Aug 22 2007
BONNER & RAJIVA
Bill Bonner
is the Founder and President of Agora Inc., one of the world’s most successful consumer newsletter publishing companies, and the creator of The Daily Reckoning, a contrarian financial newsletter sent via e-mail.
Bill Bonner’s passion for international travel and big ideas are reflected in the company he’s successfully built. In 1979, he began publishing International Living and Hulbert’s Financial Digest. Since then, Agora has grown to include dozens of newsletters focusing on finance, health and travel. Since the early 1990s, Bill Bonner has vigorously expanded from Agora’s home base in Baltimore, opening offices in London, Paris, Bonn, Waterford, Ireland, and Johannesburg, South Africa.
Agora’s publication subsidiaries include Pickering & Chatto, a prestigious academic press in London, and Les Belles Lettres in Paris, best known as a publisher of classical literature.
He is the author of the international bestsellers Financial Reckoning Day, (with A. Wiggin) Empire of Debt (with A. Wiggin) and Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets (co-authored with Lila Rajiva).
Lila Rajiva
Lila Rajiva is a co-author (with Bill Bonner) of “Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets.” She is previously the author of “The Language of Empire: Abu Ghraib and the American Media,” (Monthly Review Press, December, 2005), a political best-seller in Canada and Germany and a reference work at around 300 universities and colleges from Yale to St. Andrews and Amherst.
She has contributed to “One of the Guys: Women as Aggressors and Torturers,” ed. Tara McKelvey and Barbara Ehrenreich, Seal Press, 2007 as well as to academic journals in philosophy and politics.
She has taught media studies and music. Her popular writing includes 75 articles for Dissident Voice, Counterpunch, The Daily Reckoning, India-West, Outlook India, Money Week, Alternet, Lew Rockwell, Common Dreams, Antiwar, The Rational Review, Himal South Asian and the Baltimore Chronicle.
She is a contributing editor at Agora Financial.
