James Rickards is the Editor ofย Strategic Intelligenceย a financial newsletter. He is the New York Times bestselling author of MoneyGPT (2024), Sold Out (2022), The New Great Depression (2021), Aftermath (2019), The Road to Ruin (2016), The New Case for Gold (2016), The Death of Money (2014), and Currency Wars (2011) from Penguin Random House.
He is an investment advisor, lawyer, inventor, and economist, and has held senior positions at Citibank, Long-Term Capital Management, and Caxton Associates. In 1998, he was the principal negotiator of the rescue of LTCM sponsored by the Federal Reserve. His clients include institutional investors and government directorates. He is an op-ed contributor to theย Financial Times,ย Evening Standard,ย The Telegraph,ย New York Times, andย Washington Post.ย
Mr. Rickards is a guest lecturer in globalization and finance at The Johns Hopkins University, Georgetown University, Trinity College Dublin, the U.S. Army War College, the National Defense University, and the School of Advanced International Studies. He has presented papers on risk at the Applied Physics Laboratory, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.ย
He is an advisor on capital markets to the U.S. intelligence community, and the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and is a board member of the Florida Institute for National Security. Mr. Rickards holds an LL.M. (Taxation) from the NYU School of Law; a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School; an M.A. in international economics from SAIS, and a B.A. (with honors) from Johns Hopkins. He lives in New Hampshire.
NEWSLETTER

TOP VIDEO INTERVIEWS
WEBSITE

LINKS
Books
Rickards subsequently authored another six books:
- The Death of Money: The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary System (2014)
- The Big Drop: How To Grow Your Wealth During the Coming Collapse (2015)
- The New Case for Gold (2016)
- The Road to Ruin: The Global Elites’ Secret Plan for the Next Financial Crisis (2016)
- Aftermath: Seven Secrets of Wealth Preservation in the Coming Chaos (2019)
- The New Great Depression: Winners and Losers in a Post-Pandemic World (2021)
- Sold Out: How Broken Supply Chains, Surging Inflation, and Political Instability Will Sink the Global Economy (2022)
CURRENCY WARS
Join Forces With Jim Todayโฆand Heโll Send You a FREE Copy of His Bestseller Currency Wars!



