Crazy Commodity Cycles (and cross-continent motorcycles) with Jim Rogers

The king of Commodities has entered The Derivative ring. You know his name, you’ve read his books, you’ve probably utilized his index, and now you’re listening to him in this most recent podcast episode. Jim Rogers is an American investor and financial commentator and was there at the start of the Quantum Fund and Soros Fund Management. In today’s episode, we’re talking with Jim about peanut sales, commodity supercycles, global debt reset,  creation of the RICI, reweighting for renewables, commodities vs commodity companies, Jim’s ability to identify the next world trend, Guinness Book of World Records, Chinese commodities, preferring shares of Google over Gold, potential of innovation outpacing demand, Hot Commodities 1998 vs 2021, cross country trips, probability of a Chinese supercycle, and Jim’s thoughts about the next bear market and market dislocation being the worst we’ve ever seen.

Chapters:

00:00-02:02 = Intro

02:03-15:35 = An Extraordinary Background

15:36-39:57 = COMMODITIES: Indexes, Energies & China   

39:58-59:27 = Money Printing, Simple Observations & Global Debt Reset

59:28-01:06:49 = Now & Then: Comparing & Contrasting Commodities

01:06:50-01:16:25 = Favorites

Check out this list of Jim’s books (translated into many languages) and read up on all of his interesting stories here.

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