Jim Rogers started trading the stock market with $600 in 1968.In 1973 he formed the Quantum Fund with the legendary investor George Soros before retiring, a multi millionaire at the age of 37. Rogers and Soros helped steer the fund to a miraculous 4,200% return over the 10 year span of the fund while the S&P 500 returned just 47%.

Monday, May 4, 2015

JIM ROGERS - Invest In Agriculture, Russia, North Korea & Other Up And Coming Markets






If North and South Korea unite, Japan will be faced with a huge new competitor, much more powerful a competitor than South Korea is right now. There will be a country of seventy-five to eighty million people right on the Chinese border, with lots of cheap, disciplined labor and natural resources in the north and lots of capital, expertise, and management capabilities in the south. Such a country would run circles around Japan. The cost of doing business in Japan is high and getting higher. Among other things, the Japanese do not have a lot of cheap labor anymore.

Japan is against unification for obvious reasons. I am not sure why America is against it, other than simple inertia. For American bureaucrats, who are intellectually lethargic, characteristically slow to change their thinking, a divided Korea is a way of life. Several thousand US soldiers are stationed in South Korea — it is something of an industry, and an entire bureaucracy subsists on the industry's continuity.

Where are the investment opportunities in North Korea? one might ask. I invest in markets, and there is no market there, so I would have to find companies, maybe Chinese or other Asian companies, that would benefit from the opening up of North Korea. I do not know of such companies right now. But North Korea is ripe for factories, hotels, restaurants, pretty much anything at this point. North Korea has nothing — no mobile phones, no Internet. Like Myanmar, the country lacks everything from the most basic goods and services to the highest technology. Yes, Myanmar has the Internet, but very little penetration. Yes, both countries have soap, but not nearly enough. Yes, both countries have electricity, but not nearly enough.

Tourism, I believe, presents investment opportunities in North Korea. There are only twenty-five million North Koreans, so there is not going to be a big boom in their traveling the world, business in marriage, because there is a huge shortage of girls in South Korea. South Korean men can look for wives in Los Angeles or Queens, but the main source of Korean brides is going to be North Korea. The north does not suffer from the demographic problem that plagues the South.
I am dying to find a way to invest in both North Korea and Myanmar. The major changes in these two countries are among the most exciting things I see right now, looking to the future. Jim Rogers has long criticized the Federal Reserve for excessive money printing and warned massive U.S. government deficits will ultimately cripple America's economy. Many people think of him primarily as a commodity bull and gold advocate. But Rogers is a trader above all else and is "delighted" by recent strength in the U.S. dollar safe haven For the record, Rogers does not believe the dollar is a 'safe haven' -- but "since people perceive it as a safe haven I own the U.S. dollar. Of course, if the U.S. central bank is a little tighter than some of the other people, that too will add to the strength of the dollar."

"The Chinese stock market is beginning to form a bubble" that could spread to Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore, while Japan "is printing so much money" a bubble

Indeed, Rogers predicts "gold going to end in a bubble during this period of economic history" but, for now, the famed investor is avoiding the metal and even hedging some of his holdings. "It's having a big correction that's going to last for some time," Rogers says of gold. if gold goes below $1000 I hope I"m smart enough to buy a lot." Unfortunately, what’s happening is certainly not good for the United States. It’s driving Russia and Asia together, which means we’re going to suffer in the long run - the US and Europe. Another of the big four Chinese banks opened a branch in Moscow recently. The Iranians are getting closer to the Russians. The Russians recently finished a railroad into North Korea down to the Port Rason, which is the northernmost ice-free port in Asia. The Russians have put a lot of money into the Trans-Siberian railroad to update it and upgrade it, all of which goes right by China.







Jim Rogers started trading the stock market with $600 in 1968.In 1973 he formed the Quantum Fund with the legendary investor George Soros before retiring, a multi millionaire at the age of 37. Rogers and Soros helped steer the fund to a miraculous 4,200% return over the 10 year span of the fund while the S&P 500 returned just 47%.

1 comment:

  1. Wanshan hao mr jim in singapore
    the list of economics are >
    2015 year today ...
    N1 is Singapore
    N2 is South Korea
    N3 is Nazzi Germany
    and x x x x number 11 is USA
    and bla bla bla ...
    I am listening only you
    *Only Jim Knows how it goes*
    xie xie mr jim
    zaijian

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Jim Rogers "the 19th century was the century of the UK , the 20th century was the century of the US , the 21 st century is going to be the century of China "
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