Dear Reader, No one in their wildest dreams could’ve imagined that 2020 would turn out like this. Every single person on the planet has been affected — in some direct or indirect way — by COVID-19. But the pandemic itself isn’t the only destructive force we’ve had to deal with. Economic devastation and social unrest […]
China Is Fragile…but so Is the US
Dear Reader, The globalist dream for China has ‘crashed and burned’, says Jim Rickards in today’s Daily Reckoning Australia, as the US and other Western nations turn their backs on the communist country. The US may have washed its hands of China, but that doesn’t mean the situation at home is any better. In fact, […]
The Stories We Tell Ourselves Drive the Stock Market
Dear Reader, ‘If the stock market does not reflect the economy, what does it reflect?’ That’s the question Jim Rickards seeks to answer in today’s edition of The Daily Reckoning Australia. In short, it all comes down to the power of storytelling. Read on to find out more… Cheers, Shae Russell, Editor, The Daily Reckoning […]
Investors in Chinese Stocks Will Be Collateral Damage
Dear Reader, There’s no love lost between the US and China…but is it possible for their relationship to deteriorate even further? It seems the answer is yes. In addition to continual confrontation on trade, tariffs, theft of intellectual property, currency manipulation, and human rights, the two countries are finding new ways to strike at each […]
China Continues to Show its True Colours: They Can’t Be Trusted
Dear Reader, As China continues to show its true colours, the world continues to grapple with the revelation that the world’s next superpower isn’t playing by the rules. At least, not the rules as we know them. Below, Jim Rickards reveals just a few of the ways in which China is wreaking havoc around the […]
Economy Won’t Recover until 2023
Dear Reader, ‘There’s been six coronaviruses in the past couple of decades, and not one of them has had a vaccine,’ Jim told me in an interview last week. There are 27 human trials underway for a possible vaccine at the moment. Six of those are in the final ‘phase three’. Yet a result from […]
Time to Get Out of Dodge: Migration to the Suburbs
Dear Reader, Has it dawned on you yet that we aren’t getting back to normal? After an exclusive one-on-one chat with Jim Rickards at the Sprott Natural Resource Symposium last week, Jim was keen to point out that this a ‘multi-generational event’. Saying the effects of the pandemic are likely to have a five-year impact […]
China Is Really Rocking the Boat
Dear Reader, This time last year, I was strolling up and down the halls of the Fairmont Hotel in Vancouver. The Sprott Natural Resources Symposium was mere hours away from kicking off. As a guest of Rick Rule, I’d scored an all-access pass to the speeches, workshops, and private functions. It was a blur of […]
The Growing Threat of Thought Control
Dear Reader, There are many lessons to be learned in the wake of COVID-19. Some lessons will be more expensive — and certainly more painful — than others. In today’s edition of The Daily Reckoning Australia, Jim Rickards highlights some of the lessons we can learn — not only in a financial and economic sense […]
Don’t Be Fooled by the Current Stock Rally
Dear Reader, Companies worldwide are struggling to navigate these strange and unprecedented times, yet the stock market is rallying. Even companies on the brink of bankruptcy have seen surges in their share prices recently. The question is: Is the mania over yet? Well, to borrow a famous phrase from 1920s entertainer Al Jolson — which […]
