Here’s why Jim Rogers is bullish on Asia

Jim Rogers is bullish on Asia. In a twenty-minute interview with the BBC, he explains why? Hat tip Paul Kedrosky. Like Paul, “I find many of his rhetorical tricks maddening” but it is an informative interview nonetheless. Videos below

What does Jim Rogers think about the silver crash?

“I hope that silver goes down for a while because it was turning into a parabolic move, every parabolic move ends badly, I hope that silver and all commodities continue to go up with normal corrections along the way and in 5 or 10 years, they’re going to be unbelievably high prices and then I hope I’m smart enough to sell if the bull market is coming to an end.”

-Jim Rogers, on CNBC this morning before the rout

Jim Rogers: expect a double dip by 2012

China and commodities bull Jim Rogers thinks the economy is going to eventually run out of gas by 2012. While he doesn’t call this a double dip, he does say that “the next time it’s going to be worse because we’ve shot all of our bullets.” With zero interest rates and huge government deficits all

More from Chanos on the Chinese property bubble

Given my post on Jim Rogers’ doubting Chanos’ knowledge about China, I thought it appropriate to post the latest Chanos interview on the China property bubble.  This call by Chanos is really setting us up for some seriously entrenched camps of pro-China bulls (like Rogers)against China sceptics (like Chanos, but also like Andy Xie). Is

Rogers: Chanos “couldn’t spell China 10 years ago”

No he didn’t.  Jim Rogers, the bow-tie wearing Quantum Fund co-founder and Sino-enthusiast, has recently implied Jim Chanos doesn’t know China from a hole in the ground. Rogers is not happy about the recent bearish pronouncements coming from Enron-slayer and famed short-seller Jim Chanos.  In what looks to be a rumble in the jungle of 

Jim Rogers is still bullish on commodities

Hat tip gaius marius. Rogers is not just bullish on agricultural commodities. He is bullish on oil too. Rogers says: Over the next decade or so, oil is going to go much, much, much higher because known reserves are declining at a very rapid rate. As for agricultural commodities, he’s talking about severe shortages of

Rogers: Bail on the dollar and equities

Not to go all bearish on you here, but I do think it is significant that a number of market pros are coming out of hiding and predicting some major turmoil.  The latest in this group is Jim Rogers.  He thinks we are about to have a serious currency crisis, with the U.S. dollar tanking

Chart of the day: Japanese Yen

Although off its highs for the day, the Japanese Yen is still looking very strong against every major currency. Earlier, it pushed as high as 92 yen to the dollar. Jim Rogers was on Bloomberg saying it was headed much higher

Jim Rogers: Called Freddie and Fannie a ‘disaster’ two months ago

The finance and investing website Money Morning has a very provocative piece om Jim Rogers today. Rogers, who has been railing against the bailout of Fannie and Freddie for some time, thinks the Treasury and Federal Reserve will fail in their attempts to reflate the U.S. economy. He goes into great detail in his interview