nJim Rogers is a bestselling author, financial commentator and successful international investor. Rogers was a co-founder of the Quantum Fund (considered to be the first truly international fund of its kind) and is the creator of the Rogers International Commodities Index (RICI).
Jim Rogers graduated from Yale University and has a degree in philosophy, politics and economics from Oxford University. Jimmy Rogers became a Wall street legend when he and George Soros founded the Quantum Fund.After his career as a hedge fund manager and investor,Jim Rogers now periodically teaches finance at Columbia University, and appears regularly on the CNBC Cable Network.
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Will Catalonia Secede from Spain?
Jim Rogers : I wrote a book once called Investment Biker and in that book I made the point that I know of no country in history, in the world as we know it, that has lasted as long as 200 years with the same borders or the same government.
So, it would be normal if more countries continue to break up. We had at least 10 or 12 countries breaking up in the past decade or two. Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Ethiopia and Eritrea, Sudan recently, Soviet Union. You had a lot of countries breaking up and that is going to continue. That is the way it has been through out history. - in a recent interview
