Jim Rogers

Jim Rogers has three hot tips for investors: “Question everything, never follow the crowd, and beware of boys!”
Rogers is the bow-tied “adventure capitalist” who co- founded Quantum Fund with George Soros. He made enough money to retire at 37, then toured the globe on a motorcycle.

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The legendary investor is sticking for now with the two Cs: China and commodities. "I am skeptical about the rally, and the world economy for the next year or two or three," Jim says. "But if stocks go down, I can make money with commodities."

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Renowned investor Jim Rogers thinks it's laughable that some analysts are suggesting the bull market in commodities may be over,but it's nothing he hasn't heard before in his nearly 40 years in the business.

"People have been telling me for seven years that the bull market in commodities is over, practically every time we have a correction, and I suspect they'll be saying it for at least another seven years. The bull market is not over yet - it's had a big correction but it's not over yet,"

Jim Rogers, who in April 2006 correctly predicted oil would reach $100 a barrel and gold $1,000 an ounce, told investors not to ``give up'' on Chinese shares after the country's stock index fell almost 50 percent this year.

'Start buying when others say `never again', Rogers, 65, said today at an investor conference in Nanjing. There is ``much money to be made'' from investments in Chinese stocks, he said.

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Jim Rogers has a severe case of wanderlust. The longtime investor and author, whose books include Investment Biker and Adventure Capitalist, also has a new address: Singapore. Rogers recently moved his family to the island state from New York because he wants his young daughters to learn to speak fluent Chinese, which will be crucial in this century, he says.

In a recent conversation with Barron's, Rogers had no shortage of strong opinions on topics ranging from regulation of the financial markets to China's future.

You might expect Jim Rogers to be gloating a little bit. After all, the famed investor has been predicting a recession in the U.S. economy for months and shorting the shares of now-tanking Wall Street investment banks for even longer. And with fears of a recession sparking both a worldwide market sell-off and emergency action from Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, Rogers again looks prescient - just as he has over the past few years as the China-driven commodities boom he predicted almost a decade ago began kicked into high gear.

Jim Rogers, co-founder of the Quantum Hedge Fund with billionaire George Soros, boosted his bets against U.S. securities firms because of their salary 'excesses' and money-losing investments.

Rogers said he increased his year-old short positions in the past six weeks in U.S. investment banks, using exchange-traded funds and bets against individual companies he declined to name. Stocks in the industry, which pays too much in bonuses, may fall as much as 70 percent in a bear market, he said.

Jim Rogers, chairman of Beeland Interests Inc., said he is shifting all his assets out of the dollar and buying Chinese yuan because the Federal Reserve has eroded the value of the U.S. currency.

"I'm in the process of -- I hope in the next few months -- getting all of my assets out of U.S. dollars,'' said Rogers, 65, who correctly predicted the commodities rally in 1999. "I'm that pessimistic about what's happening in the U.S."

'I'm just not smart enough to know how far down it will go and how long it will stay, but I do know that within the context of the bull market, oil will go over $100,'' Rogers said in a Tokyo interview. 'It will go over $150. Whether that is in 2009 or 2013, I don't have a clue, but I know it's going to happen.'