Jim Rickards

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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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We were hours away, hours away from shutting every market in the world.
That is not an overstatement.
It's not.
I'll give you an example.
By the way, in 1998, they went alphabetically to get the commitments.
And Bear Stearns was first or second alphabetically.
He said, we're not in.
So the chairman of Merrill Lynch, this big guy, put his arm around, went out in the hall with Jimmy Cain, who was the chairman of Bear Stearns, and said, Jimmy, we've got to do this for Wall Street.
We're all in this together.
And Cain said, when the F did we become partners?
And that was never forgotten.
10 years later, Bear Stearns was done.
So Wall Street has a long memory.
But to your point, Steve, the 2008 financial crisis, you mentioned that.
That's another one.
It started in August 2007.
It took 13 months to get to Lehman Brothers.
It started with the French money market fund in August of 2007.
So I went down to Washington and met with the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury.
This is the Bush administration.
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