James Rickards is the New York Times bestselling author of Aftermath, The Road to Ruin, The Death of Money, Currency Wars, and The New Case for Gold, which have been translated into sixteen languages. He is the editor of the newsletter Strategic Intelligence and is a member of the advisory board of the Center for Financial Economics at Johns Hopkins University. As an adviser on international economics and financial threats to the Department of Defense and the U.S. intelligence community, he served as a facilitator of the first-ever financial war games conducted by the Pentagon.