Jim Rickards

Jim Rickards is an expert on the global monetary system, helping you understand how policies shape the markets… and impact your wallet.

In 2016, he predicted Donald Trump’s election victory as well as Britain’s exit from the European Union. In 2020, he warned that COVID protocols would lead to a global economic meltdown that wouldn’t be apparent for years. In 2022, his analysis proved true.

James’ clients include institutional investors and government directorates. He has conducted briefings for the board of directors at Morgan Stanley, the U.S. Treasury Department and Fidelity Research and Management, among many others.

The CIA once tasked him with figuring out if monitoring markets could help predict terrorist attacks. James and his colleagues eventually created a new branch of geopolitical analysis called MARKINT, which stands for “market intelligence.”

In addition, he served as a facilitator of the first-ever financial war games conducted by The Pentagon. He was a member of the Advisory Board of the Center on Sanctions & Illicit Finance and has testified before the U.S. House of Representatives about the 2008 financial crisis. He is also Director of The James Rickards Project, an inquiry into the complex dynamics of geopolitics and global capital.

His work is regularly featured in the Financial Times, Evening Standard, The New York Times, The Telegraph, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and he is frequently a guest on the BBC, RTE Irish National Radio, CNN, NPR, CSPAN, CNBC, Bloomberg, and Fox Business.

James is a visiting lecturer at Northwestern School of Advanced International Studies, the U.S. Army War College and has delivered papers on risk at Singularity University, the Applied Physics Laboratory and the Los Alamos National Laboratory as well as written numerous articles on risk management. He also has lectured at many universities, including Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Texas A&M University, Trinity College Dublin, The Kellogg School at Northwestern University and Georgetown University.

Rickards is the author of The New Case for Gold (2016) and six New York Times bestsellers: Currency Wars (2011), The Death of Money (2014), The Road to Ruin (2016), Aftermath (2019), The New Great Depression (2021), and Sold Out (2022). His latest book, MoneyGPT - AI and the Threat to the Global Economy, will be published in November, 2024.

In all, James has over 40 years of experience as an American lawyer, economist, government advisor, investment banker, speaker and author.

As a teenager, his father declared bankruptcy, which uprooted his entire family to a small fishing village. But James was determined to overcome the setback. He went on to earn a masters degree in international economics from Johns Hopkins University, a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a law degree in taxation from New York University.

He’s worked for Citibank, Caxton Associates and Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM), where he became the principal negotiator of LTCM’s bankruptcy procedures sponsored by the Federal Reserve in 1998

That experience — coupled with his experiences as a teenager — led him to realize that people are often at the mercy of financial forces they don’t understand. So he made it his mission to explain complex issues in simple terms… then give you the tools you need to benefit from them.