James Dale Davidson is an American private investor and investment writer, co-writer of the newsletter ''Strategic Investment'', and co-author with

William Rees-Mogg William Rees-Mogg, Baron Rees-Mogg (14 July 192829 December 2012) was a British newspaper journalist who was Editor of ''The Times'' from 1967 to 1981. In the late 1970s, he served as High Sheriff of Somerset, and in the 1980s was Chairman of t ...

of ''Blood in the Streets: Investment Profits in a World Gone Mad'' (1987), ''The Great Reckoning'' (1991),Tom Lucas
Book Review - The great reckoning - A global warning on wealth
''Management Today'', 1 May 1992 and ''The Sovereign Individual'' (1997). He wrote ''The Plague of the Black Debt - How to Survive the Coming Depression'' in 1993 in which he predicted that as part of a "deep depression...Clinton is going to be a one-term president...I am as sure of this as I am that the sun will rise tomorrow" and that the US national debt would increase by a trillion dollars during Clinton's "one-term" presidency. He further wrote in the book that

Boris Yeltsin Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin ( rus, Борис Николаевич Ельцин, p=bɐˈrʲis nʲɪkɐˈla(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈjelʲtsɨn, a=Ru-Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin.ogg; 1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician wh ...

, President of the Russian Federation, would lose his job and that Russia will come under the control of a nationalist, militarist regime. He has been credited with predicting the U.S.

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, though much earlier than it actually occurred. Davidson was the founder and former head of the

National Taxpayers Union The National Taxpayers Union (NTU) is a fiscally conservative taxpayer advocacy organization and taxpayers union in the United States, founded in 1977 by James Dale Davidson. NTU says that it is the oldest taxpayer advocacy organization in th ...

. On his website, Davidson claims to be a "famous economist", despite the fact that he has not received any university degree in economics or published in any

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ed journal. In his books and his monthly newsletter, ''Strategic Investment'', Davidson has promoted

conspiracy theories A conspiracy theory is an explanation for an event or situation that invokes a conspiracy by sinister and powerful groups, often political in motivation, when other explanations are more probable.Additional sources: * * * * The term has a nega ...

claimed to link the

Clinton administration Bill Clinton's tenure as the 42nd president of the United States began with his first inauguration on January 20, 1993, and ended on January 20, 2001. Clinton, a Democrat from Arkansas, took office following a decisive election victory over ...

to the death of Deputy White House Counsel

Vince Foster Vincent Walker Foster Jr. (January 15, 1945 – July 20, 1993) was an American attorney who served as deputy White House counsel during the first six months of the Clinton administration. Foster had been a partner at Rose Law Firm in Lit ...

. Foster's death was deemed a suicide by five official or governmental investigations. Davidson is an original investor and board member of the

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news site

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. In February 2010 he posted a video on the website AftershockProfits.com claiming that "supposed improvements" in the US economy during the Clinton administration were "faked by the government" and a "hoax."Hyperinflation for sale: Newsmax and Dick Morris cash in on anti-Obama rhetoric
''Media Matters'', April 26, 2010, Retrieved August 16, 2017

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