Comments on: Jim Rogers Bloomberg Interview July 22,2009

By: Travis

Travis — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:37:22 +0000

I really like Jim Rogers but I must say that he is wrong about inflation. We didn’t have inflation in The Great Depression and Japan didn’t go through inflation but deflation. Isn’t the whole point of a depression so the feds will be able to get all their shit back for pennies on the dollar!?

Maybe he has a bias because his love for ~commodities~.

By: Mac

Mac — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:44:49 +0000

His comments on China are interesting. I am certainly not getting in front of the bus with buying China right now.

Long-term, China seems great. But it is a matter of time before they get creamed. China stimulus moved into the Chinese stock markets via retail investors and banks, just like in the US. It is a bubble right now and it’s going to pop.

A 70%+ increase in less than a year is a dangerous game to be entering right now. I really appreciate the fact the Mr. Rogers pointed out the short-term risks here. Faber said something similar about a week ago on CNBC — that a Chinese correction is likely.

When capital starts seeking safety and preservation as opposed to obscene profits, we will see it shift back — get this — into the US Dollar! (Temporarily of course)…

Beware the rise of the dollar — it will crush global financial markets when it happens. NExt week should be quite interesting, with $250 Billion in Treasury sales… Any guesses where the money to buy those treasuries will come from? I could be wrong, but I think retail investors are about to get screwed after this 8 day, 10% winning streak.

IMO.

Mac

By: Sherman McCoy

Sherman McCoy — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:40:12 +0000

I like Jim. What’s his agenda? Fame? Fortune? Selling books? A need to be remembered as more than Soros’s sidekick in the 70′s? You’ll never hear about his disasterous calls like shorting Intel in 1996. Any curmudgeon who can marry someone half his age is my hero, but really, what’s up with the broken record thing? Commodities are down 75% last I looked with the CRB printing new lows. Seen ag futures lately? RJA? Hello? Whatever happened to that call? How about debating a Deflationist? How about an intelligent discussion on how not to get killed by contango?

By: ErnieK

ErnieK — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 06:29:50 +0000

I’d rather be “bored” and listen to Jim who has been consistently right for several years. He gives logical, common-sense explanations of events, without using econo-babble terms. The alternative — the propaganda of the US government & news media — has painted a consistently incorrect picture & made consistently wrong predictions, plus they generate phoney statistics.

By: AlexG

AlexG — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:38:09 +0000

Why do you want someone who will continue to change their mind? Jim has been on commodities since the 90′s, I don’t see anything wrong with that

By: Stefan

Stefan — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:33:54 +0000

why is he even still going on these shows?
they could just as well play some old clips, he’s going to say the same thing over and over again anyway.