Posts by James G. Rickards

We know that the investigation and prosecution of those who participated in the January 6, 2021 protest on Capitol Hill following Trump’s loss in the 2020 election has been one of the great miscarriages of justice in history. A small number of the participants did break windows and doors and caused some property damage and…

Insider trading by Capitol Hill politicos has been an ongoing scandal for years. The U.S. economy is heavily regulated in almost every industry imaginable, including energy, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, technology, defense, transportation, and many more. Those regulations are imposed by countless bureaucrats operating in cabinet departments, independent agencies and through the courts. Authority for those regulations…

Major universities have endowments in the tens of billions of dollars. These endowments come from a variety of sources including taxpayer funds (for state sponsored universities), alumni gifts, foundation gifts, earnings generated from intellectual property royalties and other sources. Of course, the endowment funds are invested in stocks, bonds, real estate and other assets, which…

It was widely reported over the course of September 27 that Israel had killed the leader of Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah with a massive air strike on several buildings south of Beirut in Lebanon. By September 28, those reports were confirmed and Israel announced that it had indeed killed the leader of the group that directs terror with…

The lawfare attacks on Donald Trump have not been in the headlines lately but that does not mean they’ve all gone away. We’re in a bit of a quiet period at the moment but things will hot up again in the near future just in time for Election Day and a possible Trump victory. Here’s…

What’s amazing about the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is that it not only protects free speech but does so in the clearest possible way. “Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government…

Media bias against conservatives and nationalists like Donald Trump and his MAGA supporters is old news. That has been around for decades, well before Trump. What’s new is the outright lying. There’s not even a pretense of objective journalism anymore. The corporate media (NBC, CBS, ABC, New York Times, Washington Post, Politico and their fellow…

Body language is a powerful signal that very few can control. Research shows that when guests appear on television, the viewers hear almost nothing of what is being said. Instead, they focus on the face and demeanor of the speaker. Is the speaker being honest? Can I trust this person? Is this person self-confident and…

Democrat efforts to steal the 2020 presidential election are very well documented. In key states such as Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona and Wisconsin, requirements that mail-in ballots have signatures on the ballot and the envelope that could be compared were ignored. Other mail-in ballots were discarded after supposedly being “counted” so that no paper trail existed.…

This open letter is a little different from the articles we usually select for inclusion in our Five Links publication. On the one hand, it was published and is widely available on the internet and was commented upon in several news articles. On the other hand, it’s not exactly a news article itself, as mentioned, it’s an…