Posts by James G. Rickards

I don’t use Alexa personally. (I once received one ordered by accident and I smashed it with a sledgehammer to make sure it was dead). But I know many who do and have been in households that actively use it. Most users seem to enjoy having Alexa do routine chores. “Alexa, turn on the outdoor…

Just when it seems the crime wave caused by illegal immigrants can’t get any worse, it does. Recent reports detail how the Biden-Harris administration shipped 20,000 Haitian immigrants to a small town in Ohio of only 60,000 residents. Almost overnight, the town’s population is 25% Haitian illegals. Haiti is the poorest country in the Western…

The polls in the battleground states are all within the margin of error. Harris is ahead in some, Trump in others, but the race is extremely tight and it’s far too soon to call a winner. There’s some good news for Trump coming from the fact that most of the polls have been rigged in…

We know there was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13. We know that the conduct of the Secret Service was so grossly negligent that they were practically participants in the assassination attempt. There was no response to numerous witnesses who saw the shooter casing the area, using a range…

The first presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump — and potentially the only debate — takes place in Philadelphia tonight, hosted by ABC News. There will be no live audience and neither candidate will release opening statements. Nor will either be allowed to ask questions of each other. Both of their microphones will…

As my longtime readers know, I’m a financial forecaster who prefers to focus on markets. But because politics can have such a large influence on markets, I can’t afford to ignore politics. So I’ll be focusing a lot on the November election in the next two months. Today we’ll be looking at the candidates’ platforms,…

There are two wars in Ukraine. The first is the real war, which the Russians are winning decisively and that will result in the complete destruction of Ukraine if the dictator Zelensky doesn’t come to his senses and seek a peace treaty with Russia. The second is the narrative war consisting of lies the western…

The U.S. and the EU have imposed numerous rounds of economic sanctions on Russia since the start of the Special Military Operation in Ukraine in February 2022. Russia was kicked out of the SWIFT international bank transfer message system. Exports of oil and natural gas were limited and subject to price caps. Insurance for shiploads…

In the September edition of Strategic Intelligence, I provided a detailed statistical study of why recent polls of the presidential race have been rigged in favor of Kamala Harris in a way designed to maintain a narrative that she is a young, energetic new kid on the block instead of just another tired old politician with…

In addition to notable successes, the U.S. intelligence community (IC) has had many analytic failures including the failure to see the Russian invasion of Afghanistan (1979), failure to detect the 9/11 attack (2001), and wrong assessments of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction (2001-2003). IC successes (many unknown) included finding Osama bin Laden (killed by Navy…