Ep. 429: Jim Rogers Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2016
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Jim Rogers, an American investor and financial commentator based in Singapore. Rogers is the chairman of Beeland Interests, Inc. He was the co-founder of the Quantum Fund and Soros Fund Management. He was also the creator of the Rogers International Commodities Index (RICI). Rogers does not consider himself a member of any school of economic thought, but has acknowledged that his views best fit the label of the Austrian School of economics.
The topic is central banking system.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Negative interest rates
- Central banking systems
- Market crashes
- The impact of unintended consequences
- Preparing for the future
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I'm MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I'm proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive. |
| 0:10.9 | Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings. |
| 0:21.1 | I am your host, Michael Covel. |
| 0:24.0 | Not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.4 | That's my passion. |
| 0:33.1 | My guest today is Jim Rogers, famed American investor, currently based in Singapore, once founder of the Quantum Fund. |
| 0:43.3 | Jim has authored numerous books. |
| 0:45.4 | If you have not read a book by Jim Rogers, what rock have you been sleeping under? |
| 0:51.6 | Our conversation today is not pretty. |
| 0:54.8 | At least it's not pretty for the central banks of the world. |
| 0:59.4 | Jim has an ominous warning for those of us still with a pulse. |
| 1:05.2 | I hope this conversation with Jim Rogers at least gets you thinking. |
| 1:17.5 | Music with Jim Rogers, at least get you thinking. So I was talking to my father the other day. |
| 1:19.4 | He's in his early 70s. |
| 1:20.6 | He's still a practicing dentist. |
| 1:22.6 | And I asked him if he knew about negative interest rates. |
| 1:25.7 | And he was like, what are you talking about? |
| 1:27.4 | And I said, |
| 1:27.8 | yeah, you're going to have to pay the bank to hold your money for you. On top of that, I'm watching |
| 1:32.7 | Janet Yellen the other day, and she's before Congress. And she starts talking about the need to |
| 1:39.3 | perhaps find a, you know, there could be some legal obstructions to negative interest rates, but she's |
| 1:44.9 | pretty sure she can find the workaround. Now, when you hear the head of the feds say that, |
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