Posts by James G. Rickards

I’m sure you recall the banking crisis of March to May 2023. It began with the collapse of the little-known Silvergate Bank on March 8. This was followed the next day by the collapse of the much larger Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) on March 9. SVB had over $120 billion in uninsured deposits. Bank deposits…

The steady path toward World War III continues. U.S. and NATO support for Ukraine in the war with Russia has been one long failure, but that hasn’t stopped them from escalating the war with new weapons and tactics. Russia has met the escalation with its own escalation every step of the way. At what point…

As mentioned above, the steady path toward World War III continues. Here’s another example. U.S. and NATO support for Ukraine in the war with Russia has been one long failure, but that has not stopped them from escalating the war with new weapons and tactics. Russia has met the escalation with its own escalation every…

There is a long list of reasons why windmills and solar panels can’t support the power grid and why they won’t replace coal, oil and natural gas as sources of energy anytime soon if ever. Of course, nuclear power is another clean option, but the greeniacs have other problems with nuclear. One reason is simple…

During the 2022 mid-term election season, Joe Biden endangered U.S. national security to win a few votes in congressional elections. He did this by draining the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). The SPR was created in 1975 after the Arab oil embargoes of the 1970s. It was intended to give the U.S. a six-month supply of…

In 2020, during the early stages of the pandemic, I wrote my book The New Great Depression, which covered the pandemic itself and its economic consequences. In that book, I explained why the COVID virus came from a Chinese laboratory, why lockdowns don’t work, why social distancing and masks don’t work, and how it would be…

I began studying nuclear war-fighting in 1969 and have continued my studies for decades. The scholarly materials I used in the late 1960s were mainly written in the late 1950s (after a decade of thermonuclear tests by the U.S. and the Soviet Union) and the early 1960s (informed by a near nuclear holocaust from the…

The full ramifications of the guilty verdict against Trump have yet to be felt. It was the first time in U.S. history that any president has been convicted of a crime during or after leaving office. Now Trump will have to run for president as a “convicted felon,” which the media has been repeating over…

We all know about the non-stop lawfare attacks on Donald Trump. You might like Trump or hate him, but it shouldn’t matter. Every American who cares about justice and the rule of law should be concerned about them. It corrodes the system of justice that’s long been a source of national pride. Besides being a…

The neo-Nazis in Kiev are working overtime to find ways to get the U.S. and NATO directly involved in the fighting in Ukraine. That’s the only way that Ukraine has even a remote chance of avoiding defeat at the hands of the Russians. It’s also a sure path to escalation and direct warfare between the…