The Road to Ruin

The Global Elites' Secret Plan for the Next Financial Crisis

By: James Rickards

Narrated by: James Rickards

Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins

Publisher's summary

The best-selling author of The Death of Money and Currency Wars reveals the global elites' dark effort to hide a coming catastrophe from investors.

A drumbeat is sounding among the global elites. The signs of a worldwide financial meltdown are unmistakable. This time the elites have an audacious plan to protect themselves from the fallout: hoarding cash now and locking down the global financial system when a crisis hits.

Since 2014, international monetary agencies have been issuing warnings to a small group of finance ministers, banks, and private equity funds: The US government's cowardly choices not to prosecute J.P. Morgan and its ilk and to bloat the economy with a $4 trillion injection of easy credit are driving us headlong toward a cliff.

As Rickards shows in this frightening, meticulously researched book, governments around the world have no compunction about conspiring against their citizens. They will have stockpiled hard assets when stock exchanges are closed, ATMs shut down, money market funds frozen, asset managers instructed not to sell securities, negative interest rates imposed, and cash withdrawals denied.

If you want to plan for the risks ahead, you will need Rickards's cutting-edge synthesis of behavioral economics, history, and complexity theory. It's a guidebook to thinking smarter, acting faster, and living with the comforting knowledge that your wealth is secure.

The global elites don't want this book to exist. Their plan to herd us like sheep to the slaughter when a global crisis erupts - and, of course, to maintain their wealth - works only if we remain complacent and unaware. Thanks to The Road to Ruin, we don't need to be.

©2016 James Rickards (P)2016 Penguin Audio

more great insight

There is a lot here. Could read it several times, yet it is summarized routinely. Thumbs up.

Fascinating and informative

I love a presentation where the facts are laid out clearly , succinctly, in this case relatively unemotionally and then the conclusion with a little summary. I also love when the work is presented by the author himself.. This story is like a spy novel, except I accept it as non-fiction. Thanks Jim, this is a life changer. I suspected the US empire was in the circus and bread phase, your work tells me the defining crash is very close. No time to loose, time to prepare as best I can.
2nd listening- there is enough here for me to study chap 1-8 in detail and follow the depth of Jim's insights, to really think through The contrast between current theory : equilibrium model , Keynesian economics , monetarism, floating exchange rates , free trade, globalization, and fiat currency versus the the actual reality of ; complexity theory of various system, conditional probability, neomercatilism, behavioral economics and psychology, gold as currency , and the reality of existing currency wars. This is pure genius and I don't want to leave any stone unturned for enlightenment.. I'm looking forward to Jim's next book with even more insights on the update of what's going on and 2018. Jim your making a difference.

Be prepared for what's coming!

Rickard's extensive knowledge of historical economics and the nuances of the modern system paint a troubling picture we must all be prepared for.

This is what ha been going on!

I wish I discovered James Rickards writings years ago.

My whole adult life I have been questioning our economy. I’ve been questioning common wisdom.

The stock market and our overall economic numbers have never made sense to me. These books explain why my intuition was correct.

Read this book now - April 2020

it is happening... great book to articulate what is going on now and what's to come.

Complex Systems Analysis

Incisive historical analysis of past financial failures and the future that awaits. Review of failures tempered by humility and an analysis using Complex Systems Theory to incorporate as much of the dynamic human element as possible. Loved the historical, financial and mathematical integration to provide thorough introspection for American and Global socio-economic and political systems. I hope this knowledge will transcend through to the next global system to rise in our place.

Same story he's written twice before

Any additional comments?

I really enjoy the information Rickards provides however if you've read or listen to his previous two books it's the same story retold with a different title.

Ain't no rest for the wicked

This book is a wake up call for those still sleeping to what is going on in our world. It is a scary proposition and in a world of potential worst case scenarios, James paints a picture everyone should take heed. These things are already happening. I hope Janet Yellen and others read this. Regardless. You must!

Every crisis tightens the noose strangling our American way of life.

Read this and tell others to read or loose your liberty and become a slave

Amazing Revelation

Loved it - the complexity theory explained to a layman like me and the inevitable systemic economic collapse. Scary, but J. Rickards.also gives some advice on how to survive it.