First published 2016
Financial expert James Rickards warns that international monetary agencies have been quietly alerting finance ministers, banks, and private equity funds about an approaching worldwide economic meltdown. The author argues that global elites have developed a calculated strategy to shield themselves when crisis strikes. They plan to stockpile hard assets while ordinary citizens face closed stock exchanges, shuttered ATMs, frozen money market funds, and restricted cash access. Rickards draws on behavioral economics, historical analysis, and complexity theory to reveal how governments coordinate against their own populations. The book details specific policy failures, including the decision not to prosecute major banks like J.P. Morgan and the injection of four trillion dollars in easy credit that pushes the economy toward disaster. Rickards provides readers with analytical tools to understand these risks and protect their wealth before the system locks down.
Genres: business, economics, non-fiction, finance
Vibes: suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: investigative-journalism
352 pages · Hardcover · Portfolio