Jim Rogers speaks at the Agora Financial Investment Symposium in Vancouver

Bill Bonner, writing for The Daily Reckoning reports: ‘China is the next great country,’ says our old friend Jim Rogers to the Agora Financial Investment Symposium crowd. ‘Of course, there will be setbacks, just as there were in the growth the United States. We had crashes on Wall Street and even a Civil War. But [...]

Video: Jim Rogers interview with Telegraph.co.uk – July 18, 2008

I’m convinced that Asia is the wave of the future. – Jim Rogers LINK TO FULL VIDEO: telegraph.co.uk

Rogers says he would ‘think twice’ before investing in India

George Iype, writing for Commodity Online reports: Rogers may be hot on China; but when he talks about India, the legendary investor gets cold feet. “I am excited about India as a travel destination. For an investment proposition in India, I would think twice,” he said. LINK TO FULL ARTICLE: commodityonline.com

Rogers says Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are ‘basically insolvent’ (Transcript)

In a bloomberg.com interview today, Jim Rogers said that Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are ‘basically insolvent’. He also said that if the financials rally he will ’short some more’. LINK TO FULL ARTICLE: bloomberg.com

Jim Rogers says stories of oil speculation are ‘not correct’

George Iype, writing for Commodity Online reports: Investing legend and commodities guru Jim Rogers says crude oil prices have been going up thanks to an unprecedented demand-supply mismatch. He said those who blame speculators for oil price surge do not understand the oil reality in the world. Talking to Commodity Online, Rogers, who founded the [...]

Rogers blames oil prices on declining reserves

news.xinhuanet.com reports: U.S. investor Jim Rogers has said that the decline in known oil reserves across the world is the main reason behind the skyrocketing oil prices that have already topped 145 U.S. dollars a barrel. While admitting that factors driving up oil prices are various, Rogers insisted that short oil supply was the fundamental [...]

Rogers tells Shanghai investment club to avoid the dollar ‘at all costs’

Zhang Shidong, writing for Bloomberg.com, reports: Avoid the dollar “at all costs,” Rogers said at the opening of an investment club in Shanghai today. “Agricultural prices have much higher to go over the next decade. We have a shortage of everything including seeds.” LINK TO FULL ARTICLE: Bloomberg.com

Rogers hasn’t given up on China

Zhao Yidi, writing for Bloomberg.com, reports: Jim Rogers, who in April 2006 correctly predicted oil would reach $100 a barrel and gold $1,000 an ounce, told investors not to “give up” on Chinese shares after the country’s stock index fell almost 50 percent this year. “Start buying when others say `never again’,” Rogers, 65, said [...]

Jim Rogers still avoiding American stocks

Dan Dorfman, writing for The New York Sun, reports: Mr. Rogers…told me the other day in an interview: “I wouldn’t buy an American stock.” Even scarier, he says he expects a further collapse in leading American bank stocks, to less than $10 to $15 a share, because “bank balance sheets remain loaded with garbage that [...]

IndexUniverse.com on the new Rogers Van Eck index family

Heather Bell, writing for IndexUniverse.com, reports: Commodities expert (and the creator of his own family of widely followed commodities indexes) Jim Rogers and Van Eck Global have teamed up to create what appears to be the first comprehensive global index of hard assets producers. There already are sector indexes, of course, that cover commodities producers [...]