Why Jim Rogers is bullish on North Korea

North Korea ruler Kim Jung with Dennis Rodman

I would like to invest in North Korea but I'm an American so its illegal. 

North Korea is where China was in 1980, where Myanmar was in 2010. Very exciting and dramatic changes are taking place but I am a citizen of the land of the free and we are not allowed to invest in North Korea.

Kim Jung and his wife examining the new Amusement Park in North Korea

North Korea has a great gene pool if you look at it historically over the past thousand years. Theres something about the Koreans, they are not dumb, unsuccessful people. The Russians are pouring in, the Chinese are pouring in. Its changing very quickly.  


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

Jim Rogers on Interest Rates and central banks

Most central banks follow the market, and the market dictates what has to happen. In the US, interest rates have already started going up a bit, and they will continue to go higher, in my view. The US central bank will be forced to cut back its bond purchases and probably they will, and that will lead to higher interest rates.


At some point, we are going to have interest rates that will affect markets though that may not happen for a while. But when it happens, central banks will panic, the US central bank will panic and then they all will again start buying bonds in order to calm down the markets. Then again, interest rates will come down for while, and there will be bubble in the markets.


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

Money Printing and economic recovery

Vast amount of money has been pumped into Japan, America, Europe, and the UK. Whether the recovery will last or not I don't know. But these are all artificial money which has been pumped in to rest of the world.


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

Why Jim Rogers does not own a TV

I don't have a TV. I don't pay attention to other people. I have found in my life, if I get investment advice from someone else I nearly always lose money. I'm not quite sure why so I have learnt not to try.

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

Jim Rogers on Narendra Modi and changes that could happen

Narendra Modi having friendly chat with Obama 

So far, Modi [India Prime Minister] does not seem to have produced results, which we all expected him to do. He said a lot of wonderful things, but so far nothing has happened, other than a lot of public relations.

People are waiting to see when Modi is going to change its economic policy, or start opening up of India to outside world. The expectations are very high because Modi at some point of time has to come up with some concrete proper actions.

Former Indian PM Singh greets Obama with friendly hug

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

Jim Rogers: Sanctions have not hurt Russia

I don’t see that it has hurt Russia [sanctions on Russia]. Maybe there’s something I don’t know, but I don’t see that this has hurt Russia in any way at this point.


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

Emerging markets will get hit if Fed raises interest rates

Emerging markets will get impacted from the US Federal Reserve interest rate hike. Last year, it scared lot of people, including the best of the emerging markets, when the tapering of quantitative easing was announced. 

When the market goes down by a fair amount, central banks will panic, and they will say "Don't worry, we will help you". Yes, it's going to affect everybody, especially the emerging markets.

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