China will Survive The Convertibility of The RMB

 
Q: What would you like to see in China's financial reform? 

Jim Rogers: They should make their currency, the RMB, convertible this afternoon. They started (currency reforms) in 2005 and have taken many small steps. But China is no longer a weak economy. It is the most successful country in the past thirty years. There is nothing to fear.

Q: Interest rate liberalization, floating the currency and opening up capital accounts, which one should come first? 

Jim Rogers: I would think all of the above this afternoon. But they've been very slow and only taken small steps. Deng Xiaoping says you cross a stream by feeling one rock at a time. That's correct. But there comes a time when you get to the other side, and let's move ahead. China is on the other side now.

Q: How worried are you about capital outflows if the capital accounts are opened now?


Jim Rogers: Of course there will be capital outflows. The RMB may even go down for a while. But just do it and get it over with. There will be a lot of capital inflows as people like me want to put money into China.
Have you ever heard of people smuggling money into a country with capital controls? No. People in China are trying to get their money out. But there are also many people who want to rush into China. This is the point of a free and open market. Trust me, it's not the end of the world.
The Australians, Germans and Japanese used to worry about (opening up capital accounts). But somehow they all survived. Trillions of dollars flow in and out everyday in the foreign currency market. China will survive too. - in chinamoneynetwork






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%.