Addison Wiggin is the Founding Director of the Grey Swan Investment Fraternity. He is also the host of The Wiggin Sessions @ Grey Swan, a podcast featuring “real conversations and insights from real experts” on economics, politics, and the financial markets. You can find his financial and economic analysis in the Grey Swan’s Daily Missive.
Addison Wiggin is a writer, publisher, and filmmaker whose works include the film I.O.U.S.A. (view the 2008 trailer). He is also a 3-time New York Times best-selling author of Demise of the Dollar, Financial Reckoning Day and Empire of Debt, each available in their 3rd post-pandemic editions. He also wrote and edited The Little Book of the Shrinking Dollar in the John Wiley & Sons series.
The New York Times Magazine, The Economist, Worth, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and significant news network programs have highlighted Wiggin’s work.
In 2000, Mr. Wiggin founded Agora Financial and served as Executive Publisher until 2020. Agora Financial and its spinoff Paradigm Press are among the largest independent financial research firms headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, with 1.2 million readers.
Early in his career, he co-founded The Daily Reckoning with Bill Bonner, widely acclaimed as the first and longest-running financial newsletter on the Internet. The duo became known at the time for unveiling the fraud that came with the .Com Bubble of the early 2000s. Later, he forecasted the housing bubble and Financial Panic of 2008 when TIME Magazine named him part of “The Armageddon Gang.”
Following his work in Empire of Debt, Wiggin wrote and was Executive Producer of the acclaimed documentary I.O.U.S.A. (2008 trailer), nominated for the Grand Jury prize at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, the 2009 Critics Choice Award and shortlisted for a 2009 Academy Award. The film highlighted for a popular audience the 4 great deficits faced by the U.S. economy: trade, savings, budget… and leadership. The film’s protagonist is David Walker, then comptroller general of the U.S. Government.
Notable interview subjects for the film and the Wiggin Sessions include Warren Buffett, Alan Greenspan, Robert Ruin, Pete Peterson, Arthur Laffer, Ron Paul, Steve Forbes, Jim Rickards, Alex Green, Porter Stansberry, Bill Bonner, Martin Armstrong, and hundreds more.
Wiggin was executive producer and writer of the biopic Choose Yourself: James Altucher Story, which is available on Netflix. He also wrote the online mini-series What Went Wrong with America: A Tragedy in Four Parts, which is a short history of the American political economy in the 21st Century.
Over the years, Mr. Wiggin has lectured and developed business strategy across 6 continents. He is also a founding board member of Dealing With Debt (D.W.D.), a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to enhancing the public health of Americans, “one budget at a time.” In an effort to address the nation’s debt crisis, D.W.D. provides education, adult financial literacy, and a robust online support system for U.S. consumers seeking to manage their own debt and plant seeds for future wealth.
Addison’s diverse interests are also on display in published essays like:
Everything I Need To Know About The Free Market I Learned by Following The Grateful Deadon the traveling band of hippies and the commercial subculture that followed the original jam band
The Mystery of Wyncliffe on the origins of the phrase “Keeping up with the Jones’s” and a deep dive into American consumer culture
The Hard Math of Demography on the role of population shifts played in the great Western revolutions.
In ongoing commentary, he’s examining the radical ideology of climate change protestors inspired by an expedition to the Great Polar Ice Sheets with climate scientists near the Inuit village of Ilulissat, Greenland.
Millions of readers continue to follow his economic research, financial commentary, and off-the-grid investment ideas.