Ep. 485 Jim Rogers on Central Banks, Investing, and Finding Your Niche
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
By popular demand and at long last, the great Jim Rogers joins the program today. We discuss China, India, Africa, the financial crisis of 2008, whether central banks have everything under control now, and how to decide where to put your money.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 485. |
| 0:03.8 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:08.6 | Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
| 0:14.9 | Hey, everybody, there's an excellent case to be made for buying gold for the long haul, |
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| 0:21.5 | and the folks at Schiff Gold, who have just released a free report, the powerful case for silver. |
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| 0:30.9 | Hey, everybody, Tom Woods here. What a treat it is to have Jim Rogers with us today. |
| 0:37.2 | Jim Rogers, I don't know even where to begin, telling you about his life. You're going to have Jim Rogers with us today. Jim Rogers, I don't know even where to begin, telling you |
| 0:40.5 | about his life. You're going to have to read the book Street Smarts, which we'll talk about |
| 0:44.6 | at least briefly in our conversation. But let it suffice to say that Jim Rogers was co-founder |
| 0:50.4 | of the Quantum Fund in the early 1970s, and over the ensuing 10 years, the Quantum Fund |
| 0:58.1 | portfolio went up 4,200% at a time when the S&P was up 47%. Jim Rogers went on to found the Rogers |
| 1:09.7 | International Commodities Index. |
| 1:12.6 | He is a frequent commentator on the financial networks. |
| 1:16.2 | He is the author of numerous successful books, the most recent of which is the book I mentioned, |
| 1:22.2 | Street Smart's, Adventures on the Road, and in the Markets. |
| 1:25.7 | You can check him out at Jim Rogers.com. And of course, Jim |
| 1:30.0 | endorsed Ron Paul for president. Stay tuned after my conversation with Jim Rogers, by the way, |
| 1:35.9 | I have a big bonus for everybody who listens to this show. Big, big bonus coming to you. And it's |
| 1:41.9 | not my free e-book on Bernie Sanders. That's another |
| 1:44.4 | book. I got so many bonuses, I can't even keep track of them anymore. But stay tuned to find out |
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