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The New Case for Gold Kindle Edition

4.4 out of 5 stars 1,587 ratings

In The New Case for Gold, James Rickards explains why gold is one of the safest assets for investors in times of political instability and market volatility, and how every investor should look to add gold to his or her portfolio.

Drawing on historical case studies, monetary theory and his personal experience as an investor, Rickards argues that gold should be a part of any prudent investor's portfolio.

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James Rickards gifts us once again with his clarity of prose, depth of experience and sound analysis ... An illuminating, original argument for gold as a critical contender in today's money games. The most important book on gold yet.

We can't trust the Federal Reserve to do the honest work that Jim Rickards has done in writing this book ... Essential reading.

Excellent ... Rickards makes a compelling case for why those looking for a way to protect themselves and their families from economic chaos created by central bankers should consider gold.

About the Author

James Rickards is the bestselling author of Currency Wars, The Death of Money, A New Case for Gold and The Road to Ruin. He is a portfolio manager at West Shore Group and an adviser on international economics and financial threats to the Department of Defence and the US intelligence community. He served as facilitator of the first-ever financial war games conducted by the Pentagon.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01AXE98PK
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin
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  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ 5 April 2016
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1.0 MB
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 177 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0241248362
  • Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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James Rickards is the Editor of Strategic Intelligence, a financial newsletter, and Director of The James Rickards Project, an inquiry into the complex dynamics of geopolitics + global capital. He is the author of The New Case for Gold (April 2016), and two New York Times best sellers, The Death of Money (2014), and Currency Wars (2011) from Penguin Random House. He is a portfolio manager, lawyer, and economist, and has held senior positions at Citibank, Long-Term Capital Management, and Caxton Associates. In 1998, he was the principal negotiator of the rescue of LTCM sponsored by the Federal Reserve. His clients include institutional investors and government directorates. He is an Op-Ed contributor to the Financial Times, Evening Standard, New York Times, and Washington Post, and has been interviewed on BBC, CNN, NPR, C- SPAN, CNBC, Bloomberg, Fox, and The Wall Street Journal. Mr. Rickards is a guest lecturer in globalization and finance at The Johns Hopkins University, The Kellogg School at Northwestern, and the School of Advanced International Studies. He has delivered papers on risk at Singularity University, the Applied Physics Laboratory, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He is an advisor on capital markets to the U.S. intelligence community, and the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and is on the Advisory Board of the Center on Sanctions & Illicit Finance in Washington DC. Mr. Rickards holds an LL.M. (Taxation) from the NYU School of Law; a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School; an M.A. in international economics from SAIS, and a B.A. (with honors) from Johns Hopkins. He lives in New Hampshire.

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Customers find the book well-written and easy to understand, providing valuable insights into gold's role throughout history as money. They appreciate its engaging narrative and credibility, with one customer describing it as a "sensational narrative that hooks you." Customers value the book's content, with one noting its comprehensive coverage of gold's potential role in the future monetary system.

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Customers find the book readable and well-written, with one customer noting its easily understood analysis.

"This book is very interesting and well written. But there is very little in it that one could call new...." Read more

"Excellent book which sets out the case for holding gold as a 'hedge', which Rikards suggest we should all do to a level of about 10% of our assets...." Read more

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"This is a great book - a quick and fairly easy read, well explained, yet it takes in the larger eco-system surrounding gold, together with past..." Read more

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Customers find the book informative and insightful, providing great explanations of gold and its potential role in the future.

"...book The Death of Money and found it incredibly tightly written and informative...." Read more

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"Engrossing, clear and insightful. I was able to read the whole book in a single sitting and took a lot of ideas away with me. Recommended." Read more

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Customers find the book offers good value, with one review highlighting its comprehensive coverage of money's role throughout history and in the current monetary system, while another notes its practical guidance on navigating economics.

"...This time he focusses on gold, it's role in the current monetary system, it's role throughout history as money and how he sees it's importance..." Read more

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Amazing Book. For anyone who does not know about James Rickards, he is a Lawyer, Director, Financial Expert, and has worked on Wall Street. He has also been a Financial War Games consultant for the American Government. The only reason some people score this book less than 5 stars is because some info in this book can be found in 'James Rickards' previous work. As a gift for someone interested in financial, business, investments, world affairs. This book is truly brilliant.
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  • Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 May 2016
    Brilliant insights from a man who should know better than most what direction future monetary policy will probably take and the potential role of gold in that future. I have read more than a dozen books on gold in the last few years and for my money, this is undoubtedly the best yet. A must read for everyone who wants to understand the pivotal point that global debt has reached and the likely implications for the US dollar as the world's reserve currency, and what actions they can take to prepare and protect themselves for that eventuality.
    7 people found this helpful
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  • Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 April 2016
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    This book is very interesting and well written. But there is very little in it that one could call new. It pretty well sums up a lot of information and advice about gold that you can find for free from other commentators who give interviews on channels such as USAWatchdog and King World News. Also, some of the content in the book is a repeat of what is in his excellent book "The Death of Money". That said, I would still recommend the book to those to whom the content is new.
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  • Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 September 2024
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    I like the Way Rickards lays out his logic for each part of the book. However his predicted crash has not happened yet. We remain to see when it will happen at all. Looking back over the last 100 years of British history there has not been chaos except at protests such as the miners strike. Yet the system remained throughout. Perhaps the US is a more extreme environment. But as a UK person I don't feel so threatened by chaos if I keep my head down.
  • Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 December 2017
    Excellent Book. James Rickards is the wisest person in the economic sector today. There will come a time when people look back and think, I wish I had read this book and took his advice. 10% of your wealth into a commodity that has been used, a storer of value and treasured for 5000 years is logical to invest in to protect your self and your family's future from the dillusional government economic system.
  • Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 June 2016
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    I only recently got exposed to Rickards' work, and the man is unbelievably erudite, informed, just crazy intelligent - and I'm responding to his warnings by following his advice.

    I devoured his book The Death of Money and found it incredibly tightly written and informative. There are many areas of global economics I find too hard really to get my head around, but his writing made it more accessible and digestible.

    I felt disappointed with this work though. So much of what I read in here I had already read in The Death of Money or heard on one of his talks on Youtube. I can see the sense in him writing a new book explicitly arguing the case for buying gold but too much rehashing was a big turn-off.

    I also felt this book seems written in a rush. Compared with Death of Money which was so very well written, with incredible precision, this seems very flaccid in a way, quite under-edited I think.

    So in general a big yes for Rickards in general, but if you've read the Death of Money this isn't a worthwhile purchase.
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  • Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 September 2020
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    Quick read. Logical, clear. Excellent run through of the gold market. Focuses on why action may be necessary. Recommended Credible author.
  • Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 March 2025
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    I'd recommend it for sixth form students wanting to study finance / economics and need to write something on their personal statement. Great historical and reasoning for how gold is a dependable wealth store (albeit in retrospect for centuries rather than decades), and introduces you to the realistic concept of economic chaos theory, rather than theoretical linear output input mechanics. Also discusses the 2008 financial crisis which is very helpful at uni.
  • Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 May 2016
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    Excellent book which sets out the case for holding gold as a 'hedge', which Rikards suggest we should all do to a level of about 10% of our assets. Physical gold only though. Doesn't paint a rosy picture of the world economy but hard to disagree with his hypothesis.

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  • alberto roldan navarro
    4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting
    Reviewed in Spain on 28 December 2019
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    Too short but it was written by somebody who is not a fund manager with an independent view about gold. It’s a pity, and at some point regrettable, his left oriented opinion about Economy
  • Goldstaub Roberta
    5.0 out of 5 stars Gold
    Reviewed in Italy on 18 December 2016
    Jim Rickards at his best. Great insight, brilliant exposure, huge back up of facts.
    Don't miss it, gives you what you need know in these dire straights!
  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Very informative!!
    Reviewed in India on 2 November 2024
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    The author gives hint of politics played by big players to keep general people out of holding Gold.
    It's very rightly said in Hindu scriptures and others that Gold and silver our God's money.
  • Graf von Falkenstein
    5.0 out of 5 stars Das barbarische Relikt als Werterhaltungsanker
    Reviewed in Germany on 2 June 2016
    Um sich als Geld zu qualifizieren,muss das jeweilige Medium, klar definierte Ansprüche erfüllen.
    So muss Geld eine

    - Zahlungsfunktion
    - Wertmaßstab
    - Werterhaltungsfunktion

    besitzen.
    Unterzieht man das heute gängige "Fiat money", welches aus dem Nichts geschöpft werde kann, obigen Kriterien, ist zumindest die Werterhaltungsfunktion nicht gegeben. Durch Inflation, verliert ein numerischer Betrag Papiergeld, stetig an Wert. Gold hingegen hat seinen Wert über Jahrtausende nicht eingebüßt. So konnte in der Antike eine Toga für 1 Unze Gold erstanden werden. Auch heute bekommt man für die gleiche Menge Gold eine edlen Herrenanzug. Somit sollte Gold als der feststehende Wermaßstab, gleich einer "Goldenen Konstante" betrachtet werden, um welche die Währungskurse schwanken.
    Dennoch, oder gerade deshalb, ist Gold als natürlicher Gegner grenzenlos vermehrbaren Papiergeldes, dauernden Anfeindungen ausgesetzt.
    So wird es als barbarisches Relikt, ohne intrinsichen Wert, welches die große Depression 1929 verursacht haben soll, bezeichnet.
    Zinslos im Charakter und mengenmäßig nicht ausreichend um Finanzen und Handel zu betreiben.
    Sämtliche Totschlagargumente entwertet der Autor und arbeitet heraus, dass Gold als Zahlungsmittel eine Währung darstellt, welche, in Anbetracht des fehlenden Gegenparteienrisikos, kein zinstragendes Investment, sondern eine Währung und global akzeptiertes Zahlungsmittel ist.

    Doch scheint das reine Papiergeldsystem, durch die exponentielle Aufzinsung der Verschuldung, an seine Grenzen gelangt zu sein.
    Finanzielle Instabilität, unerträgliche Schuldenstände und die stete Vergrößerung der Vermögensunterschiede, sind logische und unabwendbare Konsequenzen, welche mit dem Betreiben eines ungedeckten Geldsystems einhergehen.
    Umso mehr ist die Politik bestrebt, den natürlichen Marktkräften, welche eine Bereinigung der Fehlallokationen durch Deflation anstreben, zu widerstehen und Gold als sicheren Hafen nicht in die Aufmerksamtkeit der breiten Masse zu rücken.
    So wird der Goldpreis, seit der Aufkündigung des Goldstandards durch Präsident Nixon im Jahr 1971, "gemanagt"
    Dies auch vor dem Hintergrund, dass Schwellenländer, allen voran, China, als Nettokäufer, ihre Goldbestände auf ein Niveau anheben können, welches sie befähigt, bei einer anstehenden Neuausrichtung des Finanzsystems, eine Absicherung ihrer Staatsanleihenbestände zu besitzen und andererseits auch gleibhberechtigter Partner bei derartigen Verhandlungen zu sein.

    Der breiten Bevölkerungsmasse werden Gold und Bargeld, als nicht mehr zeitgemäßes Relikt präsentiert und langsam, durch die Implementierung bargeldloser Zahlungsmethoden, in den vollkommen digitalisierten Zahlungsverkehr geführt. Dieser liefert die Bürger der Willkür des Staates aus, welcher damit uneigeschränkten Zugriff auf das Vermögen besitzt.
    Es ist dies ein schleichender Prozess, welcher bereits vor ca. 100 Jahren mit der Abschaffung von Goldmünzen, zu goldbesichertem Papiergeld, über ungedecktes Papiergeld, hin zur rein digitalen Zahlungsform, und damit der Abschaffung des Bargelds, reicht.

    Gold in physischem, privaten Besitz, bietet eine Werterhaltungsfunktion, bei der, wie auch immer sich präsentierenden Neuausrichtung des Finanzsystems und schützt vor direktem staatlichen Zugriff, auf diesen Teil des Vermögens.
    Allerdings, so lehrt die Geschichte, legte der Staat auch regelmäßig die Hand auf den privaten Goldbesitz. So war dieser in den USA von 1933 bis 1973 verboten.

    Insgesamt ein sehr lehreiches, kompaktes Buch, von einem Insider der Materie, welches neue Ein- und Ausblicke auf die Entwicklung des Finanzsystems bietet und welche Maßnahmen der Einzelene, zu Vorbereitung auf die kommenden Ereignisse, ergreifen sollte.
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars The New Case For Gold is Rickards Manifesto!
    Reviewed in the United States on 11 May 2016
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    In his newest book, The New Case For Gold, Jim Rickards has produced his most powerful and timely work yet. In a very articulate narrative he explains all the reasons why the average person needs to acquire gold and acquire it NOW. Rickards takes a very complex global monetary and economic subject and puts it into very simple and understandable terms. Whether or not you are an experienced gold advocate or a complete newbie to the world of gold you will learn something. Mr. Rickards is a very smart and accomplished expert in the world of global finance. He uses that expertise to share the big picture and all the "moving parts" that are involved between the major players on the world stage. Rickards gives a thorough historical background of the part gold has played in the world economies. His advice to regular folks who may not be investment savvy and looking for a simple strategy to protect their wealth is to own physical gold as insurance or a hedge against a potential monetary and economic crisis. This book is not just recycling the old justifications for owning gold. Rickards points out the majority of our money and wealth is in a digital form these days. Consequently our portfolios and bank accounts are at very high risk of "cyber financial terrorism"! He warns us that hackers from our international competition are perpetually attempting to break into our government and large financial institutions computer systems to bring them crashing down, reeking havoc and disaster. Physical gold, says Rickards, is a tangible asset that can't be hacked. These are only a few justifications in a long list that Rickards promotes. The New Case For Gold is the most comprehensive work about what's going on in the global economic, monetary and currency wars with the most rational financial strategy for us regular investors. The message: Buy some physical gold NOW while it's still available and affordable. Invest the $15 for the book. It may be the best investment you ever made. TC

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