ii THE BiG DROP
What will this crisis look like?
When will it arrive?
How will it affect Australia in ways the last financial cri-
sis didn’t?
And what can you do to protect yourself?
In this book, the world’s leading ‘financial warfare’ expert
gives you some answers.
I first met Jim Rickards face-to-face last year. We managed
to convince him to get on a plane and present at our World
War D conference in Melbourne. He stole the show with a pre-
sentation called ‘Mutually Assured Financial Destruction —
the Future of Warfare is Financial War’.
While most people know Jim Rickards as a two-time New
York Times best-selling author (or have seen him on TV), his
experience actually spans 35 years on Wall Street.
Even less well known is Jim’s extensive work within the
government, where he has been an advisor to the Office of the
Director of National Intelligence, which oversees the NSA, the
CIA, and 14 other US intelligence agencies.
In fact, after September 11, he was recruited by the CIA
to develop a program to investigate stock market signals that
could identify terrorist activities before they occurred (like the
bets against airline stocks before 9/11).
Jim Rickards’ personal history — plus his constant expert
encounters in intelligence work, non-profit endeavours, fi-
nance and academia — are responsible for the book you hold
in your hands...and for our monthly financial newsletter, Jim
Rickards’ Strategic Intelligence.
The fact that you’re reading this foreword means one thing:
you’ve joined our ranks. There is no better time for forward-
looking Australian investors to receive such intelligence. As
you will soon see, a storm is coming. And, unlike 2007/2008,
unprepared Australians will feel its FULL magnitude.
According to Jim, we are heading towards a devastating