What Jim Rickards is saying
Author and macro commentator
3 dated public stances tracked since 2024-12-25, most recently 2026-08-13. Each line carries the date and the venue it came from; quotation marks mean verbatim. Methodology.
The stances below are c8alpha's editorial distillation of Jim Rickards's public commentary — television, podcasts, and interviews — compiled by automated transcript analysis and dated to the episode they came from. They may lag the speaker's current view and may contain extraction errors. Text in quotation marks is verbatim from the episode; everything else is our paraphrase. Jim Rickards is not affiliated with c8alpha and has not endorsed this page. Nothing here is investment advice.
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2026-08-13
GOLD
owns
Julia La Roche Show · video
Rickards holds gold mining positions because global output is plateauing — finding high-grade ore is increasingly difficult and expensive — so supply will remain inelastic even as the gold price rises, creating asymmetric upside for producers.
“I invest in some gold mines and I talked to people in the industry — it is getting more difficult”
Jim Rickards: The Iran Bet Trump Is Losing, Case for $10K Gold, & The Trade That Could Break Markets
2026-08-13
JPY (JAPANESE YEN)
bearish
Julia La Roche Show · video
The US Treasury's dollar/euro swap-line rescue of the yen will fail just as every past currency intervention has failed, the yen will weaken further as Japan is forced to sell US Treasuries to source dollars for energy imports, and 2027 will be particularly…
“The yen to get much lower, US interest rates to go higher — 2027 is going to be really messy”
Jim Rickards: The Iran Bet Trump Is Losing, Case for $10K Gold, & The Trade That Could Break Markets
2024-12-25
GOLD
bullish
Wealthion · video
Central banks and sovereign finance ministers are losing confidence in all four major Western government bond markets (US, Japan, Germany, Italy) because the US is weaponizing the dollar by seizing Russian reserve assets, leaving gold as the only liquid…
“you're going to buy gold and that's part of what's driving the price of gold higher”
90d +14.6% · 180d +28.0% · 1y +71.4%
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