Jim Rickards: Update on trade tensions, gold, Ukraine, Fed monetary policy, interest rates

Topics Include:

*Implications of the USMCA between the US, Canada, and Mexico*The importance of Robert Lighthizer's role in US trade negotiations*Update on tensions between Russia and Ukraine*Russia's "buffer states" of outlying countries*How Russia's gas pipelines running through Ukraine are critical infrastructure*Why Russia purchasing close to 30 tons of gold per month is a strategic move*How a decentralized permissioned ledger cryptocurrency sponsored by Russia and or China and settled in physical gold could be the next system used by sovereigns to settle net trade balances without using the US dollar*Why Switzerland could be an ideal location to settle net payments in gold*Update on Saudi Arabia stability, succession, and world relations*Thoughts on the G20 upcoming meetings and trade negotiations*Update on Fed monetary policy and interest rates

Jim Rickards is a lawyer, investment banker and economist with over thirty years' experience in capital markets. He is currently Senior Managing Director at Tangent Capital Partners LLC. He advises the Department of Defense, the U.S. intelligence community, and major hedge funds on global finance, and served as a facilitator of the first ever financial war games conducted by the Pentagon. A frequent guest on financial news programs, Rickards is also the author of The New York Times bestselling novels Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis and The Death of Money, as well as The New Case for Gold (2016) and The Road To Ruin: The Global Elites' Secret Plan for the Next Financial Crisis (2016).