Outlook 2021: Jim Rickards on Gold and the Fed

Best-selling author Jim Rickards talks about a great escape from the U.S. dollar in 2021 and a massive influx of money that will flow into gold and bitcoin. "People are getting in gold and bitcoin because they want to get out of the dollar," the Currency Wars author tells our Daniela Cambone as part of the Outlook series. Rickards also talks his new book, The Great New Depression, and how the first quarter of 2021 will be marked with a recession.

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. His latest book is The New Great Depression: Winners and Losers in a Post-Pandemic World.