Topics Include:*The most important event of 2019 and how it will impact the future*Why the surge in repo rates from Q4 last year was the beginning of QE4*Why the Fed is now backed into a corner*How Fed tools may now be less effective*Forecast of US Presidential Election for 2020*War on Cash*Fintech/Blockchain disrupting traditional financial business models*Central Bank Digital Currencies*Facebook's upcoming payments system Libra
Jim Rickards is a lawyer, investment banker and economist with over thirty years' experience in capital markets. He is currently Chief Global Strategist at Meraglim. 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 Aftermath: Seven Secrets of Wealth Preservation in the Coming Chaos.