Posts by James G. Rickards

The Fed raised interest rates again last week. But that’s the past. What does the future look like? Today, you’ll receive a full recap of what happened with last week’s Fed meeting. I’ll explain what happened in terms of policy moves, what Fed Chair Jay Powell believes will happen next, and what will actually happen.…

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…

The Supreme Court recently ruled that so-called “affirmative action” in college admissions is an unconstitutional form of racial discrimination and must be ended. Affirmative action is the policy of lowering standards for black applicants relative to white applicants. This was always a form of anti-white racial discrimination, but it was allowed on a temporary basis…

Many non-expert armchair generals believe a Chinese invasion of Taiwan will be easy to see coming in advance. It’s a huge logistical exercise involving tens of thousands of troops, navy vessels, landing craft, air cover, supplies, ammunition, and much more. Surely this can be seen by satellite images, drones, and other sources and the Taiwanese…

There’s a long list of Trump policy positions I agree with completely. Build the wall, lower taxes, put tariffs on Chinese imports, try to bring manufacturing jobs back to the United States, hold NATO’s feet to the fire on defense expenditures, support local schooling and parental rights, and many more. While I support Trump’s positions,…

The U.S. media continually lie about the status of the War in Ukraine. So, it’s not surprising most Americans don’t know what’s going on. The much-proclaimed Ukrainian “summer offensive” toward the Sea of Azov failed catastrophically within days of being launched in early June. Casualties were high, numerous Leopard tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles were…

The currency wars are alive and well. Here’s the latest battle… Over the past nine months, the Japanese yen rallied 13% against the dollar. But now the yen has started to fall in value. This decline is not surprising. Japan’s economy has been flirting with recession. A new recession, likely in my view, would be…

The war in Ukraine has revealed U.S. military weakness. Patriot anti-missile batteries are being blown up by the Russians. U.S. HIMARS artillery has proved worthless because the Russians can jam the GPS transmitters and cause the shells of go off course. Joe Biden recently admitted publicly that Ukraine and the U.S. are both out of…

The War in Ukraine has many facets. At the most basic level is the war on the ground. That’s the war that Ukraine is losing decisively. The Ukrainian counteroffensive was annihilated in the south in the opening days and is in retreat in the north. Casualties have been high, and the Russians have destroyed an…

It’s important to recall what we were told about the pandemic from 2020 to 2022 in light of what we now know. We were told the virus came from a “wet market.” That’s a lie; it came from a Chinese lab in Wuhan. We were told that the “vaccines” would prevent infection and stop the…