Jim Rickards
speaker
2,787 appearances
21 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2025
last heard 6d ago
Jim Rickards’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Interestingly, I've tracked it myself, Trump tends to do this on weekends, Friday or Saturday.
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It's almost like he's propping up the stock market so it'll open higher on Monday, which it did.
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I think another mistake is Trump mistakes the stock market for the economy.
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They actually go their own ways to a great extent.
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People care about the 401ks, but they care more about everything else.
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Price of gas at the pump, home mortgages, kids' schools, kids buying first homes.
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uh you know sprouts were getting on the underlying economy he talked about main street not wall street right what are your thoughts on that are you buying it uh he was correct and i'm not disputing what he said but let's uh let's peel back the onion a little bit what he said was that u.s manufacturing was going up it was expanding rapidly and he's and it's creating jobs in that sector he's absolutely right about that but what is it
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It's data centers.
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You spend a trillion dollars, upwards of $2 trillion at this point, maybe more, building these massive data centers that are taking up half a county or whatever, sucking the power grid dry, et cetera.
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That's a separate debate whether that all makes sense.
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That is what's driving investment.
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the manufacturing sector, and it does great jobs.
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Somebody's got to work on them and build them.
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Again, I don't dispute that, but the question is, is that long-term productivity?
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They get into the whole AI debate.
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Okay, we're spending a couple trillion dollars.
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That'll give your GDP a nice boost, and it's real.
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But is it any different than the ghost cities in China?
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I've been all over China.
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I've been to the ghost cities.
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