**USA Today bestseller and Wall Street Journal business bestseller** They say John Maynard
Keynes called gold a "barbarous relic." They say there isn't enough gold to support finance
and commerce. They say the gold supply can't increase fast enough to support world growth.
They're wrong. In this bold manifesto bestselling author and economic commentator James
Rickards steps forward to defend gold-as both an irreplaceable store of wealth and a standard
for currency. Global political instability and market volatility are on the rise. Gold
always a prudent asset to own has become the single most important wealth preservation tool
for banks and individuals alike. Rickards draws on historical case studies monetary theory
and personal experience as an investor to argue that: • The next financial collapse will be
exponentially bigger than the panic of 2008. • The time will come sooner rather than later
when there will be panic buying and only central banks hedge funds and other big players will
be able to buy any gold at all. • It's not too late to prepare ourselves as a nation: there's
always enough gold for a gold standard if we specify a stable nondeflationary price.
Providing clear instructions on how much gold to buy and where to store it the short
provocative argument in this book will change the way you look at this "barbarous relic"
forever.
