More from Rickards -
In his recent infomercial, Rickards said that Trump is likely to convene a big multinational finance meeting at which the plan is to return to a gold standard (!) He explained how the dollar has entered into a critical phase where it is increasingly being abandoned as the world's reserve and trade currency, so the return to a gold standard is presumably a desperation move by the US to hold things together to maintain control.
Rickards points out that most of the seats on the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve are either empty now or will be soon, and Trump will have to appoint the replacements, many of whom will back the idea of a gold standard.
I was floored to hear this, but since the source is Rickards it can't be dismissed out of hand. He's really sticking his neck out with this prediction, so must have some fairly solid info to go on.
He's calling it a 'reboot' of the financial system, with the likely re-price of gold to $10,000. He says other world currencies will also readjust to the $10,000 figure. Rickards makes it sound like this could possibly happen by year end or in early/mid 2018. This sounds a lot like what Lindsey Williams' insider friend said several years ago.
In Rickards' infomercial he didn't mention the IMF's plan to have the SDR transition to a Distributed Ledger Technology (see previous post), which will make it easy for other countries to stop using the US dollar, but that must have something to do with this gold standard idea.
Fwiw, while Rickards has given out lots of great info over the years, and has had some close interaction with the US intelligence community, my operating hypothesis is that in addition to making money for himself, he works for them as a conduit for disseminating info that they want to get out to the public, with varying degrees of spin that they require. Floating info out is a technique that acclimates the public to what's coming, which improves its acceptance when it happens ('predictive programming'). Rickards is a designated disseminator, and in return he's allowed to make money off the process -
>>> "Predictive programming is a subtle form of psychological conditioning provided by the media to acquaint the public with planned societal changes to be implemented by our leaders." <<<
