FINANCE has been good the past 30 years, Not anymore

 "Finance has been good the past 30 years, but it was not good the 30 years before that, and it's happening again," Rogers said. "Finance is in decline. In the future, the center of the world will not be finance—it's going to be the producers of real goods."- in CNBC




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%.

Finance is in Decline

 "Finance has been good the past 30 years, but it was not good the 30 years before that, and it's happening again," Rogers said. "Finance is in decline. In the future, the center of the world will not be finance—it's going to be the producers of real goods."

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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%.

Jim Rogers: Forget Finance , get an Agriculture Degree

"If you've got young people who don't know what to do, I'd urge them not to get MBAs, but to get agriculture degrees," Rogers told CNBC.com.  




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%.

Jim Rogers : Finance has failed several times in history

Jim Rogers : when i went to Wall Street in the sixties mostly it was backward nobody went to Wall Street , in the fifties sixties and seventies Wall Street was not important then we had a long bull market for thirty years it became extremely important , everybody got an MBA and everybody wanted top go to finance but that happens anytime in history for the first years of the twentieth century finance they were kings then we had the collapse of the thirties it became disastrous again until the eighties but it always worked this way , finance has failed several times in history , many times in history but everything has failed , everything goes to excess and collapses has a long period of bad period then it starts over , like agriculture ......

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%.

Jim Rogers : Finance is going to be a horrible place to be

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 The Daily Crux



 
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%.