Jim Rickards weighs in on the Fed, trade war, & gold

*This interview was recorded on 12/19/18

Jim Rickards, author of The Road to Ruin, joins Remy Blaire at the NASDAQ MarketSite following the December FOMC rate announcement to discuss the trajectory of the Federal Reserve. Rickards weighs in on the U.S.-China trade war and the fundamental outlook for the global investment landscape.

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 The New Case for Gold (2016) and The Road To Ruin: The Global Elites' Secret Plan for the Next Financial Crisis (2016).