Jim Rogers on Japan tax free investing impact

Jim Rogers on Japan's new tax free investment accounts.

"I’ve been investing a long time, and every time a country does that, people invest"

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Jim Rogers is a investor who co-founded the Quantum Fund with George Soros in 1973. By 1983 the fund gained more than 4000 percent.

Abenomics goes not equal good economics

In twenty years people will look back and say, ‘My God, what happened to Japan?’ It is all going to go back to Abenomics.

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Jim Rogers is a investor who co-founded the Quantum Fund with George Soros in 1973. By 1983 the fund gained more than 4000 percent.

Natural gas better value for money right now than oil

If I had to buy something in the energy sector, I would buy natural gas, not oil, because natural gas is down so much. It has been very strong over the last month or so, be careful. If it undergoes proper correction and if I had to buy energy, I would buy natural gas, not oil.

The surprise will be how high the price of energy stays and how high it eventually goes, because we are running out of known reserves of energy, oil and gas all over the world. Yes, we have these pockets that pop up every once in a while, like shale oil at the moment, but known reserves worldwide continue to decline.

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Jim Rogers is a investor who co-founded the Quantum Fund with George Soros in 1973. By 1983 the fund gained more than 4000 percent.

Metals overdue for a rally

There are huge shorts that have developed in precious metals, as you know. So it is overdue for a rally. We had a big drop in 2013 and everybody got negative and short. So we are going to have a rally, though I do not think too much of the rally. I am not going to buy or sell on that rally, though. I expect that later in the year, things will go down again and hopefully we will make a nice bottom eventually and we can buy gold again.

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Jim Rogers is a investor who co-founded the Quantum Fund with George Soros in 1973. By 1983 the fund gained more than 4000 percent.

Base metals have been punished

I had bought some base metal indices [few weeks ago or so back]. It seems to me that it is time for a rally. As all the major economies continue to develop, base metals prices have been bashed very badly. I would be buying base metals; not would be, in fact, I have bought.

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Jim Rogers is a investor who co-founded the Quantum Fund with George Soros in 1973. By 1983 the fund gained more than 4000 percent.

Gold to rally a bit and then fall down this year to create a bottom

There are huge shorts that have developed in precious metals as you know. So they are overdue for a rally. We have had a big drop in 2013 and everybody got negative and everybody got short.

So we are going to have a rally, though not too much of the rally. I am not going to either buy or sell that rally, but there will certainly be a rally.

Later in the year, things will go down again and hopefully finally, we will make a nice bottom and we can buy gold again. I would prefer silver to gold. I am not buying either at the moment. Silver is down 60% from its all-time high and gold is down 30% or 35% from its all-time high. 

However, I am not going to buy either at the moment.

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Jim Rogers is a investor who co-founded the Quantum Fund with George Soros in 1973. By 1983 the fund gained more than 4000 percent.

Water investments risky

When problems [in water investments] come they will hang you in the public square, but if you can solve the water problem they will build a monument to you in Hyde Park.

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Jim Rogers is a investor who co-founded the Quantum Fund with George Soros in 1973. By 1983 the fund gained more than 4000 percent.

Jim Rogers Hangouts talk on investing

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Jim Rogers is a investor who co-founded the Quantum Fund with George Soros in 1973. By 1983 the fund gained more than 4000 percent.

Stocks can goto Zero but commodities wont

The price of a commodity will never go to zero. When you invest in commodities futures, you're not buying a piece of paper that says you own an intangible piece of company that can go bankrupt.


Jim Rogers is a investor who co-founded the Quantum Fund with George Soros in 1973. By 1983 the fund gained more than 4000%.

Black market and bullish in Korea

It is not easy to find where to invest because of North Korea’s industrial structure, such as a lack of capital market and its state-run system. 

Kim with wife

I am bullish on North Korea just because it is cheap. There's virtually no way for me as an American, especially, to invest there, but if I could I'll put all of my money there. 

I am trying to find some of the Chinese companies that are investing there. They are putting a lot of money into the North. There is a black market there now; and the Russians have just opened a railway.

I'm extremely excited and optimistic about what's happening in North Korea. 

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Jim Rogers is a investor who co-founded the Quantum Fund with George Soros in 1973. By 1983 the fund gained more than 4000 percent.

Jim Rogers: Bullish case to buy Thailand and civil unrest

Thailand has had dozens of coups in the last few decades, but they always start up again. Buying during the coups and during civil unrest has usually been profitable. But always in the past, it has been good to buy when there’s been civil unrest and/or a coup.

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Jim Rogers is a investor who co-founded the Quantum Fund with George Soros in 1973. By 1983 the fund gained more than 4000 percent.

Jim Rogers worries about Japan population

If the current birth rate, which is the lowest in the major developed countries, continues, there will be no Japanese. Who will pay the enormous debt?


Jim Rogers is a investor who co-founded the Quantum Fund with George Soros in 1973. By 1983 the fund gained more than 4000%.

Stocks do not always go up

Do not buy the hype from Wall St. and the press that stocks always go up. There are long periods when stocks do nothing and other investments are better.

Jim Rogers youtube interview on investing, Asia and children

Jim Rogers Interview on Long term investments, Asia, US economy and more 

Rogers on India's huge trade deficit

They've [India] got a huge balance of trade deficit and the three largest parts are oil, gold and cooking oil. They cannot do anything about oil or cooking oil, so they're attacking gold, blaming their problems on gold. 

Gold has not caused their problems, gold is a symptom of their problems, but politicians are pretty simple-minded people and they look for the easy answer.

This may destroy Japan's economy in future

The Japanese Central Bank has said that it will print unlimited amounts of money. That's their word and they're doing it. When people look back 20 years from now they'll say that's what killed Japan, but in the meantime, all the staggering, unlimited amounts of money have got to go somewhere and it's going to go into Japanese shares.

Rogers on the Fed's next move

The US went up because people said, 'Now it's done, we don't have to worry anymore.' But somewhere along the line, markets are going to start suffering. They'll taper until the markets start hurting and then they'll panic and loosen up again. They've got themselves in a terrible box.

Central bankers are Rock Stars today

100 years ago you could not have named the head of most central banks in the world. Now they're all rock stars. Everybody knows them, but that's only a phenomenon of the last 20 years, when central banks have been pumping money into the markets and everybody's singing hallelujah.

The new Fed Chief of 2014

[Eventually in the future] people will realize that these guys have led us down a terrible path. The Fed balance sheet has increased by 500 per cent in the last 5 years and a lot of it's garbage.

Russian markets could still be a buy

 I think Russia is probably one of the most hated markets in the world. I don't think many people have a nice thing to say about Russia or Putin. I was pessimistic on Russia from 1966 to 2012—that's 46 years. But I've come to the conclusion that since it is so hated—and you should always look at markets that are hated—that there are probably good opportunities in Russia right now.

Insurance and investing overseas share markets

Most people have a health insurance policy, a life insurance policy, fire insurance, and car insurance. You hope that you never have to use these insurance policies, but you have them anyway. I feel the same way about what you call internationalizing, but I call it insurance. Everybody should have some of their money invested outside of their own country, outside of their own currency. No matter how positive things are in your home country, something could go wrong.

I obviously do it for many other reasons than that. I do it because I think I can make some money finding opportunities outside your own country. Many people are a little reluctant, you know. It's tough to leave your safe haven. So I try to explain to them, "Well, you have fire insurance, why don't you look on investing abroad as another kind of insurance?" and usually what happens is people get more accustomed to it. And they often invest more and more abroad because they say, "Oh, my gosh, look at these opportunities. Why didn't somebody tell us there are all these things out there?"

Rogers watching markets in Iran, Libya, Syria

At one point I did invest in Iran, back in the 1990s and made something like 40 times on my money. I didn't put millions in because there was a limit on how much a person could invest. But this was over 20 years ago. 

I would like to invest in Iran again, but I don't know the precise details on the sanctions and the current status of Americans being able to invest there. But Iran is certainly on my list. And so are Libya and Syria. I'm not doing anything at the moment in these countries, but they are places that are on my list.

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