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Jim Rogers was on CNBC earlier this week, sharing his thoughts and outlook on Q2 Earnings, the Euro, the future of BP, and more. Some of my quick notes are here, with the 7-minute video below: He says don’t worry about Q2 earnings – that’s history. Looking ahead, he’s skeptical that the good earnings news […]
Jim Rogers was a guest on this week’s edition of the Financial Sense Newshour with Jim Puplava. It’s a great interview – which you can listen to here. (Note: If you’re reading this post later on, you may need to search for the June 12, 2010 episode through the archives). Sometimes Jim’s CNBC interviews can […]
On Sunday, I mused that one of my deepest concerns about being bullish on the US Dollar is that I’m on the opposite side of the trade from Jim Rogers, who thinks the buck is doomed. Not so, pointed out astute reader Sibbie via email, citing a recent Rogers interview in BusinessWeek: Q: How much […]
Go ahead – take a wild guess what Facebook’s most popular app of all-time is. Did you guess – FarmVille? As reported by the blog Econsultancy: As the name suggests, FarmVille is a game that gives users the ability to “grow delicious fruits and vegetables and raise adorable animals” on their own virtual farms. With […]
China’s Shanghai Composite index got walloped overnight – falling 6.7% – and reaching it’s lowest levels since May, reports the Wall Street Journal. Flash Player 9 or higher is required to view the chartClick here to download Flash Player now View the full INDEX:SSEC chart at Wikinvest Could China be leading the broader markets down? […]
The smallest acreage for cotton in 26 years has propelled the fluffy material “limit up” for the day, in what amounted to almost a delayed reaction from traders, as cotton was initially down yesterday when the report came out. Likely due to the weakness shown by the other grains. You’d think that with cotton supplies […]
It’s been a manic start to the week for commodities and currencies…deflation was “back” yesterday, with investors running back to the dollar…and today inflation was the focus, with the dollar getting dumped! Last evening, we observed that sugar was standing tall amidst an across the board selloff in commodities. Well today, that strength carried through […]
The biggest investing mistake I ever made was not getting out of commodities during the Great Deleveraging of ’08/’09. I had a pretty good beat on the major trends – stocks were highly vulnerable, the US could be in for some very bad things, etc – but I failed to project the effect that […]
Marc Faber says that investing in agriculture today will be like investing in oil in 2001, when it was priced at $17/barrel, according to The National Post. Faber says that record low inventories, declining agricultural productivity, and increasing demand for food will drive prices higher. The falling productivity line is especially interesting…Faber says productivity in […]
If you have the majority of your savings in US dollars, this may be the most important insight you ever hear from Jim Rogers. In an interview with Bloomberg from this morning, Rogers said: “We’re going to have a currency crisis, probably this fall or the fall of 2010. It’s been building up for a […]
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