New Order with Afshin Rattansi, Released on 4/26/26

On this episode of New Order, we speak to James Rickards, Former Pentagon Advisor and Editor of Strategic Intelligence. He discusses the US-Iran closure of the Strait of Hormuz and why it is likely to remain closed for the foreseeable future, why the global economic crisis will start unfolding including a risk of mass starvation, China’s vulnerability to the continued closure of the Strait of Hormuz and why Donald Trump would want the Strait to remain shut, Trump’s plan to reinforce petrodollar hegemony through a duopoly of oil with Russia, India’s balancing act between Russia and the United States and why the dollar is likely to continue dominate, why the new BRICS currency is gold, his forecast for the price of gold, and much more.

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 MoneyGPT: AI and the Threat to the Global Economy.

  economy, gold, iran war