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Addison Wiggin
Author & Host of The Wiggins Sessions
- Finance
- Economy
- Politics
- 📍Baltimore, MD
Addison Wiggin is a best-selling writer, publisher, and filmmaker, with nearly three decades of experience in financial publishing.
Addison Wiggin is an American writer, publisher, and filmmaker. He has been covering the financial markets, the economy and politics for three decades. An acclaimed New York Times best-selling author, his books include: The Demise of the Dollar, just released in its 3rd Edition covering the dollar from the “bailouts to the pandemic and beyond. Mr. Wiggin is also the co-author, with Bill Bonner, of the best-sellers Financial Reckoning Day, Empire of Debt. He wrote The Little Book of the Shrinking Dollar in the Wiley Little Book series. Addison is also the writer and executive producer of the documentary I.O.U.S.A., an exposé on the national debt, shortlisted for an Academy Award in 2008. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland with his family. Addison started his latest project, The Wiggin Sessions, powered by The Essential Investor, in March 2020. He films from a homegrown studio in his basement.
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BOOK NOW FOR your podcast
Addison Wiggin
Author & Host of The Wiggins Sessions
- 📍Baltimore, MD
- Finance
- Economy
- Politics
Addison Wiggin is a best-selling writer, publisher, and filmmaker, with nearly three decades of experience in financial publishing.
Addison Wiggin is an American writer, publisher, and filmmaker. He has been covering the financial markets, the economy and politics for three decades. An acclaimed New York Times best-selling author, his books include: The Demise of the Dollar, just released in its 3rd Edition covering the dollar from the “bailouts to the pandemic and beyond. Mr. Wiggin is also the co-author, with Bill Bonner, of the best-sellers Financial Reckoning Day, Empire of Debt. He wrote The Little Book of the Shrinking Dollar in the Wiley Little Book series. Addison is also the writer and executive producer of the documentary I.O.U.S.A., an exposé on the national debt, shortlisted for an Academy Award in 2008. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland with his family. Addison started his latest project, The Wiggin Sessions, powered by The Essential Investor, in March 2020. He films from a homegrown studio in his basement.
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“There is never a good time to die. Nor is there a good time for a crash or a slump. Still, death happens. Be prepared. Say something nice to your mother. Offer a bum a drink. And buy gold.”William Bonner & Addison Wiggin in Empire of Debt – The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis.
Bonner and Wiggin gave that advice in the last paragraph of their book. But two years before that, in 2004, the authors wrote another tome: Financial Reckoning Day: Surviving the Soft Depression of the 21st Century, in which they said that the trade of the decade is to sell stocks on rallies and buy gold on dips.
The Daily Reckoning is a freewheeling Web site for libertarians, gold bugs and doom enthusiasts of every stripe. Its editorial director is Addison Wiggin, and before we met, I pictured an “Addison Wiggin” as an ancient gold-hoarding Yankee, and the offices of The Daily Reckoning as a cinder-block bunker patrolled by Minutemen. I was wrong on both counts.
In Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis, which briefly hit business best-seller lists in 2005 and will feature next year in a documentary film by the makers of acclaimed crossword-puzzle geekfest Wordplay, financial-newsletter authors William Bonner and Addison Wiggin draw parallels between the early 21st century U.S. and the decline of Rome and imperial Spain. There are more such jeremiads on sale. I just don’t want to use up all my space listing them.
Bill Bonner and Addison Wiggin are certain that Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan is, at best, incompetent. In their view, Greenspan has made the almost total transformation from an Ayn Rand disciple, a free market adherent ne plus ultra, to the consummate Washington insider, one whose overarching concern at this point is his legacy as a master economic Sherpa.
Timeline
Jan 2020 - Present
The Wiggin Sessions
Host, The Wiggins Sessions, Essential Investor
Aug 2019 - Dec 2022
Consilience
Executive Publisher
Sep 1993 - Sep 2004
Agora Financial Reserve
Founder
Apr 2000 - Aug 2022
The Daily Reckoning
Co-Founder and Publisher
Jun 2010 - Jul 2018
Forbes.com
Blogger, Great Speculations
Jan 1999 - Apr 2000
Cato Institute
Communications
Ask me
| How does the banking crisis relate to the demise of the dollar? |
| What led up to the Fed's most dramatic, aggressive rate hikes in modern history? |
| How do the Fed and Treasury deal with financial crises? |
| Why was the end of Bretton Woods in 1971 so important to today's financial system? |
| Why does it matter to individual investors? |
| What role do politics play in managing the money in your wallet? |
