How A Russian Debt Default Impacts Major Currencies

By Jim RickardsPosted March 16, 2022

The world has a densely connected and complex financial system. It’s impossible to completely isolate any part of world trade and finance without affecting other parts, including using financial sanctions. With a looming Russia debt default, how are global currencies impacted, particularly the U.S. dollar? Jim discusses in his latest war room briefing.

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James G. Rickards is the editor of Strategic Intelligence, Crash Speculator, Gold Speculator and Tactical Currency Profits. An Ex-CIA insider, he is also an American lawyer, economist, government advisor and investment banker with 40 years of experience working in capital markets on Wall Street. He was the principal negotiator of the...

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The Looming Day of Reckoning For The Yen

By Jim RickardsPosted April 27, 2022

There is a list of serious issues confronting Japan which offers a partial explanation for the striking weakness in the yen of late. Still, there may be another factor of even greater enormity that is being entirely overlooked which could spell a day of reckoning for both Japan and its currency. Jim discusses in his latest war room briefing.

What Are Recent Exchange Rate Moves Telling Us?

By Jim RickardsPosted January 19, 2022

It may be too early to declare the death of King Dollar, but it's not too early to look for the signs. Strong indications point to a weaker dollar trend as most foreign exchange rates have moved higher recently. With the U.S. economy slowing from here, a weakened dollar will create opportunities in long positions of major global reserve currencies that we monitor in the foreign exchange markets.

Rickards’ Currency Briefing: A New Liquidity Crisis Means A Flight To Safety

By Jim RickardsPosted August 4, 2021

A global liquidity crisis may emerge as early as this October, which will strengthen the dollar (and gold) to a global rush to safety. Only when that disruption becomes acute and the strong dollar becomes painful for U.S. exports and export-related jobs will the U.S. Treasury take steps to weaken the dollar.

Rickards’ Currency Briefing: Currency Wars Are Back

By Jim RickardsPosted June 23, 2021

In his inaugural currency briefing, Jim details why the prospect of currency wars, interest rates wars and a reversal of inflationary expectations will make for volatile foreign exchange markets. And that’s where our C.O.B.R.A. system can make profits for you as the fighting has once more begun in the current eleven-year currency war.

Currency Briefing: A Weaker Dollar Is Getting Closer By The Day

By Jim RickardsPosted December 8, 2021

The U.S. dollar continues to gain strength against all other currencies in the market. But will this trend continue? There are factors playing out that could result in a weaker dollar and strength in euros, yen, and sterling. Jim gives insight on deeper market realities rather than market narratives that shows this turning point is getting closer by the day.

Don’t Let Dollar “Strength” Deceive You

By Jim RickardsPosted May 11, 2022

Dollar strength is not the best description of the rise in DXY. The index should properly be viewed as a measure of weakness in major trading partners of the U.S. The more accurate analysis is to think of the dollar as standing still (as indicated by the dollar price of gold) while major currencies crash all around it.