Posts by James G. Rickards

Climate alarmism (what I call The Green New Scam) has been ruining the landscape, killing whales and birds, causing brownouts and blackouts, costing taxpayers trillions of dollars in wasted subsidies, and degrading lifestyles for decades. The alarmists and activists and their elite enablers have been doing this behind a smokescreen of defective models, false data,…

It’s impossible to glance at headlines today without finding a climate change story. These stories are not limited to technical discussions about carbon emissions. They’re about everything! You see stories about how fireplaces and natural gas stoves are warming the planet. You see stories about how eating cheeseburgers is warming the planet because beef is…

You’ve seen the news on uncontrolled shoplifting in major cities. That’s bad enough. But there are a number of backstories that make the situation much worse than the headlines and have major implications for the economy as a whole. The first reaction to the shoplifting stories is often, “Hey, just hire more security guards!” That…

Sometimes the greatest strength you can have in a contest is the incompetence and weakness of your opponent. Trump seems to be the beneficiary of that phenomenon. Whatever Trump’s legal, financial and political problems are, he is boosted by the sheer stupidity of his political enemies. This article offers a comprehensive list of the ways Trump’s opponents…

We informed readers several months ago that the FBI had been conducting surveillance of Catholics as part of their campaign against so-called “domestic terrorists.” Of course, many other groups and individuals were subject to the same type of surveillance because they peacefully demonstrated on January 6, purchased guns and ammo, gave campaign contributions to conservative…

Censorship pushed by the White House was not limited to the social media companies and U.S. government agencies directly involved with healthcare. The National Science Foundation (NSF), which is supposed to be a non-partisan supporter of pure research in hard sciences, spent millions of dollars to promote AI research by the University of Michigan, MIT,…

We’ve seen ample evidence that social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter (now X), and Google (owner of YouTube) engaged in widespread censorship of any reporting or analysis that disagreed with the White House party line. If you pointed out that the pandemic “vaccines” were actually experimental gene-modification therapies with lethal side effects, you were kicked…

Few Americans realize how large the government-guaranteed student loan debt burden actually is and who pays the bill when the loans are forgiven. The total amount of debt is about $1.6 trillion. That’s larger than the baseline budget deficit of the U.S. government for an entire year. It’s almost 6% of total gross domestic product.…

There’s nothing new about Joe Biden’s efforts to destroy the U.S. oil and gas industry. These efforts began on day one of his administration with orders to shut down construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, which would have brought Canadian oil to U.S. distribution networks. Biden went on to ban new oil and gas exploration…

The 2024 presidential election is emerging as one of those elections where third parties could play a decisive role. Almost all presidential elections include some third-party candidates, but these are rarely of much importance. The Green Party has been on the ballot in recent years, but its candidates don’t get more than 1% or 2%…