“If you want to buy a stock, you have to invest in the right company, you’ve got to worry about management, balance sheets, environmentalist unions, politicians, and 100 other things… But when you invest in commodities, there’s too much that’s going to go up, and too little that’s going to go down, and vice-versa.”
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“Someday there will be 10,000 mutual funds that trade commodities. On Park Avenue, wives won’t talk about flipping real estate. They’ll be talking about soybeans and pork belly futures.”
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Today, iTulip.com’s President Eric Janszen interviewed investor James Rogers to hear what Rogers thinks of Warren Buffett’s comments to annual Berkshire Hathaway shareholders Saturday on commodities and to get an update on the progress of what he views as the early stages of a long term bull market in commodities.
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Jim Rogers discusses the global economy and his book “Hot Commodities”.
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Rogers is so dedicated to getting, as he says, “the straight skinny” on foreign markets that he decided in 1999 to travel around the world to experience them firsthand, a journey documented in the 2003 book “Adventure Capitalist: The Ultimate Investor’s Road Trip.” Actually, this was Rogers’ second circumnavigation of the planet (his first was made on a motorcycle more than a decade ago and chronicled in 1991’s “Investment Biker”) — and this time, he traveled in style. The 60-year-old Rogers got himself a custom-built sunburst-yellow 4×4 Mercedes convertible, and then hitched a trailer full of creature comforts to the back. He even invited a team of cameramen along to film the trip.
LINK TO FULL ARTICLE: smartmoney.com
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