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 internationally, and recently updated. 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. Since 1999, Bill has been a daily contributor and the driving force behind The Daily Reckoning. Dice Have No Memory: Big Bets & Bad Economics from Paris to the Pampas, the new book from Bill Bonner, is now available for purchase. It is the definitive compendium of Bill’s daily reckonings from more than a decade: 1999-2010. 

Pierre Lemieux

Pierre Lemieux, economist, author, professor, and consultant, Pierre Lemieux is Senior Fellow at the Montreal Economic Institute. He holds a Research Fellow Position at The Independent Institute in Oakland, California and is affiliated with the Department of Management Sciences at the University of Quebec in Outaouais.

Lemieux, a frequent contributor to the National Post, has been published in Paris and Montreal and translated into various languages. His most recent work is Somebody in Charge: A Solution for Recessions (New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2011), which speaks to his focus on individual liberty. Lemieux currently lives in Maine. He maintains websites at pierrelemieux.org and pierrelemieux.com.