James G. Rickards is an American lawyer, economist, and investment banker. He is a regular commentator on finance, and is the author of The New York Times bestseller Currency Wars:

I had the honor of speaking with James ( Jim ) Rickards today, please listen to what he has to say. Please take
this information very serious.
Jim can be reached at james.rickards@gmail.com  office 703-790-0612  ext 106   or cell 203-858-5543

http://pro.moneymappress.com/MMRBSSH39/LMMRQ878/?ad=3&h=true  click link it's about 25 minutes  PLEASE LISTEN

This is the best overview of American and international economic conditions and projected results I’ve seen.  Jim Rickards tells you about banks v credit unions (and his book tells you the best ones to put your m oney in)... he answers a lot of the questions , does it extremely well . He identifies the importance of SDRs – special drawing rights – that allows the IMF to print/create its own money and become the most powerful financial institution on earth.  This is a very powerful video.  You won’t get bored.

James G. Rickards is an American lawyer, economist, and investment banker. He is a regular commentator on finance, and is the author of The New York Times bestseller Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis, published in 2011, and The Death of Money: The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary System, published in 2014.

Rickards graduated from Cape May High School in Cape May, New Jersey in 1969.^[1] He graduated from The Johns Hopkins University in 1973 with a B.A. degree with honors and in 1974, from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. with an M.A.^[2] in international economics. He received his Juris Doctor from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and an LL.M in taxation from New York University School of Law.^[3]

In 1981, Rickards was involved in the Iran hostage crisis.^[4] As general counsel for the hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM),^[5][6] he was the principal negotiator in the 1998 bailout of LTCM^[7] by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Rickards worked on Wall Street for 35 years.^[8] In 2001, he began using his financial expertise to aid the U.S. national security community and the U.S. Department of Defense.^[9]

Rickards is now the senior managing director for market intelligence at Omnis, Inc.,^[7] a consulting firm.^[3] On March 24, 2009, Rickards presented his view at a symposium at Johns Hopkins, that the U.S. dollar is vulnerable to attack from foreign governments through accumulation of gold and establishment of a new global currency.^[10] The same week, Zhou Xiaochuan, governor of the People’s Bank of China, called for a new currency to be introduced and operated by the International Monetary Fund to replace the dollar as the basic unit of international commerce.^[10]

On September 10, 2009, Rickards testified before the U.S. House of Representatives about the risks of financial modeling, VaR, and the 2008 financial crisis.^[11]

On January 29, 2012, on Bob Brinker's radio program, Rickards stated his belief that the U.S. has been in a depression since 2007. He backed this assertion by pointing out the existence of a major component of previously seen U.S. depressions, the prolonged high rate of unemployment.

Rickards is a Senior Managing Director of Tangent Capital in New York,^[12] and lives in Darien, Connecticut, where he is on the Republican Town Committee.^[13]