Nice article it’s good to hear jims view on the pound for once as he ussually talks about the dollar.

Jim Rogers is the greatest commodity trader of all-time.

If the UK pound is likely to go belly-up because of the UK’s declining oil stocks, what will happen to the Euro-sceptics’ (like me) pet hate, the euro? Will the euro’s weaker currencies - Ireland, Greece, Spain, Portugal, & Italy - “bomb right out of it”, because of the euro’s (until recently) strict anti-deficit financing rules? And if so, what future is there for the ultra-bureaucratic, anti-democratic, & ultra-interventionist & controlling EU? My view is hopefully no future at all, but what does Jim Rogers forecast about them - ie the euro & the EU?

Jim is super smart. He’s been right many times. However, if you had bought commodities, china stocks in the past several years you would have given back, perhaps all of the gains and some, if you had held onto to them. China stocks are down nearly 70% from their recent top taking you back to november 2007. Did we hear Jim telling the world to sell? His own Commodity Index was down 55% to 12/2008 taking you back to March 2004 level. Through these recent years you only heard him say BUY China, BUY commodities. Or BUY more if markets came back. You need to have a lot of cash to be averaging down in these two areas. If you had borrowed to buy, you would be in bankruptcy courts right now. Jim will be right eventually as inflation returns. All bear markets are followed by a bull market. Did I just anything really meaningful? sin-ming

Jim is good at spotting trends at the beginning…however, doesn’t seem to know when the top is. He has admitted that he cannot time the markets.

However, it is likely that gold and silver will be strong with all the computer digits the Fed is creating out of thin
air.

Jim Roger has the cutting edge data and info. on commodity and ability to process into opinion like what a weather man does. To take a coat ride on will not be easy as he wouldn’t tell when he takes his position or exist when things goes wrong in the commodity market. Jimmy, you does well in your tradesman. steve-malaysia

Regarding he United Kingdom , Jim Rogers does not know British history. It was in the UK that many of the finest products were manufactured - Morris minor cars , Jaguar, Austin Martin , Rover , Triumph motor bikes + household names like Kenwood. Wadkin Machinery and many many more that led the world in production, quality, innovation & good quality export products, and long before the Chinese , Koreans , Indians who now follow there example. The British will do that again.

Its true that we in the west lead the world for a long time. But the problem now is we are still living in the past. The brands like Jaguar and Rover are now Indian, not British. Many of the US and UK brands are now made in china, creating jobs there, without any real productivity other than consumption in the UK.

The next few deaces belong to the east which are working hard to catch up and will soon lead the way….

Look to the future…

I’ve been trying to email Jim Rogers Directly. I want to learn and work for him and move my Family to Singapore too. He is right the US will crash and don’t want to be around when it gets worse. I love what he does and how he lives his life and what he believes must happen to the Federal Reserve, IMF, and World Bank. These all need to be abolished and the elite wealthy behind them are very evil and have no interest for the best of all mankind. They just want to control everything and everyone.

If there is a way to confirm with Jim that I can call him or email him or have him call me at 707-689-0404 that would be awesome.

Sincerely,

Hubert Rotteveel
hubertrotteveel@yahoo.com

I have been “investing” in gold since 2002 and don’t think that I have beat any other kind of investment. With my awful timing, I’ve probably made less than 2%/yr. I’ve been listening to Rogers for well over a decade and value and respect his opinion (I really like the guy), but do I think that China and Asia are going to “take over”? No way…I spent 8 years living and working in Asia and that place only makes whatever the west gives them (Aside from Japan, Korea, and Taiwan). Their ONLY advantages are that they have a completely unregulated cheap labor force and a virtually unlimited supply of people. Why did Rogers move to Spore? Because it is an oasis in the middle of squalor. Sorry to say, but unless you are part of the military-industrial-political elite in Asia (2% of the population max), your life pretty much sucks. I would rather live in any recession/depression/collapse N. America or Europe than anywhere as a “common man” in Asia.

I’m tired of hearing China whine about their USD holdings. No one told them to buy the stupid bonds in the first place. Let’s see…they want the benefits of keeping their currency low by buying US bonds, but then don’t want the risk of holding them! Look dudes: interest rates are at historical lows..There is no direction for bond prices to go except for down! Or go buy Argentine/Chilean/Venezuelan paper and not just watch your money “devalue”, but completely disappear as they default/change governments every 5-10 years.