The following post is from this past December. I bring it back because of reactions and some extreme remarks coming from European elites concerning problems that the European Union is facing:
Many of the richest people on this earth will be reading this book because they know who James Rickards is.....and they know that he knows them....personally....along with their habits and the way they conduct business. If you read The Road To Ruin, the Global Elites' Secret Plan For The Next Financial Crisis you will see why I make this statement.
It's no coincidence that Rickards chose Revelation 6:5-6 to begin his newest book. Certainly he chose it because it depicts the third seal in Revelation... that of the rider on the black horse that brings famine to the earth.... for it is the author's contention that an "instantaneous decline" and "catastrophic collapse" is most likely in America's future. There are a number of biblical references throughout demonstrating that this secular author is familiar with the Bible but it is my belief that God not only led him to that verse but supplied the gift necessary to understand the inherent defects of capitalism when ruled by greed. .
Donald Trump was mentioned just once in The Road To Ruin! How could this be considering the subject matter of the book? The answer given is that Donald Trump, or any President of the United States, is but a pawn on the chessboard of the global elites; although it should be mentioned that a single pawn, many a time, was the decisive piece in a chess game. The author gives this description of what happens behind the scenes of world economies..."They (the elites) control global finance and, by extension, global politics, because politics are constrained by finance." This concept coincides with my own thoughts on the rise and success of Donald Trump. In a previous decade he might very well have been able to restore somewhat of America's 'greatness'... but coming as he is today....at the latter end on the scale of market collapses....he may instead only be the catalyst that forces the elites to bring about their end-game.
I'm forced to simplify the concepts in this book review because although I am not new to the general topic of world elites and their nefarious schemes, I am a novice in economics compared to the author and therefore limited myself to the major themes of the book. The descriptions may seem very short but if I were to write extensively on it you might then think that you have ingested the essence of the warnings given by James Rickards when you would not have. You would have had a...not only incomplete...but a feeble condensing of these very real and very serious events that must occur...in their proper time....which is in reality in God's proper time.
The most notable economists in power and influence from the past and today have used what are considered the accepted methods in the handling of market emergencies. According to James Rickards, and supported by other experts in these fields, these methods may have been somewhat successful in the past but each case added to the rotting of the foundation which makes the next crisis even more catastrophic. In short, there will be no fixes available the next time, and to make matters worse, according to the author, the elites will use this coming extraordinary emergency to implement their New World Order. Let me remind you that James Rickards is a highly regarded secular economics advisor....not a Bible scholar!
The market emergencies of 1998 and 2008 were caused by ignorance, greed and gross miscalculations by the well-known experts making the decisions. The overall problems for the world economy, as previously stated, intensified after each crisis. So where are we now? The adhesive is gone from the Band-Aids and there are none left in the first-aid kit anyway! The message given is clear...there is no getting out of this catastrophe that is ahead.
The author used an analogy of Ian Fleming's fictional SMERSH that was based on Stalin's Red Army counter-intelligence organization of the same name. He's pointing to actual organizations, the names of which we would be familiar, doing the bidding of the elites. Rickards warns... no... he predicts that money riots will occur in America as our financial system begins to unravel. You'll learn a lot about economics and money in general in this book that includes a very clearly written history on what has transpired in financial markets over the ages but particularly in the past century. The names of those in power who brought us to this precipice are given with no holds barred. Keynes is there along with a dozen other economists, and Woodrow Wilson is skewered along with a dozen other world leaders. If I can understand the complex issues as they are described then you will be able to also.
The author makes this statement...."Sovereigns don't go down without a fight. The response to money riots will be confiscation and brute force. Governing elites will be safe in their hollowed-out mountain command centers. Private elites will fend for themselves in their yachts, helicopters, and gated-communities, which will be converted to armed fortresses." Folks this is coming from a man who dines with the elites of this world and advises our intelligence community!!! He is warning that a "Neofascism will emerge (which is of the Left by the way)....with liberty lost." In support of this he references a 2008 book by Jonah Goldberg titled Liberal Fascism, a book that I hyped in these posts as much as I am doing here with The Road To Ruin. The author has deciphered the agenda of the elites of this world and details every step of that agenda under this outline...."world money, world taxation, and world order."
There was something in the historical context of all this that piqued my interest. Mr. Rickards named seven world orders up to this point...Rome....Charlemagne...the Holy Roman Empire....Westphalia...and the current United Nations, IMF and G-20 structure. Now that's five but he felt it necessary to include China and Islam in the mix. The eighth is what we are headed for. Friends...does that sound familiar? I had been meditating on and off over the years on the major economic systems and world orders we have had. James Rickards....as a professor would....gave precision and details to my own meditations, for it has been my contention for quite some time that this New World Order that the Bible describes would most likely need a catastrophe to precede it. James Rickards agrees and describes in his chapter titled Shock Doctrine a step-by-step process that could very well happen.
Most of the book details past economic crises, why they occurred, what was done to alleviate the situation, how each one contributed to growing the next final collapse, why we have missed the causes, and how through the use of Complexity Theory we can get a murky but usable picture of what is ahead. I know that this sounds daunting in scope but the information flows easily and the message is understandable.
Near the end of the book the author offers some specific investing advice if you are interested. He mentions gold and various other havens. As an aside...he recommends that 5% of your portfolio should be in fine art. I'm ahead of the game on this. I have a real wing-dinger painting hanging in my computer room. It shows a brown Lab sitting on a dock overlooking a small lake at nighttime...and there are little LED lights giving it a beautiful glow. In reality the closest I'll ever get to fine art is if I buy a painting by a fellow named Fine, but the author does give advice that most of us can take advantage of.
In his conclusion to The Road To Ruin, James Rickards describes an informal debate that he took part in at a theater in New York City. There were four debaters...two teams of two experts. The topic to be debated was whether America would 'ascend' in the future or 'decline.' The author and his partner argued for the latter with what in my opinion were very convincing proofs. The audience voted and the book concludes with this....."Then the debate was over. The audience voted; complacency won.....The elite bubble was intact, at least for the evening."
Note: What should be disconcerting to conservatives who are more than enamored with Donald Trump, is that many of his Cabinet picks are right out of the globalist community that James Rickards wrote about in his book. Meanwhile Mr. Trump made a point over the weekend in telling Fox News why he doesn't attend many intelligence briefings..."You know, I'm a smart person. I don't have to be told the same things in the same words every single day for the next eight years." Donald Trump may indeed be smart in a corporate sense but lacks wisdom. Half of his new advisers seem capable of supplying that wisdom but the other half do not. Herein is the problem...who will he listen to when wisdom is needed? My guess is the latter.
Many of the richest people on this earth will be reading this book because they know who James Rickards is.....and they know that he knows them....personally....along with their habits and the way they conduct business. If you read The Road To Ruin, the Global Elites' Secret Plan For The Next Financial Crisis you will see why I make this statement.
It's no coincidence that Rickards chose Revelation 6:5-6 to begin his newest book. Certainly he chose it because it depicts the third seal in Revelation... that of the rider on the black horse that brings famine to the earth.... for it is the author's contention that an "instantaneous decline" and "catastrophic collapse" is most likely in America's future. There are a number of biblical references throughout demonstrating that this secular author is familiar with the Bible but it is my belief that God not only led him to that verse but supplied the gift necessary to understand the inherent defects of capitalism when ruled by greed. .
Donald Trump was mentioned just once in The Road To Ruin! How could this be considering the subject matter of the book? The answer given is that Donald Trump, or any President of the United States, is but a pawn on the chessboard of the global elites; although it should be mentioned that a single pawn, many a time, was the decisive piece in a chess game. The author gives this description of what happens behind the scenes of world economies..."They (the elites) control global finance and, by extension, global politics, because politics are constrained by finance." This concept coincides with my own thoughts on the rise and success of Donald Trump. In a previous decade he might very well have been able to restore somewhat of America's 'greatness'... but coming as he is today....at the latter end on the scale of market collapses....he may instead only be the catalyst that forces the elites to bring about their end-game.
I'm forced to simplify the concepts in this book review because although I am not new to the general topic of world elites and their nefarious schemes, I am a novice in economics compared to the author and therefore limited myself to the major themes of the book. The descriptions may seem very short but if I were to write extensively on it you might then think that you have ingested the essence of the warnings given by James Rickards when you would not have. You would have had a...not only incomplete...but a feeble condensing of these very real and very serious events that must occur...in their proper time....which is in reality in God's proper time.
The most notable economists in power and influence from the past and today have used what are considered the accepted methods in the handling of market emergencies. According to James Rickards, and supported by other experts in these fields, these methods may have been somewhat successful in the past but each case added to the rotting of the foundation which makes the next crisis even more catastrophic. In short, there will be no fixes available the next time, and to make matters worse, according to the author, the elites will use this coming extraordinary emergency to implement their New World Order. Let me remind you that James Rickards is a highly regarded secular economics advisor....not a Bible scholar!
The market emergencies of 1998 and 2008 were caused by ignorance, greed and gross miscalculations by the well-known experts making the decisions. The overall problems for the world economy, as previously stated, intensified after each crisis. So where are we now? The adhesive is gone from the Band-Aids and there are none left in the first-aid kit anyway! The message given is clear...there is no getting out of this catastrophe that is ahead.
The author used an analogy of Ian Fleming's fictional SMERSH that was based on Stalin's Red Army counter-intelligence organization of the same name. He's pointing to actual organizations, the names of which we would be familiar, doing the bidding of the elites. Rickards warns... no... he predicts that money riots will occur in America as our financial system begins to unravel. You'll learn a lot about economics and money in general in this book that includes a very clearly written history on what has transpired in financial markets over the ages but particularly in the past century. The names of those in power who brought us to this precipice are given with no holds barred. Keynes is there along with a dozen other economists, and Woodrow Wilson is skewered along with a dozen other world leaders. If I can understand the complex issues as they are described then you will be able to also.
The author makes this statement...."Sovereigns don't go down without a fight. The response to money riots will be confiscation and brute force. Governing elites will be safe in their hollowed-out mountain command centers. Private elites will fend for themselves in their yachts, helicopters, and gated-communities, which will be converted to armed fortresses." Folks this is coming from a man who dines with the elites of this world and advises our intelligence community!!! He is warning that a "Neofascism will emerge (which is of the Left by the way)....with liberty lost." In support of this he references a 2008 book by Jonah Goldberg titled Liberal Fascism, a book that I hyped in these posts as much as I am doing here with The Road To Ruin. The author has deciphered the agenda of the elites of this world and details every step of that agenda under this outline...."world money, world taxation, and world order."
There was something in the historical context of all this that piqued my interest. Mr. Rickards named seven world orders up to this point...Rome....Charlemagne...the Holy Roman Empire....Westphalia...and the current United Nations, IMF and G-20 structure. Now that's five but he felt it necessary to include China and Islam in the mix. The eighth is what we are headed for. Friends...does that sound familiar? I had been meditating on and off over the years on the major economic systems and world orders we have had. James Rickards....as a professor would....gave precision and details to my own meditations, for it has been my contention for quite some time that this New World Order that the Bible describes would most likely need a catastrophe to precede it. James Rickards agrees and describes in his chapter titled Shock Doctrine a step-by-step process that could very well happen.
Most of the book details past economic crises, why they occurred, what was done to alleviate the situation, how each one contributed to growing the next final collapse, why we have missed the causes, and how through the use of Complexity Theory we can get a murky but usable picture of what is ahead. I know that this sounds daunting in scope but the information flows easily and the message is understandable.
Near the end of the book the author offers some specific investing advice if you are interested. He mentions gold and various other havens. As an aside...he recommends that 5% of your portfolio should be in fine art. I'm ahead of the game on this. I have a real wing-dinger painting hanging in my computer room. It shows a brown Lab sitting on a dock overlooking a small lake at nighttime...and there are little LED lights giving it a beautiful glow. In reality the closest I'll ever get to fine art is if I buy a painting by a fellow named Fine, but the author does give advice that most of us can take advantage of.
In his conclusion to The Road To Ruin, James Rickards describes an informal debate that he took part in at a theater in New York City. There were four debaters...two teams of two experts. The topic to be debated was whether America would 'ascend' in the future or 'decline.' The author and his partner argued for the latter with what in my opinion were very convincing proofs. The audience voted and the book concludes with this....."Then the debate was over. The audience voted; complacency won.....The elite bubble was intact, at least for the evening."
Note: What should be disconcerting to conservatives who are more than enamored with Donald Trump, is that many of his Cabinet picks are right out of the globalist community that James Rickards wrote about in his book. Meanwhile Mr. Trump made a point over the weekend in telling Fox News why he doesn't attend many intelligence briefings..."You know, I'm a smart person. I don't have to be told the same things in the same words every single day for the next eight years." Donald Trump may indeed be smart in a corporate sense but lacks wisdom. Half of his new advisers seem capable of supplying that wisdom but the other half do not. Herein is the problem...who will he listen to when wisdom is needed? My guess is the latter.
