Jim Rickards – X, Released on 12/29/25

The Trump-Zelensky peace deal will be unacceptable to Putin. Another example of how the West is good at negotiating with itself but still has no idea how to negotiate with Russia. Want to end the war? Get oil to $25.00 per barrel. Putin will listen.https://t.co/CL8JNgxYai

— James Rickards (@RealJimRickards) December 29, 2025

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 Sold Out: How Broken Supply Chains, Surging Inflation, and Political Instability Will Sink the Global Economy.