"It's a bear market rally. I was going to say I don't think S&P 500 will see new highs. But I have to quickly temper that by saying against the dollar because the S&P 500 could triple from here if they print enough money and the value of the US dollar collapses, then S&P could go to 50,000, Dow Jones can go to 1,00,000. Which is one reason why I am not shorting stocks right now. Because there is a possibility of this sort of a thing. There is a possibility that stocks could go through unheard of levels, but would be in worthless currency."
said Jim Rogers in an interview with The Economic Times of India
and he added :
Become a farmer. The world has tens of thousands of hotshot fund managers right now. If I am correct, the financial community is not going to be a great place to be in for the next 30 years. We have many periods in history when financial people were in charge, we had many periods when people who produced real goods were in charge — miners, farmers, etc. The world, in my view, is changing and is shifting away from the financial types to producers of real goods, and this is going to last for several decades as it always has. This may sound strange but it always happens this way. Ten years from now, it may be farmers who will drive the Lamborghinis and the stock brokers will drive tractors or taxis at best.
I love it when Jim Rogers starts telling the impeccably dressed bankers and executives that they have no future in finance and should become farmers.
ReplyDeleteYou can see them looking nervously at their $2,000 pinstriped suits, tightening their silk ties and curling their pampered toes inside their Italian wingtips and silk socks, wondering if they will have to strip and turn in their dapper business attire for overalls and work boots.