Jim Rickards Blog

Investors can be forgiven for thinking they hit the trifecta last Friday. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that unemployment had...

James Rickards forecasts a grim future in which he sees both China and the United States entering into a full out currency war. Perhaps t...

Bitcoin got hammered yesterday after New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced an investigation into some of the major cryptoc...

We’re all familiar with the so-called “run on the bank.” It usually begins quietly with just a few depositors getting nervous about the ...

In his latest book, "The New Case for Gold," fund manager, geopolitical analyst, and financial letter writer James G. Rickards ...

Could the next financial crisis be just around the corner? The signs of a looming meltdown are ‘unmistakable,’ this according to best-sel...

“We don’t know what we’re doing.” That’s what one Fed governor recently told investor and bestselling author Jim Rickards at a small priv...

In my 2011 book, Currency Wars, I gave a detailed description of the first-ever financial war game sponsored by the Department of Defens...

One of the most famous passages in American literature occurs in Chapter 13 of Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises. It takes place in a ca...

All financial crises are the same and different at the same time. They are the same when it comes to the dynamics of contagion, illiquidit...

There are four major factors driving the market. The factors are growth, trade wars, geopolitics and regulation of technology. Each of the...

President Trump has ratcheted up his war of words against Amazon. Late last week, Trump tweeted that Amazon is having a negative impact ...