Posts by James G. Rickards

The litany of ways the Democrats rigged the elections in 2020 and 2022 keeps getting longer. Mark Zuckerberg spent $350 million to replace volunteer poll watchers in 2,500 jurisdictions across the country with professional partisans who favored Democrat candidates. In Maricopa County, Arizona, officials calibrated scanners that read paper ballots for a certain width and…

Here’s the latest on FBI efforts to weaponize the justice system and put conservatives under constant government surveillance: The FBI and U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) recently sent letters to U.S. banks. They asked the banks to identify and provide a list to the government of customers using Zelle, Venmo, and similar payment channels who mentioned…

At a recent New Hampshire campaign rally, Donald Trump reiterated what he’s been saying for months: that central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are dangerous and he would never allow one if elected: Tonight, I am also making another promise to protect Americans from government tyranny. As your president, I will never allow the creation of…

Three U.S. military personnel were tragically killed and at least 34 wounded, some seriously, over the weekend in what the U.S. government claimed was a drone attack in northern Jordan. There’s some doubt about whether it was a drone because 37 casualties is a large number for a drone attack. A larger missile is a…

Inflation Gives Fed the Finger Is inflation over? Actually, no. And it may be getting worse. Let’s begin the analysis with the latest data. Last Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that inflation (as measured by the Consumer Price Index, CPI, on a year-over-year basis) was 3.4%. That’s practically the Federal Reserve’s worst nightmare.…

The electronic vehicle, EV, scam is worse than you think. One can only sympathize with the thousands of owners who are finding out the hard way why EV technology was abandoned around 1915 in favor of the internal combustion engine (ICE). It turns out that not only do EV batteries occasionally explode, but they also…

News that the Green New Scam is being exposed and the climate cult is losing ground keeps arriving every day. Recent surveys show younger people are much more skeptical of the costs of climate alarmism and don’t want to abandon existing energy systems even if they do partially buy into the climate change narrative. John…

The German economy experienced a recession in 2023. GDP for the full year was down relative to 2022. The factors behind this are continuing, and 2024 is set to be a second straight year of recession for Germany. Of course, other economies, including China, Japan, and the UK, are either slowing or already in recession.…

We now know with certainty (and had good reason to know in 2020) that the SARS-CoV-2 virus that caused the pandemic was bioengineered in the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China. The research, which involved gain-of-function experiments with bat coronaviruses, was funded by Francis Collins and Anthony Fauci, both formerly with the National Institutes…

We’ve written extensively about the War in Ukraine. There’s no need to repeat all the details here. It’s enough to say that the U.S. provoked the war from 2008 to 2022, Russia responded with a special military operation in 2022, Russia is winning, and Ukraine is close to defeat. On the financial side, the U.S.…