Posts by James G. Rickards

What happened to Boeing, the former gold standard of American industry? Nothing good, as I’ll show you today. Simply put, Boeing isn’t the company it used to be. By now, I’m sure you’ve heard about the Jan. 6 near crash of a Boeing 737 Max 9 operated by Alaska Airlines, after the fuselage door blew…

Joe Biden has the lowest approval ratings of any modern president. In fact, Biden’s ratings are lower than Richard Nixon at the height of Watergate. When you break the approval polls down by categories such as the economy, the border, national security, etc., the ratings are even lower in many cases. The only national figure…

On Saturday, December 16, 2023, Donald Trump gave a speech in Durham, New Hampshire as reported here. During the speech, Trump said the following about Joe Biden’s energy policies: “You’re going to the poor house to fund his big government Green New Deal, which is a socialist scam, and you know what, you have to be…

Since the rise of the Biden administration, we’ve seen continual efforts to intrude on American lives in violation of laws, rules, and regulations, including the Fourth Amendment. We’ve seen the misuse of FISA secret warrants. We’ve seen FBI goon squads break into people’s homes with automatic weapons and armored personnel carriers when a simple request…

Most Americans are not familiar with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), but it has probably been the source of more abuses aimed at everyday Americans than any other statute. As with many pieces of legislation, the original intentions were good, but the implementation went off the rails and has been subject to extensive abuse.…

We’ve tracked so many ridiculous Biden administration policies over the past three years that one would think the list couldn’t get any longer or more absurd. But that’s an incorrect conclusion. As the 1950s DJs used to say, “The hits just keep on coming!” Biden has proposed banning natural gas stoves, mandating electronic vehicles (EVs),…

The BRICS Leader’s Summit ended on August 24 with a momentous decision to expand the membership of BRICS for the first time since 2010, as reported here. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Argentina, Ethiopia, and Iran were all admitted to membership effective January 1, 2024. Both Brazil and India have some reservations about this…

We’ve warned readers for over a year about the dangers of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), which we described as Biden Bucks. CBDCs are not a new currency. They are an existing currency (the dollar) in a new digital form. The form matters. With the Treasury and the Federal Reserve in charge of the digital…

We’ve written a lot about the government’s desire to eliminate cash. This is a longstanding struggle. In 1968, the U.S. government eliminated the $500 bill. They were in circulation at the time, and even as a kid, I remember seeing a few of those around. After 1968, the largest bill in circulation was the $100…

How much longer can Americans be lied to before the nation’s social fabric shreds completely? To some extent, governments and big media have always lied. In the past, this has been done with good intentions (during times of war when secrecy is needed) or bad (as in cover-ups of blunders and crimes). Americans may be…