When I was in Oxford, when I was a kid, my professors used to say to me,
"What is wrong with you? Why are you so interested in the stock market?
The stock market is irrelevant, its totally irrelevant to the British
economy and to the world economy. Why do you waste your time and ours on
this?"
Now, of course, every kid in Oxford wants to have a hedge fund in his
dorm room. But that is a major change. In the sixties and in the
seventies, Wall Street was a backwater.
Jim 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).
