Posts by James G. Rickards

We’ve all just lived through a three-year nightmare of forced COVID gene therapy injections, useless masks, lockdowns that destroyed the economy, and social distancing that serves no purpose. The SARS-CoV-2 virus (which causes COVID) is airborne and respiratory. It goes where it wants. Masks are useless because the virus is far smaller than the mask’s…

The initial shock of the Biden classified documents scandal has worn off, but the scandal itself is still going strong. It began with the “discovery” of classified documents illegally removed from government offices by Biden before he left office as vice president in January 2017. These documents were discovered in the Penn Biden Center (a…

We all remember the Russia collusion hoax. It started when Hillary Clinton was accused of keeping classified information on a homemade server in her bathroom in Chappaqua, New York. She was Secretary of State at the time and an emerging candidate for president. The “bathtub server” was easily hacked by the Chinese, Russians, and Iranians.…

Jim Rickards warns about a huge crisis ahead. He says that what we’ve seen this year is just the beginning. Let’s buckle up, because supply chains are broken all over the world, inflation is through the roof, and the economy is not looking good.

Most of the articles we highlight in this publication are of roughly uniform length. Some are much longer than usual because they take an in-depth look at a critical issue for investors than cannot be handled in, say, 1,000 words. Yet, other articles are quite short. We have great admiration for writers who can make…

We’ve seen endless stories about how Russia, China, Iran and other major rivals of the U.S. are working to reduce dollar reserves and invent new forms of currency for international payments. In that context, this article comes as a bit of a surprise. Bloomberg reports that at a recent meeting of Southeast Asian officials and experts hosted…

This article is a good overview of what has been happening in the gold market lately and offers a comparison of gold and Bitcoin in terms of which is actually a better store of wealth. It makes reference to the coordinated actions of Russia and China (discussed in the article above) and puts that coordination in a…

China’s State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) announced on January 7, 2023, that China had added 30 metric tonnes to its official gold reserves in December 2022. This announcement came on top of a prior announcement that China added 32 metric tonnes in November 2022. That’s a 62 metric tonne increase in just the past…

You’ve heard a lot about the scandal of Joe Biden’s mishandling of classified documents recently. So far, classified documents have been found in Biden’s think tank office, the Penn Biden Center, in his garage, in his residence in Delaware, and in other locations. Unfortunately, you’re going to hear a lot more in the months ahead.…

Jim Rickards warns about a crisis of an unprecedented magnitude that we are uncomfortably close to.