Wall Street was a disaster the years I was there. And I did OK

Jim Rogers: Actually, Wall Street was a disaster the years I was there. And I did OK. I know Roy Neuberger who started Neuberger Berman went to Wall Street in 1929 – it couldn't have been a worse time – and yet he became wildly successful in finance. So of course it can be done. But the numbers of people who do it are going to be very few and far between going forward. You'll need to be very passionate about it, because the wind is going to be in your face. In 1958, America had 5,000 MBAs every year and the rest of the world had none. Now, America has a couple hundred thousand every year and the rest of the world has tens of thousands. So there's huge competition in finance. By the way, an MBA won't teach you about commodities or raw materials. It will teach you mainly about stocks, bonds, and options. But now there's huge competition at a time when there's staggering debt in the financial world, and politicians all over the world are coming down hard against banks, brokers, and financial institutions. Taxes, regulations, requirements. So, finance is going to be a horrible place to be, just as it was in the '50s, '60s, and '70s. I mean, almost no one went to Wall Street in the '50s, '60s, and '70s. The city of London was a wasteland in those days. And then we had the big bull market and that all changed. But now, we're going back to a period where the producers of the real goods are the ones in charge, making the money and the excitement. This has happened repeatedly throughout history. We've had long periods when the financial types were the kingpins, and we've had long periods when the producers of real goods were the kingpins. It's reversing again now, and we're just going back to what's always happened. - in Daoly Crux