Daily Reckoning Named A Top Five Guest Business Blog by Christian Science Monitor

Online, February 9, 2011 (Newswire.com) - The Christian Science Monitor announced that The Daily Reckoning, a publication of Baltimore-based Agora Financial, LLC, has been selected as one of the top five business blogs that offered Monitor readers penetrating and topical economic analysis and opinion throughout 2010.

The Daily Reckoning was founded in 1999, at the launch of the Internet era. Starting from humble beginnings in a small office in Paris, Bill Bonner and Addison Wiggin created one of the world's first email newsletters.

Fast-forward to 2011, and in addition to the United States, The Daily Reckoning is published in the United Kingdom, Australia, France, Germany, and South Africa. It provides over half a million subscribers with literary economic perspective, international market analysis, and contrarian investment ideas. In short, it helps readers live well in uncertain times and make sense of the ever-changing global economy.

The citation on the award reads, "The response by Monitor readers supports the fact that Bill Bonner seems to write as effortlessly as most of us breathe."

Upon receiving the award, Addison Wiggin said, "The aim of all Agora Financial publications is to compete in the marketplace of ideas. This honor is recognition that we are accomplishing our goal."

Agora Financial, LLC, is a Baltimore-based publisher of over a dozen financial and investment advisory newsletters, including Capital & Crisis, Energy & Scarcity Investor, Penny Stock Fortunes, Resource Trader Alert and Strategic Short Report. The editors of these publications have been recognized by The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, the Financial Times, and many other major media outlets for their honest, unconventional, and unbiased independent financial research.
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