Naval Operations and as a field historian with the Navy. Our resident energy and oil expert, Byron is the editor of Outstanding Investments and Energy and Scarcity Investor. Byron has made frequent appearances in mainstream media such as The Washington Post, MSN Money, Marketwatch.com, Fox Business News, CNBC's Squawk Box, Larry Kudlow, Glenn Beck and PBS Newshour. He also had a feature article written in the Financial Times, and has appeared on both CNN and Marketplace radio broadcasts. Byron has also been quoted in various international publications such as The Guardian and De Volkskrant, and has been a guest on Canada's CBC television broadcast.
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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’s 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's expertise and authority has led to frequent appearances in mainstream media, such as MarketWatch, Bloomberg, Fox Business, CNN Money, and Reuters. He has also made multiple appearances on CNBC and CNBC Europe programs. Alan is currently the editor of Resource Trader Alert, a trading service devoted to raking in profits from hard commodities.
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James Howard Kunstler
James Howard Kunstler is perhaps best known for The Long Emergency, which predicted the financial meltdown and the implications of the peak oil problem. The Geography of Nowhere , about the fiasco of suburbia, is a campus cult classic among the architecture and urban planning students. It was followed by a sequel, Home From Nowhere and The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition . Mr. Kunstler has also authored 10 novels including World Made By Hand, a story set in America's post-oil future. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone and The Atlantic Monthly.
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Chris Mayer
Chris Mayer studied finance at the University of Maryland, graduating magna cum laude. He went on to earn his MBA while embarking on a decade-long career in corporate banking. Chris has been quoted over a dozen times by MarketWatch, and has spoken on Forbes on Fox. He has also spoken on CNN Radio, and has made multiple CNBC appearances. Chris is the editor of Capital and Crisis and Mayer's Special Situations, a monthly report that unearths unique and unconventional opportunities in smaller-cap stocks. In 2008, Chris authored Invest Like a Dealmaker: Secrets From a Former Banking Insider.
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Lord William Rees-Mogg
Lord William Rees-Mogg is the former Editor-in-Chief for The Times of London and a member of the House of Lords. Lord Rees-Mogg has been credited with accurately forecasting glasnost, the fall of the Berlin Wall, as well as the 1987 crash.
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Jim Nelson
Jim Nelson is the managing editor of Penny Sleuth, a sister e-letter of Whiskey & Gunpowder. He has been playing the stock market since he was 14, always with a preference toward smaller companies. He has honed his stock picking skills at Agora Financial since 2004, effectively combining a growth and value approach. Jim is also the editor of Lifetime Income Report and a contributing editor to Penny Stock Fortunes and Bulletin Board Elite.
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Linda Brady Traynham
Linda Brady Traynham is a former editor and analytical project report writer and is now a Whiskey & Gunpowder field correspondent on a ranch in the Republic of Texas. She studied Counseling at Boston University and got her Masters degree in Philosophy from the University of Hawaii.
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Michael Shedlock
Mike Shedlock (Mish) is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. His blog Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis includes commentary every day of the week. Mike is also a contributing "professor" on Minyanville.
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Don Stott
Don Stott is the founder of Colorado Gold and has been selling precious metals since 1977. Don has been writing about Constitutionally-limited government, sound money and personal freedom for years. He has written "Common Sense II", a modern-day update to Thomas Paine seminal work. His articles have also appeared on Gold Eagle.