Jim Rogers on the Trade war started by Brazil

Jim Rogers : Well David everything is being killed right now as you can see. partly as you may know Brazil has sort of ignited a trade war and then put on tariffs with the people in Asia and right now China's trying to get the Europeans to let them open up the trade with China more and the Europeans are saying, no. so china is saying no. we won't bail you out. so there are all sorts of trade tensions developing. and currency tensions , it is not a good world
well, I hope the trade war doesn't break out, you know, throughout history when you've had trade wars it's caused depression. you saw what happened in 1930. it led to depression. and ultimately it led to war. so I hope it can be contained. I was very surprised to see Brazil do that. one of their largest trading partners is China and yet they certainly -- and Korea, yet they certainly hit China and Korea with 30% tariff increases. it's not fun.

Jim Rogers started trading the stock market with $600 in 1968.In 1973 he formed the Quantum Fund with the legendary investor George Soros before retiring, a multi millionaire at the age of 37. Rogers and Soros helped steer the fund to a miraculous 4,200% return over the 10 year span of the fund while the S&P 500 returned just 47%.