Jim Rickards
Editor of Strategic Intelligence, Strategic Intelligence Pro, Situation Report
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.
Jim’s past clients have included institutional investors and government directorates. He has conducted briefings for the board of directors at Morgan Stanley, the US 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.
Jim 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 Pentagon’s first-ever financial war games.
He was a member of the Advisory Board of the Center on Sanctions & Illicit Finance and has testified before the US House of Representatives about the 2008 financial crisis.
His work is regularly featured in the Financial Times, Evening Standard, The New York Times, The Telegraph, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. Plus he’s frequently a guest on the BBC, RTE Irish National Radio, CNN, NPR, CSPAN, CNBC, Bloomberg, and Fox Business.
Jim is a visiting lecturer at Northwestern School of Advanced International Studies, the US Army War College, and has delivered papers on risk at Singularity University, the Applied Physics Laboratory, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
He’s written numerous articles on risk management and 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.
Jim is the author of The New Case for Gold (2016), MoneyGPT – AI and the Threat to the Global Economy (2024), 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).
In all, Jim 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 Jim 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 Fed sponsored bankruptcy procedures in 1998
That experience – coupled with his experiences as a teenager – led him to realise 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 people the tools they need to benefit from them.
