I Am Short The American Market

I am short the American market but not as big now as I was short in 1987. And if something like that happens again in America which it might well, hopefully I will get it right.

Related: SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY), SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF (DIA)

Jim Rogers is a legendary investor that co-founded the Quantum Fund and retired at age thirty-seven. He is the author of several investing books and also a renowned financial commentator worldwide famous for his contrarian views on financial markets.

Traders Are Good For The Markets

Traders are good for the markets because they add liquidity and in all markets the more liquidity the better. Is it an honorable profession? Of course it is. The more traders the better, the more instruments the better.

Jim Rogers is a legendary investor that co-founded the Quantum Fund and retired at age thirty-seven. He is the author of several investing books and also a renowned financial commentator worldwide famous for his contrarian views on financial markets.

Markets: Countries Where I Am Looking To Invest

Countries where I am looking to invest are Kazakhstan, Iran, Nigeria. These are countries where good things are happening. Colombia, I have some small investments in Colombia.

I would like to invest in North Korea but its difficult for me because I am an American.

There are some good things happening out there.

Related exchange traded funds: iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index ETF (EEM)

Jim Rogers is a legendary investor that co-founded the Quantum Fund and retired at age thirty-seven. He is the author of several investing books and also a renowned financial commentator worldwide famous for his contrarian views on financial markets.

Some Countries Are Already In A Recession

I assure you there will be a recession. Some places are already in recession, Japan is already in recess. It`s here. People who do not think there will be a recession, look out the window. Many countries and many sectors are already having recessions.

Related trading: iShares MSCI Japan ETF(EWJ)

Jim Rogers is a legendary investor that co-founded the Quantum Fund and retired at age thirty-seven. He is the author of several investing books and also a renowned financial commentator worldwide famous for his contrarian views on financial markets.

How To Invest: Buy Low, Sell High

Buy low and sell high. If you can find things that are cheap where there is positive change taking place, chances are you will make a lot of money.

Jim Rogers is a legendary investor that co-founded the Quantum Fund and retired at age thirty-seven. He is the author of several investing books and also a renowned financial commentator worldwide famous for his contrarian views on financial markets.

Commodities Will Trade Higher For A While

I suspect are making a bottom, a complicated bottom for most commodities and they will be going higher for a while. (United States Oil Fund LP ETF (USO), PowerShares DB Agriculture Fund (DBA))

Jim Rogers is a legendary investor that co-founded the Quantum Fund and retired at age thirty-seven. He is the author of several investing books and also a renowned financial commentator worldwide famous for his contrarian views on financial markets.

China No Longer Able To Fuel World Growth Like It Did In 2008 Economic Crisis

China will not be able to help us much this time as it did last time. Who is going to do the heavy lifting? Be worried and be prepared. There is nobody left.

Central banks are going to print as much as they can, the governments in the U.S. and other places are going to spend as much as they can but eventually the market is going to say, "We do not want your garbage anymore. You are printing all this paper money, you are putting out all these bonds. No. We are not going to take it anymore."

Exchange Traded Funds: iShares FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index ETF (FXI), iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index ETF (EEM), SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY), SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF (DIA)

Jim Rogers is a legendary investor that co-founded the Quantum Fund and retired at age thirty-seven. He is the author of several investing books and also a renowned financial commentator worldwide famous for his contrarian views on financial markets.

U.S. Dollar: Intellectually & Economically Indefensible

I own the U.S. Dollar right now even though it is intellectually and economically indefensible but unfortunately most things are indefensible too now and that is why I own U.S. Dollars.

Jim Rogers is a legendary investor that co-founded the Quantum Fund and retired at age thirty-seven. He is the author of several investing books and also a renowned financial commentator worldwide famous for his contrarian views on financial markets.

Why Is America In Decline?

There are many reasons obviously. The nation peaked and then gone into decline but perhaps the main reason right now if I had to point my finger on one thing it would be the debt in America.

Every nation in the world history that has got itself into such a debt situation suffered. America is now the largest debtor nation in the history of the world and its getting worse every day. When you have a lot of debt it is hard to grow in a dynamic and dramatic fashion.

Jim Rogers is a legendary investor that co-founded the Quantum Fund and retired at age thirty-seven. He is the author of several investing books and also a renowned financial commentator worldwide famous for his contrarian views on financial markets.

Crude Oil: Know Reserves Have Been Declining

Know reserves of oil have been declining all over the world for several years except for fracking but fracking cannot make money , they need to have very high prices and of course fracking does not work everywhere. Unless something happens we are going to have a hydrocarbon crisis sometime in the next century. (Energy Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLE), United States Oil Fund LP ETF (USO), Nymex Crude Oil futures)

Jim Rogers is a legendary investor that co-founded the Quantum Fund and retired at age thirty-seven. He is the author of several investing books and also a renowned financial commentator worldwide famous for his contrarian views on financial markets.

Trump, Sanders: A Sign Of Difficult Times

Whenever there are difficult times, somebody rises. A man, a white horse, a dictator, whatever you want to call it. Whenever you have serious problems you have new and strange people. So this is not unusual.

Jim Rogers is a legendary investor that co-founded the Quantum Fund and retired at age thirty-seven. He is the author of several investing books and also a renowned financial commentator worldwide famous for his contrarian views on financial markets.

U.S. Dollar: Its Correcting But It Will Go Up Again

The U.S. Dollar has been a very strong currency for 2 or 3 years. It is having a correction now but as the turmoil comes back you will see the dollar go up again.

Jim Rogers is a legendary investor that co-founded the Quantum Fund and retired at age thirty-seven. He is the author of several investing books and also a renowned financial commentator worldwide famous for his contrarian views on financial markets.

We Are Going To Have A Financial Crisis In The Next 2 Or 3 years

Write it down, we are all going to have a financial crisis sometime in the next 2 or 3 years. (iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index ETF (EEM), SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF (DIA), SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY), Dax Index, iShares NASDAQ Biotechnology Index ETF (IBB))

Jim Rogers is a legendary investor that co-founded the Quantum Fund and retired at age thirty-seven. He is the author of several investing books and also a renowned financial commentator worldwide famous for his contrarian views on financial markets.

Central Banks Have Gone Nuts

They have gone nuts. They think that they are saving us but what they are doing is leading to the eventual destruction of us. (SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF (DIA), SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY), SPDR Gold Trust ETF (GLD))

Jim Rogers is a legendary investor that co-founded the Quantum Fund and retired at age thirty-seven. He is the author of several investing books and also a renowned financial commentator worldwide famous for his contrarian views on financial markets.

China: Speculative Frenzy In Commodity Futures

Read the most recent article on how China is trying to cool the trading frenzy in the commodities markets:  Jim Rogers says China right to cool trading frenzy

The new Chinese commodity futures have been heavily traded with average holding periods of just a couple of hours, signs of a speculative frenzy.

Jim Rogers is a legendary investor that co-founded the Quantum Fund and retired at age thirty-seven. He is the author of several investing books and also a renowned financial commentator worldwide famous for his contrarian views on financial markets.

Governments Around The World Are Reducing Their U.S. Treasuries Holdings

Many foreign governments are reducing their holdings of U.S. Treasuries, of U.S. government bonds. That is wise. (iShares Barclays 20+ Yr Treas.Bond ETF (TLT), iShares Barclays 7-10 Year Treasury Bond Fund (IEF))

Jim Rogers is a legendary investor that co-founded the Quantum Fund and retired at age thirty-seven. He is the author of several investing books and also a renowned financial commentator worldwide famous for his contrarian views on financial markets.

U.S. Stock market: Most Stocks Are Already Going Down

Most stocks are going down in the United States so the signs are already there. But they are not making headlines, they are not visible but it is already happening. Some parts of the U.S. economy are in recession and in the stock market most stocks have been going down. (SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY), SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF (DIA), iShares NASDAQ Biotechnology Index ETF (IBB), Nasdaq 100 Futures, Apple (AAPL))

Jim Rogers is a legendary investor that co-founded the Quantum Fund and retired at age thirty-seven. He is the author of several investing books and also a renowned financial commentator worldwide famous for his contrarian views on financial markets.

Markets: Paper Currencies, Real Assets & Agricultural Land

As long as paper currencies are being debased, you are going to need real assets. I do not own agricultural land but it might make sense to buy it now and in fact it is one of the few assets that I would consider buying now. (SPDR Gold Trust ETF (GLD), iShares Silver Trust ETF (SLV), PowerShares DB Agriculture Fund (DBA))

Jim Rogers is a legendary investor that co-founded the Quantum Fund and retired at age thirty-seven. He is the author of several investing books and also a renowned financial commentator worldwide famous for his contrarian views on financial markets.

Gold: This Is Not The End Of The Correction

I am not buying gold right now. Gold has rallied four times over the past 3 years, by around fifteen to twenty percent. I am not adding to gold on this run.

Gold bulls will say that the worst is now over but in my view this is not the end of the correction. (SPDR Gold Trust ETF (GLD), Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF (GDX))

Jim Rogers is a legendary investor that co-founded the Quantum Fund and retired at age thirty-seven. He is the author of several investing books and also a renowned financial commentator worldwide famous for his contrarian views on financial markets.

The Central Bankers Are Going To Fail

In the end, the central bankers are going to fail because the market has more money than they do. At some point, the market is going to say, we don’t want any more of your paper.

In the meantime, politicians will say, do not worry, we will save you and there will be some market rallies along the way.

But this time it will be too much, and too late. By 2017 there will be disaster everywhere. (SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY), SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF (DIA), iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index ETF (EEM))

Jim Rogers is a legendary investor that co-founded the Quantum Fund and retired at age thirty-seven. He is the author of several investing books and also a renowned financial commentator worldwide famous for his contrarian views on financial markets.

Next Time We Have A Problem It Is Going To Be Worse Than 2008

We had a problem in 2008 because the debt was very high. Now the debt is much, much higher all over the world. Next time we have a problem it is going to be worse than 2008. You should be very worried, you should be very knowledgeable, and you get prepared.

Jim Rogers is a legendary investor that co-founded the Quantum Fund and retired at age thirty-seven. He is the author of several investing books and also a renowned financial commentator worldwide famous for his contrarian views on financial markets.