Jim Rickards

James G. Rickards is the editor of Strategic Intelligence, the newest newsletter from Fat Tail Investment Research. He is an American lawyer, economist, and investment banker with 35 years of experience working in capital markets on Wall Street. He is the author of The New York Times bestsellers Currency Wars and The Death of Money. Jim also serves as Chief Economist for West Shore Group.

Jim Rickards

10/03/2022

Jim Rickards on How the Pandemic Has Sparked a Multi-Generational Shift

Jim believes the pandemic is not going away and talks about the impacts on the economy, the technical recession, and in fact he thinks we are in a depression which is worse than a recession.

Jim Rickards

10/03/2022

Jim Rickards: Why isn’t the gold price climbing with governments buying?

In this video, Jim Rickards answers a reader's question: Why hasn’t the gold price gone through the roof over the last few years

Jim Rickards

07/03/2022

Jim Rickards : World Economic Forum’s Great Reset

Jim Rickards provides an update on the Great Reset Agenda, which was a prevalent topic of discussion prior to the pandemic.

Jim Rickards

03/01/2022

A Miserable Outlook

The miserable outlook for the world’s most important economy The Biden economic program — of more spending, higher taxes, more regulation, open borders, and a war on fossil fuels — is coming

Jim Rickards

31/01/2017

The Ice-Nine Lockdown

Ice-Nine is a freeze of the financial system. It’s something that’s happened before, and it’ll happen again in the next crisis.

Jim Rickards

27/08/2016

Smashing Three Pig-Stupid Gold Standard Myths

No central banker would ever willingly choose to go back on a gold standard. But in a scenario where there’s a total loss in confidence, they’ll likely have to go back to a gold standard.

Jim Rickards

22/08/2016

WHAT? Jim Rickards’ Shock About-Turn on Gold

Jim Rickards plays gold basher advocate and tries to think of some ways to make a case against gold. Enjoy…

Jim Rickards

09/08/2016

How the IMF uses SDRs to Create ‘Back Door’ Inflation

Everything about the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is designed to make it difficult for outsiders like you to have any idea what is going on. It prints money like most central banks, but this world money has the opaque name of special drawing right, or SDR.

Jim Rickards

12/04/2016

Japan and the Secret Shanghai Accord

Based on the Shanghai Accord and the dynamics of currency cross-rates, we expect the strong yen trend to continue for several years. That’s bad news for major Japanese corporations.

Jim Rickards

26/01/2016

What is the Impossible Trinity?

Once you see a country trying to achieve the Impossible Trinity, you can be sure their system will break down one way or another.