JIM ROGERS BLOG: 05/10/13

U.S Economy Enters a Black Hole

Jim Rogers appears on Russia Today, where he discusses China, the U.S and the Eurozone. He see's the U.S economy entering a "black hole". - Source, Russia Today:

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).

Countries Are in Serious Trouble

"I'm a little surprised it took Moody's so long to get around to lowering the credit rating. The UK, the US, and other countries are in serious trouble, and the world seems to know it. It's just the rating agencies that don't know it. "I suspect sterling will continue to go down in real terms against real assets." - Source, BBC:

Nobody is Paying Attention to the Debt

"I would start with the debt in the United States government. You might say “oh, they’re paying attention”, I would say balderdash. You know, my entire life I’ve heard congress talk about deficit spending, bemoan deficit spending, and talk about the debt. Back in the 1980s there was something called the Grace Commission, which was specially commissioned to study what to do about the deficit and the debt. And it passed laws, congress passed several laws since then, saying there will be no more deficit spending, or there will be no more debt, there will be no more, this will change, blah blah blah. And then they turn around and they ignore the laws. This has been going on for a long time. You might say people are paying attention, I would say that’s claptrap, they’re just talking, they have no intention of doing anything about it, and even if they “do something”, what they do is say “ok, instead of having increased spending, we’ll have less increase, we’ll still increase, it’ll just be less.” I mean, no, nobody’s paying attention to it." - Source, Investors Guide:

Most People Don't End Up Successful

“Most people don’t think for themselves. Most people just go along with whatever they see in the newspapers or the TV or whatever their friends or teachers say. That’s a terrible, terrible mistake because most of those people don’t wind up being terribly successful in life.” - Source, Smart Planet

Invest in What You Know

Nobody should invest in anything that they themselves don’t understand. So if I sat here and said you should do x, y, z, and people don’t have a clue what I’m talking about, they should probably ignore what I say or even what you say. Nobody should invest in something that they don’t understand. If you know nothing about gold except that it’s supposedly valuable, you shouldn’t buy it, or invest in anything you don’t know about. But once you know a lot about something, you will probably figure out some ways to protect yourself. I mean if you have your own business, like you, usually the best thing to invest in is your own business, because you know more about that than anything else. I have various ways that I’m trying to protect myself, but even if I told you I’m doing x, I might change my mind tomorrow afternoon, and then you would be stuck doing x because I said it. I’m not going to call you and tell you I changed my mind on that position. So people really need to invest in only what they themselves know a lot about. - Source, Investors Guide:

Gold: Long Term Outlook

"Certainly, over the course of ten years gold will go much, much higher because I don’t see any possibility that governments are going to stop printing money in the next decade. And as long as that’s going to happen then gold is certainly going to go higher and probably much higher." - in Morningstar UK

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).

Friday, May 10, 2013