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Addison Wiggin
Addison Wiggin

Addison Wiggin, Editorial Director of The Daily Reckoning USA, has been a writer and commentator of financial markets for over a decade. With a Master’s degree in Philosophy and experience working with the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C., Addison has acquired both a macroeconomic and contrarian’s outlook on domestic and international markets. He is also co-author, with Bill Bonner, of the international bestseller Financial Reckoning Day and a frequent guest on national US radio and television programs.

 
 
The history of printed money - by Addison Wiggin

...History has shown that money - not counterfeit, but official money printed by the government - has been known to lose value and become virtually worthless...


America closer to bankruptcy - by Addison Wiggin

...In his bestseller, 'Running on Empty', former US Republican Pete Peterson attempted to gauge the difficulty of even determining the burden we Americans are now placed on future generations...


Evening in America - by Addison Wiggin

"...Morning often looks a lot like evening - if you face the wrong way at the right time. In 1982, interest rates were high and stock prices were low. In 1982, there were a few people who wanted to buy stocks, and many who didn't. In 1982, America Inc. looked like a has-been economy. Yet, at that very moment, had an investor turned around, he would have noticed a brightening eastern sky..."


Financial vulnerability - by Addison Wiggin

...A shrinking dollar, growing federal debt, increasing trade gap, record-high consumer debt, mortgage bubble, rising oil prices, inflation, flat productivity, falling wages...the US faces many problems, all part of the same trend translating to financial vulnerability...


How Mississippi John Laws innovation made Millionaires - by Addison Wiggin

"...John Law tried to keep up his paper money scam a little longer, rounding up all the beggars, bums and thieves in Paris, furnishing them with picks and shovels, and marching them through town... ostensibly on their way to New Orleans and the gold mines of Mississippi..."


Talking down the dollar - by Addison Wiggin

"...Can you imagine what would have happened had the banks not pumped that money into the US Fed's reserves? One former currency trader asked, 'If $40 billion cannot bring about even a minor rally, just how weak and despised is the once-almighty dollar?'..."


The Story Of Energy - by Addison Wiggin

"...What would the world do without energy? And what will China, the US and India do with coal, when its broken down into tiny pieces...and turned into synthetic oil?..."


The Mystery Of Wyndclyffe - by Addison Wiggin

"...What ever happened to the true history of capitalism? A classique essay, first run on 1st October 2003...the very day we launched our Remorse Price of Gold at $400/oz..."


For The Cautiously Optimistic - by Addison Wiggin

"...In a 2001 Barrons interview, Jeremy Grantham unveiled the conclusions he had drawn following an extensive study of market bubbles, including stocks, bonds, commodities and currencies - 28 bubbles in all. Grantham and his associates defined a bubble as "a 40-year event in which statistics went well beyond the norm, a two-standard-deviation event."..."


The Era Of Fictitious Capitalism - by Addison Wiggin

"...When 'real value' is no longer what seems to matter...you can be sure it matters more than ever..."



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