Jim Rickards Blog

In January 2018, two significant market events occurred nearly simultaneously. Major U.S. stock market indexes peaked and volatility indexes...

China dredged sand surrounding useless rocks and atolls in the South China Sea and converted them into artificial islands and then built out...

The mainstream media narrative about the U.S.-China trade war implies that Trump is on a highly damaging ego trip and China holds all the ca...

The problem from an investor’s perspective is they are “slow burn” crises and can linger for a long time before producing anything dramatic ...

I’m continually amazed at the legions of politicos, pundits and so-called “experts” who don’t understand President Trump or how he conducts ...

"When we consider recent financial catastrophes affecting U.S. investors only, without regard to other types of disaster, we have had m...

One of the long-standing reasons to own physical gold or invest in gold mining shares is to hedge geopolitical risk or the risk of natural d...

This will not involve dead-end cryptocurrencies like bitcoin but entirely new utility tokens and cryptos. Imagine something like a putincoin...

America’s most powerful weapon of war does not shoot, fly or explode. It’s not a submarine, plane, tank or laser. America’s most powerful st...

The problem is that regulators are like generals fighting the last war. In 2008, the global financial crisis started in the U.S. mortgage ma...

So many credit crises are brewing, it’s hard to keep track without a scorecard. The mother of all credit crises is coming to China with over...

It's not that the price is different, per se. When gold crashed on Monday, dragging market prices down to a low of $1321.50 an ounce fro...