Posts by James G. Rickards

Jim Rickards breaks down the current state of the financial system and explains how if you place your money in a bank, it is no longer legally your money anymore. This could have dire consequences as we move forward and as the global financial systems around the globe begin to collapse. Is your money safe?…

We’ve written at length about the inevitable failure of China’s Zero Covid policy and the huge economic costs. China is determined to shut down the SARS-CoV-2 virus wherever it appears, even though that goal is impossible to achieve. It’s the equivalent of trying to eliminate the common cold. You can take all the extreme measures…

We’ve all been fed a steady stream of propaganda by Ukraine and the White House since the War in Ukraine began. Remember how the Ukrainian “volunteers” in camo holding automatic rifles all looked like Vogue fashion models? Turns out they were models, and the photos were all posed for propaganda purposes. Remember the videos of…

You’ve heard a lot about the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which transports natural gas from Russia to  Germany. It is completed and tested but has never been formally opened due to U.S. and EU sanctions on Russia resulting from the War in Ukraine. But, fewer people are familiar with the fact that there is already…

We’ve been following the war on cash for years and advising readers on elite efforts to eliminate cash. The idea is to make all payments digital and to force individuals into digital accounts that can be frozen, seized, or reduced by negative interest rates, tax withholdings, and other charges. In the more extreme version (already…

Multi-billionaire Mark Cuban is well-known as a serial entrepreneur (MicroSolutions, Broadcast.com, 2929 Entertainment), his ownership of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team, and his regular appearances on the ABC reality show Shark Tank. Less well-known until recently is Cuban’s infatuation with crypto-currencies and his belief that crypto is the wave of the future when it comes to…

One of my favorite T-shirts was worn by a television producer who worked on location filming commercials. Anyone who has been on a live TV shoot knows it can be one disaster after another. Cameras break, lights fail, teleprompters don’t work, the weather deteriorates, and so on. Stuff happens. Pros know this and just rise…

Almost everything you heard about the War in Ukraine from U.S. media over the course of March, April, and May was a lie. You heard that Putin was losing the war. You heard that Russians had poor training, low morale, and were deserting in droves. You heard that Ukrainians were destroying Russian armor in large…

This article is an interesting take on the similarities of the meltdown of hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM) in 1998, the meltdown of dotcom stocks in 2000, and the ongoing meltdown in crypto-currencies and the crypto infrastructure. For those too young to remember the LTCM disaster (or perhaps you’re not too young but just don’t want…