Investing: Learn To Be A Little More Attentive

If people learn to be a little more attentive to what they see they might wind up making investments and they might be successful.

Personal Finance: One of The Best Things I Can Tell You

One of the best things I can tell you is do not have a lot of debt and try to stay away from people that have a lot of debt.

Podcast: Inside The Markets with Jim Rogers

Inside The Markets, podcast with Jim Rogers (20 min)

Topics: 

- the recent U.S. stock market volatility;
- the U.S. stock market has probably made a complicated top;
- the effect of rising interest rates on real estate, stocks;
- the debt situation is out of control;

Related trading instruments: SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF (DIA), SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY), Nasdaq 100 Futures;

Video: The Big Story - Venezuela

Real Vision documentary on Venezuela.

Mr. Rogers recently commented on Venezuela's current and future prospects and you can read that article here: Venezuela: Exciting Things Are Happening

Gold: Where To Buy

If and when gold goes under $1,000 an ounce my plan is to buy a lot of gold. I haven't bought any serious gold since 2010.

Related trading instruments: 

• SPDR Gold Trust ETF (GLD) 
• Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF (GDX) 

Commodities Will Outperform Stocks Going Forward

Jim Rogers explained to Commodity Trade Mantra the reasons why he thinks commodities will likely perform better than stocks in the future. You can read the article here: Commodities Are Going To Do Better Than Stocks – Write It Down Says Jim Rogers

Related trading instruments: 

• PowerShares DB Agriculture Fund (DBA)
• United States Oil Fund LP ETF (USO)
• Nymex Copper Futures
• Nymex Crude Oil futures

Ananti Appoints Jim Rogers As A Non-Executive Director

Ananti, a Korean resort developer, announced that the company has appointed Jim Rogers as a non-executive director. You can read the full story on The Korea Herald here: Ananti shares soar on Jim Rogers’ appointment

Rogers Draws Parallels With 1930s Collapse of World Economy

In this recent interview with Nikkei Asian Review, Jim Rogers draws a parallel between the current trade war situation and the collapse of the world economy in the 1930s. Read the interview here: US and China risk full-fledged trade war as Trump sees he can win

Markets: I Own Russian Shares, Bonds

“China’s down 60 percent from its all-time high. Japan’s down 50 percent... Russia is hated – I own Russian shares; I own Russian bonds; I own the currency.” - Jim Rogers, in Money Week

Related trading instruments:

• Market Vector Russia ETF Trust (RSX)

Commodities Will Do Better Than Stocks

“It is the time to buy commodities again. I would say to you, write it down – commodities are going to do better than stocks.” - Jim Rogers (in Money Week)

Related trading instruments: 

• SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY)
• SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF (DIA)
• United States Oil Fund LP ETF (USO)
• PowerShares DB Agriculture Fund (DBA)

Markets: Trade War, Pollution Control and Marijuana Stocks

Read Jim Rogers most recent interview on Nikkei Asian Review here: US and China risk full-fledged trade war as Trump sees he can win

Topics: 

- Trade war
- China/ US tensions
- Investment themes: pollution control and marijuana stocks

 "Trump, in his brain, thinks he can win a trade war and that a trade war is good for him." 
- Jim Rogers, Nikkei Asian Review (December 2018)

A Trade War May Lead To A Real War

Historically trade wars have always been a disaster. Nobody's ever won a trade war, history is very clear about the effects of trade wars.

Now, I don't know if President Trump knows history or cares. He thinks he's smarter than history, maybe he is, I don't know. But nobody's ever been smarter than trade wars and trade wars frequently or often have led to real wars.

Crude Oil: Making A Complicated Bottom

Oil reserves peaked sometime ago except for fracking. Fracking came along turned into a bubble that bubble has popped now but that caused a glut of oil for a while.

Crude oil is in the process of making a complicated bottom. We'll look back in a few years and say in 2015-2019 crude oil made its bottom. It will go higher because reserves are declining everywhere in the world except fracking but that bubble the fracking bubble broke.

Commodities Will Outperform Stocks

In this article, Mr. Rogers explains why commodities will likely outperform stocks going forward: Commodities Are Going To Do Better Than Stocks – Write It Down Says Jim Rogers

“Sugar, believe it or not, is down something like 80% from its all-time high. [T]here’s not much in the world, in life, that’s down 80% over the past 40 years.” 

Jim Rogers on Money Week

Read the latest article about Jim Rogers on Money Week here: Jim Rogers: what to buy now (Moneyweek.com)

Mr. Rogers latest insights include comments about emerging markets like Zimbabwe and about the current state of financial markets worldwide. 

Venezuela: Exciting Things Are Happening

Exciting things are happening in Venezuela right now. They're always places in the world that are turning the corner. When you read the headlines you must learn to look beyond the headlines to see what's really happening. 

Venezuela is a horrible disaster. It's one of the worst disasters in the history of mankind, yes. But they know it too now. They're smart enough to know that they've made many mistakes and they're starting to change. They now have removed exchange controls. Unbelievable for a country like Venezuela! They're starting to try to figure out, "Oh my gosh what do we do next?" That's when you buy. You find a country that's at the bottom when changes are starting to take place. At times Venezuela has been one of the richest countries in the Western Hemisphere and it will be again.