Summary of James Rickards's Aftermath

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The problem is that the United States has been on a path to a crisis of confidence in the dollar, as trade deficits have been accompanied by perpetual free trade and globalism. This must be solved to secure the future strength and stability of the United States.
#2 The CIA has many names for itself. It is often referred to as Langley, after its location in McLean, Virginia. However, the initials CIA do not appear in the official headquarters name, the George Bush Center for Intelligence.
#3 The CIA Museum has a lipstick gun that was used to kill targets at close range. It was a small-caliber, single-shot pistol disguised as a tube of lipstick. A woman spy in a tight spot could casually remove the lipstick and kill her target at close range.
#4 The CIA is trained to be wary of social engineering, which is a term for simple friendliness to strangers. Compartmentalization is the process of breaking access to intelligence into separate cells or groups.

Sujets

• Wealth Management
• Economie gestion
• Economics
• Business
• Finance

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 08 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822502574
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on James Rickards's Aftermath
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The problem is that the United States has been on a path to a crisis of confidence in the dollar, as trade deficits have been accompanied by perpetual free trade and globalism. This must be solved to secure the future strength and stability of the United States.

#2

The CIA has many names for itself. It is often referred to as Langley, after its location in McLean, Virginia. However, the initials CIA do not appear in the official headquarters name, the George Bush Center for Intelligence.

#3

The CIA Museum has a lipstick gun that was used to kill targets at close range. It was a small-caliber, single-shot pistol disguised as a tube of lipstick. A woman spy in a tight spot could casually remove the lipstick and kill her target at close range.

#4

The CIA is trained to be wary of social engineering, which is a term for simple friendliness to strangers. Compartmentalization is the process of breaking access to intelligence into separate cells or groups.

#5

The Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach was the scene of my most memorable encounter with Russian spies. In 2009, I went there to give a keynote speech titled The Geopolitical Special Address to an audience of about a thousand hedge fund and alternative asset managers.

#6

I received a call from a man named Boris, who said his company could pay me big money to consult on geopolitical issues. His associate, Natasha, emphasized the offer was from a Russian client. I had to travel to Russia to meet with them.

#7

I was planning the Pentagon’s first-ever financial war game in March 2009, and was heavily involved in planning scenarios that involved Russia. I was approached by two Russians who offered me money for secrets. I declined.

#8

One architectural oddity in the CIA’s Langley headquarters is the Scattergood-Thorne residence, a white, three-story wood-frame farmhouse that was built in the 1780s. It is rarely entered by more than a handful of agency personnel.

#9

CFIUS is the committee that decides whether foreign acquisitions of American target companies are allowed to go forward. The committee tries to strike a balance between benign foreign investment and malign penetrations of critical infrastructure.

#10

The CIA and other intelligence agencies use case officers, secret agents, and technical means to penetrate layers of legal obfuscation that bad actors use to disguise their role. Once the intelligence is collected, it is delivered to analysts at CIA headquarters who connect the dots by comparing collections with other sources of information.

#11

The acquisition of the PO ports by DP World created a media and political frenzy. Despite the fact that as part of its mitigation, Dubai agreed to allow the CIA to position assets in other DP World port facilities, this was ignored in favor of focusing on the racist aspects of the deal.

#12

I recruited a team of deal lawyers, risk arbitrageurs, subject-matter experts, and private-equity players who knew their way around emerging markets. They were to help the CIA avoid being blindsided by future deals.

#13

The dirty dozen were a group of twelve people who were tasked with advising the intelligence community on financial issues. They were disbanded in mid-2013, after having helped keep America safe from foreign financial threats for seven years.

#14

In 2005, a Canadian entrepreneur named Frank Giustra made a foray into uranium mining. In 2007, he merged his company, UrAsia Energy, with Uranium One, another major uranium producer based in Canada and South Africa.

#15

Uranium One, a deal involving the purchase of uranium mines by the Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation, Rosatom, was approved by CFIUS in 2010, with Hillary Clinton’s support.

#16

The Uranium One deal went through because the secretary of state and the White House wanted it to go through. The position of the deal in the category of deals typically denied was ignored.

#17

The Uranium One scandal lives on today. On November 16, 2017, Reuters reported the case of lobbyist William D. Campbell, who claimed to have information pertaining to corrupt efforts by Rosatom to influence the CFIUS approval of the Uranium One acquisition.

#18

Trump’s presidential campaign, which was launched on June 16, 2015, was the most explicitly nationalistic campaign by a major party candidate since Buchanan’s run for the Republican Party nomination in 1996.

#19

The globalist vision treats the nation-state as at best an inconvenience, and at worst a threat to the full realization of their vision. Unspoken in the rush to a heroic new world of free capital flows, free trade, free-floating exchange rates, and frictionless migration is the fact that national governance will be displaced.

#20

The globalist case for free trade is based on the early-19th-century theory of comparative advantage, which states that countries should not try to be self-sufficient in all aspects of manufacturing, mining, and agriculture. Instead, they should specialize in what they do best and trade the goods they make for the goods made by others.

#21

Free trade, open capital accounts, and floating exchange rates are empirically deficient ideas. They serve as a smokescreen for the Davos elite’s hidden agenda: to promote global growth at American expense, diminish the power of the United States in world affairs, and enhance the power of rising nations, especially China.

#22

CFIUS has been used to block hostile takeovers, as it was in the case of the Qualcomm semiconductor company, which was takeover attempt by Singapore-based Broadcom.

#23

Investors should expect a more mercantilist world, in which trade surpluses and gold accumulation are treated as ends in themselves.