Yield Curve & Recession

We are getting overdue for something to happen and the yield curve maybe telling us, "Hey guys, it's coming again!" But the yield curve also is not a short-term signal it only says a few weeks or months later something is going to happen.

The Longest Bull Market In American History

It's been over 10 years since we've had a financial problem in the United States and that's the longest in American history. It doesn't mean it has to end, it can go on for 20 years, who knows. But it is the longest bull market we've had in American history and also the longest economic good times we've had in American history. So, we are getting overdue for something to happen.

The Meaning of Inverted Yield Curves

I know what history says that when they invert and when they stay inverted it usually means that a few weeks or months later we're going to have problems. I don't see any reason that's changed. People always say it's different this time but it's rarely really different this time. So, I'm watching but I have not acted because of it yet.

Related trading instruments: SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY), SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF (DIA), iShares Barclays 20+ Yr Treas.Bond ETF (TLT), iShares Barclays 7-10 Year Treasury Bond Fund (IEF)

Zimbabwe: I Bought A Few Stocks Recently

I bought a few shares in Zimbabwe recently. Not much, just to get me to remember Zimbabwe. You know, 50 years ago Zimbabwe was one of the richest countries in the British Commonwealth. It's been totally destroyed totally destroyed by a crazy dictator over the next 37 years. But it is a great opportunity now.

Related trading rockers: iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index ETF (EEM)

Jim Rogers: Recent Interview & Podcast

A recent article on The Korean Times featuring Jim Rogers: 'Jim Rogers can be used to restart inter-Korean projects'

Jim Rogers was a guest on the Futures Radio Show podcast and you can listen to the full interview here: "Investing in the Real World – Jim Rogers"

Korea: Tourism Is Going To Be Great

There's no stock market in North Korea, no market in the traditional sense but I'm very excited about the future of the Korean Peninsula. They don't have anything. Communism destroys everything. They don't have electricity, they don't have suits, they don't have chairs... 

Tourism is going to be great. Korea has not been on the tourist map. If people are sitting around in Europe thinking about where am I gonna go in Asia, I think of Japan, China, Bali, they don't think of Korea for historic reasons. But now people are going to start thinking about going to Korea.

Video Interview: Wiener Börse Insights - Talk with Jim Rogers

CEO Christoph Boschan and Jim Rogers, who jointly invented Quantum Funds together with George Soros in the early 1970s and became a national capital market hero when we woke up the Vienna Stock Exchange in 1985, in a spontaneous interview. Watch the video interview here, Wiener Börse Insights - Talk with Jim Rogers.