Bitcoin: Is This A Bubble?

Jim Rogers recently answered the million dollar question, are crypto currencies in a bubble? 

"There have been plenty of bubbles I have seen in my life but this one is a little strange, because at least when the dot-com bubble was around, those were companies that said they had a business. Even with the tulips (reached extraordinarily high levels and then dramatically collapsed in February 1637), supposedly they had a purpose and a use, I have never seen something quite like this."

Bullish On Japanese Stocks

I am still buying shares in Asia. China is down 40 percent from its all time highs, Japan is down 50 percent from its all time highs. The Japanese governent is doing everything it can to get stocks up.

Related trading instruments: iShares FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index ETF (FXI), iShares MSCI Japan ETF(EWJ), Nikkei 225 Index

Markets: Geopolitical Concerns

Before the First World War all sorts of changes started taking place which were revolutionary at the time. We weren't so revolutionary, we had a big war as a result and we're seeing a lot of changes like that take place again let's hope thre's not a war in a few years.

Video: Geopolitics, China and Markets

Jim Rogers talks geopolitics, the US - China relation and financial markets.

Why India Has't Done So Well As Other Countries

India used to be one of the great agricultural countries of the world. They have the weather, the soil the rain, the labor and everything else but the government in India protected the farmers. A farmer  cannot own more than 12 acres, that's for their own good, that's to protect them from the evil foreigners etc etc. 

How can somebody with 12 acres compete with an  Australian farmer that has 120,000 acres or a million acres? whatever They cannot compete with 12 acres but the Indian government is protecting all of those poor farmers like they protect many, many parts of Indian economy and that's one of the reasons why India has not done as well as China or other places.

Raising Interest Rates May Be The Catalyst For A Drop

It will be a catalyst or maybe the catalyst if that causes the stocks to finally go down. You know stocks have been going up for nine years, that's very unusual in in market history. It doesn't mean they can't go up 19 years without a correction but it's unusual so we're getting closer and closer.

What I said was we're going to have more economic problems and market problems, we've always had them so saying that we're going to have more economic problem it seems to me it's pretty much like saying, "well next next week it's going to rain", I mean it's the way the world works.

Related trading instruments: SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY), SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF (DIA), Nasdaq 100 Futures, Russell 2000 Index ETF (IWM)

Gold: I'm Waiting For It To Go Down

I'm not selling any of my gold. I'm not buying gold. I'm sitting and watching, I'm still waiting for gold to go down so that I can buy more. (SPDR Gold Trust ETF (GLD))