Audio interview with James Rickards

November 2014 Interview with Jim Rickards topics:

  • Comments on the gold price
  • The time horizon for the next international monetary crisis
  • Fundamentals and math for the gold market has not changed
  • Depressions are structural, not cyclical
  • Jim comments on his article “In the year 2024”
  • Bail-Ins to be announced post G20 Australia
  • The world is on a shadow gold standard and moving towards a more formal one
  • Jim’s views on gold mining company stocks
  • 2% Inflation cuts the value of the dollar in half every 35 yrs
  • Will quantitative easing lift the US out of depression when it didn’t work in Japan
  • The Fed must change the psychology in order to get velocity of money
  • No interest rate increases in 2015
  • QE4 by end of 2015 possibly 2016
  • Bank of Japan printing effect on US stock market
  • Zero Interest rates has created an environment of regime uncertainty
  • How Jim evaluates gold storage companies and jurisdictions
  • Switzerland is the top gold storage jurisdiction in every dimension
  • November 30th Swiss Gold Initiative Referendum
  • Swiss / Euro Peg
  • The Fed is leveraged 80 to 1, IMF leveraged 3 to 1
  • Can the Fed collapse, and will the IMF bail out the Fed
  • Lagarde: US has until Dec 31st to meet its obligations

Audio interview with James Rickards