Dear Reader, Ever heard of Allan Lichtman? He created ‘The Keys to the White House’ model, which uses 13 True/False criteria to predict whether the candidate of an incumbent party will win or lose the next US presidential election. Below, Jim Rickards applies the model to Trump as he seeks to reclaim the White House […]
By Jim Rickards,
Dear Reader, In the past 29 years, from late 1991 to early 2020 prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the US suffered two recessions beginning in 2001 and 2007. During that same period, Australia had a grand total of zero recessions. None, nein, nada. Australia had a recession that ended in late 1991. Then it went […]
By Jim Rickards,
Dear Reader, In 2016, Jim Rickards accurately predicted that Donald Trump would win the White House. At the time, his prediction was in stark contrast to what the polls were saying…or was it? In today’s Daily Reckoning Australia, Jim explains how he beat the polls back in 2016, and why he’s confident he’ll beat them […]
By Jim Rickards,
Dear Reader, With Election Day inching closer, all eyes are on the polls. However, it’s important to note that election polling in the US is badly skewed for a number of different reasons, which Jim Rickards outlines in today’s DR. With that in mind, you shouldn’t take the polls as gospel. In fact, in a […]
By Jim Rickards,
Dear Reader, It goes without saying that this year’s US presidential election will be…different. Perhaps you’re sick of the coverage already. That’s understandable. But as an investor, you can’t ignore the impact of US politics on stock markets worldwide, says Jim Rickards in today’s Daily Reckoning Australia. So, over a series of editions, Jim will […]
By Jim Rickards,
Dear Reader, Change creates winners and losers. And there’s no doubt the pandemic has brought about a profound level of change. In today’s edition of the Daily Reckoning Australia, Jim highlights a change you may have overlooked. That is, the new urban ‘out-migration’ taking place across the US. As Jim says, this isn’t just a […]
By Jim Rickards,
Dear Reader, …Try, try again! It seems no one is taking that instruction more seriously right now than the US Federal Reserve, which, as Jim Rickards explains below, is desperate to get inflation. Read all about the Fed’s latest plan below, along with another, far more sinister plan from the powers that be that could […]
By Jim Rickards,
Dear Reader, That’s the focus of today’s edition of The Daily Reckoning Australia. The Middle Kingdom may be flexing its muscle on the international stage, but internally things look very different. In fact, as Jim Rickards explains below, China is more vulnerable than you might think — particularly as political infighting continues to intensify. But […]
By Jim Rickards,
Dear Reader, The four most expensive words in history are said to be ‘it’s different this time’. Normally those words are used to justify some sort of insane price rise in an asset class. In other words, people trot out those four words when a bubble is forming, and the high prices have decoupled from […]
By Jim Rickards,
Dear Reader, The Federal Reserve Bank did the unthinkable back in April. It unleashed US$3 trillion onto the financial system in less than three months. However, as Jim points out today, think of that money as a mere bridging loan for the US. Unemployment data is expected to rise for the US as of September […]
By Jim Rickards,
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