Southbank Investment Research, Released on 12/31/24

Welcome to Day 5 of the 2025 Southbank Gold Summit! In this episode, legendary economist, investment strategist, and author Jim Rickards joins us to discuss why gold is “The Everything Hedge” for the uncertainties of our time. With decades of experience in financial markets, economic warfare, and global risk analysis, Jim brings unparalleled insight into why gold remains a critical asset in a world of shifting power dynamics and volatile markets.

Key highlights of this episode include:

• Why the U.S. dollar’s decline is driving gold’s rise.
• How BRICS nations are reshaping global trade and finance with gold at the center.
• The role of gold as the ultimate hedge against geopolitical risk, inflation, and sovereign instability.

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.

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