Posts by James G. Rickards

Inflation peaked in June 2022 at a 9.1% year-over-year rate. It has come down significantly since then, but it still remains at a 3.2% rate, which is uncomfortably high and still far from the Federal Reserve’s goal of 2% inflation. The rate at which oil and gasoline prices have come down has been faster than…

The war in Ukraine will be two years old next February. Those who expected a dramatic victory by Ukrainian forces have not only been disappointed, but they have had to face the reality that Ukraine is losing the war badly and that Ukraine itself will cease to exist as an independent country before long. The…

We’ve written extensively about the non-stop efforts of Trump’s elite enemies to make sure he never becomes president again. These efforts began with Hillary Clinton’s Russia hoax in 2016 that paralyzed Trump for the first two years of his presidency. This was followed by the first impeachment that involved a brief Trump phone call to…

The evidence that the FBI has degenerated into a political goon squad to enforce the policies of Joe Biden and to attack his political opponents is all around us. Still, new examples keep popping up. Here’s the latest. The situation inside the FBI is so corrupt that a few honest agents have come forward as whistleblowers…

There was ample evidence of election fraud in the 2022 mid-term elections. In Maricopa County, Arizona (the Phoenix area), voters were given paper ballots to fill out, which were then read by scanners that electronically counted the votes. However, the paper ballots were the wrong size for the scanners and were rejected. Those ballots were…

After several weeks of seeming chaos in October, the House of Representatives finally elected a new Speaker of the House. There were several rounds of voting. Steve Scalise was popular but fell far short of the votes needed to be elected speaker because he was opposed by the most conservative Republicans. Jim Jordan was the…

All wars have elements of tragedy, and sadly, all wars involve civilian casualties. Yet not all civilian casualties are the result of war crimes. Some may be and others are not, depending on all of the facts and circumstances and the intentions or recklessness of the warring parties. It’s difficult to think of a more…

The past three years have been one long saga of the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI waging war on Joe Biden’s political enemies. The biggest disgrace was the treatment of defendants arrested as a result of the January 6, 2021, riot on Capitol Hill. No one justifies the acts of violence such as…

Students of World War II know that “Tora, Tora, Tora” was the signal sent by fighter-bomber pilots to their aircraft carriers during the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The exact meaning of the term Tora is disputed by scholars, but the consensus is that it was an abbreviated form of a…

Why has the U.S. sent over $100 billion to Ukraine, with more on the way, plus Patriot missile batteries, Abrams tanks, Bradley Fighting Vehicles, HIMARS precision-guided artillery, Stinger anti-tank missiles, and much more besides? According to the warmongers like Joe Biden, Victoria Nuland, Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham, we have to…