Posts by James G. Rickards

As described in this article, Joe Biden is in a desperate race. Will he be reelected president before the law closes in on the Biden crime family and their many shakedown operations? The Hunter Biden laptop contents, first reported by the New York Post in October 2020, made it clear that Joe Biden and his family members,…

Joe Biden rarely speaks without telling a lie or garbling facts beyond recognition. He continually makes up stories about things his mom or dad told him 70 or 75 years ago, beginning with, “Joey…” and then completing the anecdote with some canned advice designed to make Biden look like a regular guy. He has lied…

The media are filled with stories about artificial intelligence (AI) and the newest version called generative pre-trained transformers (GPT). The ChatGPT app you’ve heard so much about is just a user-friendly version of GPT-AI that you can interact with. You download ChatGPT and then ask it to answer questions or perform various tasks. You can…

This article is a timely reminder that the new banking crisis is not over – it’s just on pause for the time being. We had a few weeks of borderline crisis from March 9 through March 20 with the sequential failures of Silvergate Bank (March 9), Silicon Valley Bank (March 10), Signature Bank (March 12), and the…

Up to a certain point, I considered many Biden administration policies to be dumb or reckless. How could they spend so much money without regard to GDP and growth prospects? How could they impose so many regulations without regard to hidden costs and declining productivity? How could pandemic-related deficit spending and handouts not be expected…

In the aftermath of the leak of TOP SECRET information showing how the government has consistently lied to the American people about progress in the War in Ukraine, the FBI arrested a Massachusetts Air National Guardsman named Jack Teixeira and accused him of being the leaker. We’ll let justice take its course in that case.…

It’s a fact of life that in any group of students, some are likely to be smarter and quicker than others, while some just can’t keep up. It’s unfortunate that Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has turned out to be the slow kid in the class when it comes to economic sanctions and financial warfare. Almost…

Most readers have heard the phrase “jump the shark,” but not all are familiar with its origin. The phrase refers to an episode of the TV sitcom Happy Days, which ran on ABC from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. An episode aired on September 20, 1977, featured the cast on a trip to Hollywood where…

The damage from the intelligence leak regarding Ukrainian military capabilities (described in the article above) is already having real-world repercussions. Ukraine has long been planning a massive “spring offensive” to begin this month or next in Eastern Ukraine. It’s designed to break through Russian defensive positions and push them back toward Russia itself. This offensive…

The United States is struggling with the largest and potentially most damaging intelligence leak since the Wikileaks dump of thousands of sensitive government documents in 2013. The basic details of this leak are described here. A 21-year-old Air National Guardsman has been arrested for posting highly classified military documents about the War in Ukraine on the…