James Rickards

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James G. Rickards (29 September 1951) is an American lawyer, investment banker, media commentator, and author on matters of finance and precious metals. He is the author of Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis (2011) and seven

other books. He currently lives in Connecticut.

Biography

Rickards graduated from Lower Cape May Regional High School in Cape May, New Jersey, in 1969. He graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1973 with a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors, and in 1974, from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C., with an M.A. in international economics. He received his Juris Doctor from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and a Master of Laws in taxation from New York University School of Law.

He has held senior positions at Citibank, Long-Term Capital Management, and Caxton Associates. As general counsel for the hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM), he successfully negotiated the $3.6 billion rescue of the firm via the U.S. Federal Reserve in 1998. Rickards worked on Wall Street for 35 years. Later, Rickards became the senior managing director at Tangent Capital Partners LLC, a merchant bank based in New York City, and also the senior managing director for market intelligence at Omnis, Inc., a technical, professional and scientific consulting firm in McLean, Va. On March 24, 2009, Rickards presented his view at a symposium at Johns Hopkins University, that the U.S. dollar was facing imminent hyperinflation and was vulnerable to attack from foreign governments through the accumulation of gold and the establishment of a new global currency.

On September 10, 2009, Rickards testified before the U.S. House Science Subcommittee on Oversight about the risks of financial modeling, value at risk, and the 2008 financial crisis.

He has also claimed he advised the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. intelligence community, and major hedge funds on global financial issues, and has served as a facilitator of the first ever financial war games conducted by The Pentagon. He also guest-lectures at The Kellogg School at Northwestern University and the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. He states he was on the Advisory Board of the Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance, a former organization within the conservative think tank and lobbying organization, the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) in Washington, D.C.