Jim Rogers
Jim Rogers
James Beeland "Jim" Rogers, Jr.is an American businessman, investor and author. He is currently based in Singapore. Rogers is the Chairman of Rogers Holdings and Beeland Interests, Inc. He was the co-founder of the Quantum Fund and creator of the Rogers International Commodities Index...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth19 October 1942
CountryUnited States of America
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If you bail out every investment bank that gets in trouble, that's not capitalism, that's socialism for the rich
christian people levels
When things go wrong on a macroeconomic level, it's almost always this way. People find someone to blame, whether it's blacks, whites, Christians, Jews, Muslims-whoever.
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Do not buy the hype from Wall St. and the press that stocks always go up. There are long periods when stocks do nothing and other investments are better.
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Get inside information from the president and you will probably lose half of your money. If you get it from the chairman of the board, you will lose all of it.
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Without giving specific names, most of the significant American banks, the larger banks, are bankrupt, totally bankrupt,
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Tough times helped many commodities traders become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped up.
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Commodities tend to zig when the equity markets zag.
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You don't train for only the 100-meter dash and you don't practice only the excerpts. When I prepared for auditions, I spent most of my time each day on scales and exercises to be my best in basic musicianship, and only a half-hour or so on the actual excerpts I'd be playing.
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For instance, I used to trade Malaysian palm oil. But Malaysia, back in 1998, restricted the currency, and made it very difficult to buy and sell palm oil.
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It's a magnificent animal. Hunt it, but show it some respect.
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Research has shown that it's extremely unusual to find more than one infected animal in a herd, especially in a country where the disease has as low a prevalence as it does in the U.S.. Plus there are food safety measures taken at the time of slaughter that are designed to prevent potentially contaminated material from entering the food chain.