James Rickards

“If an economy has a stagnant labor force operating at a constant level of productivity, it will have constant output but no…

— James Rickards

“The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis came well before the current age of AI, yet computers were in use and technology played a…

— James Rickards

“It is one thing when prices drift downward over time due to innovation, scalability or other efficiencies. This might be considered “good”…

— James Rickards

“A country running deficits under the gold exchange standard could find itself like a tenant whose landlord does not collect rent payments…

— James Rickards

“This ... he largest financial bailout in history ... was not just a bailout of SVB [Silicon Valley Bank]. It was a…

— James Rickards

Derivatives serve practically no purpose except to enrich bankers through opaque pricing and to deceive investors through off-the-balance-sheet accounting.

— James Rickards

“Printing dollars at home means higher inflation in China, higher food prices in Egypt and stock bubbles in Brazil. Printing money means…

— James Rickards

What does reflect reality very well is complexity theory, which comes from physics. I'm the one pioneering the idea of bringing it…

— James Rickards

“On the whole, it is difficult to think of another government agency that has failed more consistently on more of its key…

— James Rickards

“Elite support for so-called free trade is due to the fact that elites share a global perspective at odds with the best…

— James Rickards

“The irony is that when you set out to remove bias you use your own possibly unconscious biases in deciding what's harmful…

— James Rickards

“The solutions to this systemic risk overhang are surprisingly straightforward. The immediate tasks would be to break up large banks and ban…

— James Rickards

“Policy makers respond to economic distress by pursuing polices designed to improve the data. After a while, the data themselves may come…

— James Rickards

When you own gold you're fighting every central bank in the world. That's because gold is a currency that competes with government…

— James Rickards

The problem right now is that central banks have not normalized their balance sheet since 2009. They're trying, but it's not even…

— James Rickards

“America has, in fact, run trade deficits large enough to wipe out its gold hoard under the old rules of the game.…

— James Rickards

“Silber, the real reason the exchange was shut, and the reason the U.S. Treasury was involved, was not stock prices but gold.…

— James Rickards

“The Soviets had ... built an early warning radar system with computer linkages using a primitive kind of AI code-named Oko. On…

— James Rickards

“Regulators and bankers were using the wrong tools and the wrong metrics. Unfortunately, they still are.”

— James Rickards

“University biologists working with infectious viruses have airtight facilities to ensure that the objects of their study do not escape from the…

— James Rickards

A gold standard is the ideal monetary system for those who create wealth through ingenuity, entrepreneurship, and hard work. Gold standards are…

— James Rickards

“There is hardly a part of the United States where men are not aware that secret private purposes and interests have been…

— James Rickards

“Hyperinflation produces fairly predictable sets of winners and losers and prompts certain behaviors and therefore can be used politically to rearrange social…

— James Rickards