Fund Managers can become farmers: Jim Rogers

Even if you are outright bearish, don't short the market. Stocks could touch crazy levels, but they may be in currencies which are worthless.
Jim Rogers
Indeed, a sovereign default and currency turmoil could rattle world markets in a year or two. In a chat with ET, global investor Jim Rogers says cotton, silver and sugar can be hot picks. Read on.

At one stage we were inundated with gloomy forecasts, which were further reinforced by the IMF and World Bank. And then suddenly stocks surged — something most were not prepared for. How risky is the market today?

Central banks all over the world have printed huge amounts of money, and the real economy is not strong enough for all this money to be absorbed... so, it's going into stocks and real assets such as commodities. It's a mistake what they are doing. It's giving short-term pleasure, but there's long-term pain as we are going to have much higher inflation, much higher interest rates and a worse economy down the road.

The American bond market is already beginning to go down dramatically as people realise that the American government has to sell huge amount of bonds, and secondly, there is going to be inflation, serious inflation, as it was always in the past when you had governments printing huge amounts of money.

Stocks are rising even as fiscal deficit is widening. Somewhere it has to snap...

It's going to snap. Later this year, next year, we are going to have currency problems, maybe even a currency crisis. I don't know with which currency — maybe with the pound sterling, maybe with the US dollar, who knows. It maybe with something none of us have at the moment. When you have a currency crisis, stocks will be affected, many things will be affected. It is not sound, what's happening out there in the world.

In the 1930s, we had a huge stock market bubble which popped. And then politicians started making many mistakes. They became protectionist. They made solvent banks take over insolvent banks and then both banks failed in the end.

They are doing many of the same mistakes now. What's different this time is that we are printing huge amounts of money which they did not print at that time. So, we are going to have inflation this time.

What do you do? No politically-elected government can afford so much pain, unemployment and hardships...
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Let's hope China do not turn to be a bubble said Jim Rogers

Abn Amro interviews Jim Rogers : I continue to buy Chinese shares , I would not sell my Chinese shares , Real estate is a great buy in Asia , emerging markets are a great buy , great opportunities also in Taiwan if it makes peace with china , North and South Korea will eventually unite and that's a great market , good opportunities in Singapore Japan Viet Nam Malysia Indonesia and most of Asia ...Finally Jim Rogers gives his opinion "for the first time I guess" about Africa and he said that Africa is natural resources and commodities rich , like copper , Big fortunes are going to come out of Africa in the next few years Jim Rogers added

Jim Rogers Abn Amro Interview
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