The purpose of this book — and ofJim Rickards' StrategicIntelligence— is to Jim pennedThe Big Dropbecause the themes that willspark the next crisis are The author Jim Richards, 35-year Wall Street veteran and financial warfare analyst for the Pentagon, gives you a complete blueprint on how to shelter your But as Jim points out in Chapter 11, 'The Beginning of the End for the Dollar', this reader's argument is misleading at best — and downright dangerous at worst. The dollar was losing purchasing power, dropping by half from 1977 to 1981; U.S. inflation was over 50 percent during those five years. Starting in 1979, the