FM: So what is your opinion on the current state of the gold
bull market. You’ve said repeatedly that you expect it to go much higher
this decade. How do you see it right now?
Jim Rogers : Unfortunately from my point of view, and I own gold and haven’t
sold any, we are in a long overdue and much needed correction. The
anomaly was that gold had been up 12 years in a row. That’s not normal,
typical action. It’s abnormal, which worries me and should worry all the
gold bulls. It has now corrected for some 18 to 20 months now. I find
that encouraging. I mean, I don’t know, because I’m not a very good
market timer, but I do know that most corrections go on long enough to
scare a lot of people and scare them out of their positions, and that’s
what I would expect to happen.
I’ve had people write to me and say: “gold cannot go down 30%”, and I
say: “turn on your computer. It’s there.” There are a lot of mystics
that are still true believers. Until it scares a lot of people the
correction is not over. I would certainly like the correction to be over
this afternoon and see gold go to $2,000 or to $3,000, but that’s not
reality. - in Goldmoney
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%.