Posts by James G. Rickards

The entire electric vehicle (EV) scam is coming undone quickly. Don’t get me wrong – EVs are fine as golf carts; they just don’t work on real highways. First came the spate of exploding batteries and car fires. Then came the news that the resale value of EVs is close to zero because the buyer…

Even political junkies (and I admit, I’m one) are having difficulty following all the legal drama surrounding Donald Trump. There is an effort to kick Trump off the ballot on the grounds that he is an “insurrectionist” as defined in the 14th Amendment. This has succeeded in three states – Colorado, Maine, and Illinois –…

Sometimes the identification of a public policy problem is stupid because there really is no problem. Sometimes the solution to a problem is stupid even if there is a problem in the first place. What’s annoying about the climate alarm hoax is that both the problem and the solution are stupid. There is no need for climate…

A few years ago, the total outstanding principal on student loans was $1.6 trillion. Just to put that in perspective, that’s eight times the mortgage losses in the S&L meltdown of the 1980s and almost double the size of subprime mortgages in the 2007 financial crisis. Biden wanted to forgive these loans to pander for…

Is it possible to hate Trump so much and persist in the so-called “resistance” so long that you actually wear yourself out? According to this report, the answer may well be “yes.” The Trump hatred started almost exactly on the day he came down the escalator in the Trump Tower in 2015 to announce he was…

Longevity is no defense when the State of New York makes it impossible to conduct your business. As reported here, the 200-year-old gun manufacturer Remington has decided to close its plant in Ilion, New York and move to a new facility in LaGrange, Georgia. As described in the article, “Remington said it no longer feels welcomed…

You’ve seen the stories about how Donald Trump and his businesses have been treated in the State of New York. The State Attorney General Letitia James ran for election on a platform of destroying Trump. She said so explicitly in her campaign appearances and TV ads. She brought what is normally a routine business records…

We’ve all heard a lot (maybe too much) about Tucker Carlson’s recent interview with Vladimir Putin. It was a journalistic tour de force. Carlson spent years arranging it and outclassed all of the other so-called journalists who could not get the interview, either because they didn’t really want to or because the Russians knew it…

I never saw anything wrong with the slogan “America First,” and I still don’t. If you’re an American and you love America, why wouldn’t you want to see America first? And I don’t hold it against any other country or population that feels the same way. I would expect Germans to say, “Germany First,” and…

Remember BLM? That stands for Black Lives Matter, although I called the group Bolshevik Lives Matter in order to highlight its neo-Marxist and anti-American roots. BLM has been around for years, but it exploded into public view in connection with the George Floyd riots in the summer of 2020. BLM used lies, propaganda, and white…