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James Rickards is the Editor of Strategic Intelligence, a financial newsletter, and Director of The James Rickards Project, an inquiry into the complex dynamics of geopolitics + global capital. He is the author of Wall Street Journal and national bestseller, Aftermath (2019), three New York Times best sellers, The Road to Ruin (2016), The Death of Money (2014), and Currency Wars (2011), and national best seller, The New Case for Gold (2016), all from Penguin Random House. He is an investment advisor, lawyer, and economist, and has held senior positions at Citibank, Long-Term Capital Management, and Caxton Associates. In 1998, he was the principal negotiator of the rescue of LTCM sponsored by the Federal Reserve. His clients include institutional investors and government directorates. He is an Op-Ed contributor to the Financial Times, Evening Standard, The Telegraph, New York Times, and Washington Post, and has been interviewed on BBC, CNN, NPR, C-SPAN, CNBC, Bloomberg, Fox, and The Wall Street Journal. Mr. Rickards is a guest lecturer in globalization and finance at The Johns Hopkins University, Georgetown University, The Kellogg School at Northwestern, the U.S. Army War College and the School of Advanced International Studies. He has delivered papers on risk at Singularity University, the Applied Physics Laboratory, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He is an advisor on capital markets to the U.S. intelligence community, and the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and is on the Advisory Board of the Center on Economic and Financial Power in Washington DC. Mr. Rickards holds an LL.M. (Taxation) from the NYU School of Law; a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School; an M.A. in international economics from SAIS, and a B.A. (with honors) from Johns Hopkins. He lives in New Hampshire.

Jim Rickards: All Roads Lead to the IMF; SDRs to Replace Dollar as New World Currency

Jim Rickards explains how global leaders are attempting to solve current financial and economic problems by inflating away debt, keeping interest rates low, and moving global monetary policy over to the IMF with SDRs as the next global reserve currency.

Jim Rickards on the Death of Money, China, and Financial Warfare

The international monetary system has collapsed three times in the past 100 years: in 1914, in 1939, and in 1971. Each collapse was followed by a period of turmoil: wars, civil unrest, or significant damage to the stability of the global economy. The next financial collapse will resemble nothing we've seen in history.

A Currency War Simulation

In this video, Jim Rickards offers a play-by-play war game simulation involving China's use of derivatives in securing large amounts of gold, a collapse of the euro, and a move by Iran to close the Strait of Hormuz.

The Problem with the Fed’s Zero Rate Policy

The principal victims of the Fed’s policies are those at or near retirement who face a Hobson’s Choice of gambling in the stock market or getting nothing at all. A summary of these deleterious effects on retirement income security, explained in more detail below, includes the following:

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