Lol he has about as much education as anyone else making these claims. If he actually had a fortune he wouldn't be making stupid videos about this garbage! It's just educated guesses. Who can't make those?
Rickards isn't some random hack making self promoting claims. Experience and 'education' wise he is very well qualified. Currency Wars has acted as a play-by-play blueprint for how things have gone over the last 5 years. Is he right about everything? No, not at all, but he has been very good. No one has a crystal ball. But I can say he was spouting about the Yuan in the SDR basket way before everyone else and the implications this has going forward (ie China will mostly play ball before the inclusion)
Rickards is a gold guy, and his main thesis of a monetary reset concludes with gold regaining prominence; one of his main points is that inflation can be conjured up overnight simply by repricing gold much higher, but this is not the way elites want to do it. For me I take the theme ( a monetary reset is coming, current models are inadequate etc etc) and follow that, remove the gold bias. Not that I don't have some gold as insurance. And JR dislikes bitcoin like only a goldbug can (its digital not physical etc, can be hacked blah blah) but I don't, so I involve buying bitcoin as a hedge against a monetary reset.
The tl:dr is you don't have to agree with his biases but at least consider the wider themes being talked about. His new book (although I have not read it) is about the next step the elite policy makers will take: war on cash, negative rates, bail ins etc etc. It is already happening. Much the same goes for Armstrong - you can shout about his short term calls being off but he was the first I know of to say 1) the next crisis will be a sovereign debt one and 2) the 2016 election will see an outsider win.