In today’s Daily Reckoning Australia, Jim Rickards begins a series of four articles relating to the spread and curve of market signals, how to interpret them, and the relationship between past and future predictions. Read on to find out more…
The Future of Money
In today’s Daily Reckoning Australia, Jim concludes this series of articles on currency and the evolution thereof by again warning readers of the dangers of digital currency — this time in relation to economic bubbles. Keep reading to find out more…
The Movement of Money
In today’s Daily Reckoning Australia, Jim circles back to CBDCs, the different forms money can take, and whether or not this evolution is in the best interest of the investor. To find out more, keep reading…
The Money That Wasn’t Money
In today’s Daily Reckoning Australia, Jim does a deep dive into bitcoin, the value placed upon digital currencies, and explores Canadian Philosopher Marshall McLuhan’s thesis on the subject. Keep reading to find out more…
Gold, Gold, Gold
Gold may seem like a strange choice for inclusion in a series of articles on the future of money. Observers are well aware that gold has served as money — usually the best form of money — for more than 3,000 years of civilisation and perhaps longer.
CBDCs versus Crypto: A New Phase of ‘Money Wars’
The digital currency medium has a global impact that can be a force for unification but can also be a source of obsessive behaviour, greed, dysfunction, and social disruption. In that sense, cryptocurrencies can undermine confidence in existing currency systems even without displacing them.
China Never Learns and Why We need to Remove Biden NOW
No one wakes up in the morning and says, ‘What a nice day for a nuclear war. Let’s launch some missiles’. That’s not how a nuclear war will happen if it ever does. Instead, experts who have studied the subject of nuclear war fighting since the 1950s (and I’ve personally studied their work since the late 1960s) all agree that the danger is not an out-of-the-blue decision to launch. The danger is escalation.
Supply Chain Disruption and the Hidden Realities behind Inflation
Although the war began in February, supply chain disruption is hitting home now, as are many other knock-on effects from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Another Crisis Resulting from Ukraine
Trade and financial sanctions are a double-edged sword. It’s possible to cut off Russia from imports of needed goods and services. It is also possible to exclude Russia from financial systems and payment channels. But trade and finance are a two-way street.
Welcome to 1984
I’ve been addressing the war on cash lately, and for good reason. While everyone’s attention is focused on the war in Ukraine, inflation, and the Supreme Court, government plans to eliminate cash are accelerating.
