Tuesday, September 24, 2019

Why Jim Rogers Is Bullish on China, Russia and Commodities

Jim Rogers was interviewed on a segment of New Media on Aug. 19. Rogers is a famous investor who worked with George Soros in the Quantum Fund and later traveled the world as an investment writer and "retired" investor. 

He tends to take a very long-term macro view with value characteristics on all kinds of investments. Commodities tend to interest him and he takes somewhat of a value approach, often talking about buying when markets are at multi-year lows. Here's a summary of his best actionable advice.


America became the greatest country of the 20th century. Is had many problems along the way. But it became an astonishing success. So don't think that China won't have problems along the way. They will. But the Chinese have a wonderful word that we don't have in English. It's "weiji."

And weiji means catastrophe and opportunity are the same thing.

They go hand-in-hand. So when you see catastrophe, remember weiji. Rogers said he is panicked, He hopes we both remember weiji and take advantage of the opportunities because they will be here.

When Chinese companies start going bankrupt and if Beijing lets them go bankrupt, everybody's going to be in a panic, including me. At that time Jim hopes to be smart enough and brave enough to buy...

- Source, Guru Focus, read more here