Posts by James G. Rickards

On Aug. 22, about 2½ months from today, the most significant development in international finance since 1971 will be unveiled. It involves the rollout of a major new currency that could weaken the role of the dollar in global payments and ultimately displace the U.S. dollar as the leading payment currency and reserve currency. It…

There has been a lot of coverage of election manipulation in the form of ballot harvesting, drop boxes, mail-in ballots, rigged machines, and supposed mail-in ballots that were never mailed but printed en masse and delivered by the truckload. But it turns out that none of that may be needed to rig elections when the…

The climate change movement has always been more about alarmism and propaganda than real science. There is no evidence that human-caused CO2 emissions have a material impact on climate. The real drivers of climate change are solar cycles, volcanoes, ocean currents (including subduction of warmer, saltier water under cold water), and other natural forces that are…

Conservatives have an uphill battle in the political arena these days. The legacy media is dominated by left-wing commentary that excludes contrary views. Regardless of whether Democrats or Republicans occupy the White House, the Deep State will pursue its own agenda, which is generally hostile to conservative views. Even the Republican Party has its share…

Most Americans interested in politics are still replaying the 2020 presidential election in their heads even as we stumble our way into the 2024 presidential election cycle. What happened in 2020 was a landmark in election rigging, even though it has been swept under the rug by mainstream media and most of the political class.…

We’ve all heard a lot about the Deep State over the past eight years. Depending on the source, the Deep State conspired to cover up Hillary Clinton’s private server loaded with TOP SECRET information that she kept in a spare bathroom in her home in Chappaqua, New York. Then the Deep State conducted the fake…

It looks like the much-anticipated Ukrainian spring offensive may finally be getting underway. Yesterday, Russia repelled Ukrainian attacks in five places. It’s very early — these were likely probing attacks looking to detect weak points in Russian defensive positions — but these attacks were much heavier than previous probing attacks. We’ll have to see what…

ChatGPT and artificial intelligence (AI) are all the rage right now. In fact, AI and GPT together are almost the only drivers of positive stock market performance today. A small group of companies with advanced capabilities in AI/GPT (Microsoft, NVIDIA, Google, Apple, and a few others) are rallying sharply on the profit and productivity potential…

The Biden administration is playing political games with one of America’s most critical national security assets – the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). This is not the first time. In fact, it’s a continuation of political oil price manipulation begun in early 2022 in an effort to manipulate the mid-term elections in favor of Democrats. Biden…

ChatGPT and its artificial intelligence (AI) precursors are all the rage. “Chat” is really a brand. The initials GPT stand for generative pre-trained transformer architecture that uses large language models (LLM) and natural language processing (NLP) to answer queries (called “prompts”) posed in plain language with plain language replies. In fact, AI and GPT together…