Your Bank Account Isn't Safe

”Well, it’s now in their bag of tricks, but yes, they can do anything they want too now. I for one am worried and I'm taking preparations. Who knows if I'm right or not, but I'd rather be safe than sorry as all of those people who had money in Cyprus have learned. They thought they had a normal bank account… but now it’s been [taken] with the sanctions of many governments and institutions.”

- Jim Rogers via a recent Lew Rockwell interview:

http://lewrockwell.com/rogers-j/rogers-j182.html

You’re Bailing Out Incompetence

"Japan faced problems such as we’re facing now, and they refused to let people go bankrupt, they propped up the banks, they propped up a lot of companies, and they came to be known as the zombie banks and zombie companies, and as you know the Japanese talk about the 1990s as the lost decade. But now you’re talking about two lost decades. Their stock market is down 75% from where it was 23 years ago. That is not a typo, it’s down 75%. We’re going the same way. We refuse to let people go bankrupt, prop up everybody in sight, and the problem with that is you’re rewarding incompetence, you’re bailing out incompetence, rather than allowing new people, new energy, new capital, and new competition. It’s called the green shoots, from Joseph Schumpeter. One of the great beauties of capitalism is creative destruction, which allows the green shoots of new energy, and new capital, and new ideas to develop. They’re not allowing that in the United States these days, just as Japan refused to allow it for the last 23 years."

- Source, Investors Guide:

http://www.investorguide.com/

Lessons In Investing

Jim Rogers joins Mamta Badkar on Business Insider. During this interview Jim Rogers shares his insights on where the market is going and how he believes an individual should invest.

- Source, Business Insider:

http://www.businessinsider.com/

All Governments Debasing Their Currency at the Same Time

"Forget last week's sell-off in gold. Jim Rogers says it's going higher. How high? "If the U.S. dollar becomes confetti, any number you want to make up. They're printing U.S. dollars fast enough to turn them into confetti. Who knows how high gold will go as long as we have a mad man running the central bank," says Rogers."

- Source, USA Watchdog:

http://usawatchdog.com/these-are-perilous-times-jim-rogers/

Invest in What You Know

Nobody should invest in anything that they themselves don’t understand. So if I sat here and said you should do x, y, z, and people don’t have a clue what I’m talking about, they should probably ignore what I say or even what you say. Nobody should invest in something that they don’t understand. If you know nothing about gold except that it’s supposedly valuable, you shouldn’t buy it, or invest in anything you don’t know about. But once you know a lot about something, you will probably figure out some ways to protect yourself. I mean if you have your own business, like you, usually the best thing to invest in is your own business, because you know more about that than anything else. I have various ways that I’m trying to protect myself, but even if I told you I’m doing x, I might change my mind tomorrow afternoon, and then you would be stuck doing x because I said it. I’m not going to call you and tell you I changed my mind on that position. So people really need to invest in only what they themselves know a lot about.

- Source, Investors Guide:

http://www.investorguide.com/

Most People Don't End Up Successful

“Most people don’t think for themselves. Most people just go along with whatever they see in the newspapers or the TV or whatever their friends or teachers say. That’s a terrible, terrible mistake because most of those people don’t wind up being terribly successful in life.”

- Source, Smart Planet, read the full article here:

http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/business-brains/disruptor-jim-rogers-investor/26722

Nobody is Paying Attention to the Debt

"I would start with the debt in the United States government. You might say “oh, they’re paying attention”, I would say balderdash. You know, my entire life I’ve heard congress talk about deficit spending, bemoan deficit spending, and talk about the debt. Back in the 1980s there was something called the Grace Commission, which was specially commissioned to study what to do about the deficit and the debt. And it passed laws, congress passed several laws since then, saying there will be no more deficit spending, or there will be no more debt, there will be no more, this will change, blah blah blah. And then they turn around and they ignore the laws. This has been going on for a long time. You might say people are paying attention, I would say that’s claptrap, they’re just talking, they have no intention of doing anything about it, and even if they “do something”, what they do is say “ok, instead of having increased spending, we’ll have less increase, we’ll still increase, it’ll just be less.” I mean, no, nobody’s paying attention to it."

- Source, Investors Guide:

http://www.investorguide.com/article/12206/jim-rogers/

Countries Are in Serious Trouble

"I'm a little surprised it took Moody's so long to get around to lowering the credit rating. The UK, the US, and other countries are in serious trouble, and the world seems to know it. It's just the rating agencies that don't know it. "I suspect sterling will continue to go down in real terms against real assets."

- Source, BBC:

http://www.bbc.com/news/

U.S Economy Enters a Black Hole

Jim Rogers appears on Russia Today, where he discusses China, the U.S and the Eurozone. He see's the U.S economy entering a "black hole".

- Source, Russia Today:

http://rt.com/

I Suspect They'll Take The Pension Plans Next

"I Suspect They’ll Take the Pension Plans Next; I for One am Worried, and I'm Taking Preparations."

- Jim Rogers interview via Lew Rockwell:

http://lewrockwell.com/rogers-j/rogers-j182.html

Stuck With the Old Technology

"If you go to some countries now, people don’t have telephones with land lines, they just completely leapt over that whole thing. We all used to have telephones with copper wires coming in. Most new countries don’t have land lines, they don’t have all those copper wires, et cetera. They don’t need it, they just completely leapt over all that. That’s been the story throughout history, the way people have developed, something new comes along, people develop it rather than go with the old ways, and people still stuck with the old technology and the old ways usually have to change or get passed by."

- Source, Investors Guide:

http://www.investorguide.com/article/12206/jim-rogers/

The Gold Market Outlook

"I don`t think the bull market will end in gold. What I said was that normally all assets correct 30 or 4 percent every year or 2 or 3. It`s just the way the markets work. Gold has only been down 30 percent once in the past 12 years and even then it ended up for the year. This is extremely unusual for any market.

So, what I said was, that if gold were to correct 35 or 40 percent it would go to 1200. Gold needs to correct it`s supposed to correct every 2 or 3 years. It has not, which worries me. If it did, I hope I am smart enough to buy more. It should but it does not mean it will. It may go to 2400 before it goes to 1200."