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  Financial Sense Newshour's Ask The Expert: Jim Rogers
Jim Rogers' new book, Adventure Capitalist: Around the World With Jim Rogers, will surely match the success of his well known book, Investment Biker: On the Road with Jim Rogers.
Rogers co-founded the Quantum Fund, a global-investment partnership.
Rogers showed one nation after the next in which gradually weakening currencies and political structures have suddenly collapsed, resulting in total national ruin.
www.financialsense.com /Experts/2003/Rogers.htm   (400 words)

  
  Mimi Rogers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rogers later became a member of the Church of Scientology.
Her first husband, Jim Rogers, was also a Scientologist.
According to Tilman Hauser's list of Scientology celebrities, Rogers' status in the church is unknown, but it is believed that she is no longer active but still retains many of the beliefs.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mimi_Rogers   (442 words)

  
 Jim Rogers cautiously bullish on China stocks - Boston.com
Rogers, in a presentation at a conference, also reiterated his view to dump dollars and bonds and stay bullish on commodities, such as oil and aluminum.
But Rogers sees opportunities in Chinese companies involved in sectors such as environmental protection, water, green energy, railways and education, where the government and public were expected to spend a lot of money.
Rogers, 64, urged investors to get exposure to the Chinese currency, the renminbi , and dump the U.S. dollar, which he calls "a terribly flawed currency" as the United States is deep in debt.
www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2007/07/26/jim_rogers_cautiously_bullish_on_china_stocks   (495 words)

  
 Jim Rogers Barn
Jim Rogers now had lumber (from the two torn down wings) to build his own stables and enlisted Buddy Sterling, his friend and ranch hand.
Jim died on April 28, 2000, at the age of 84, and was laid to rest with his parents in Claremore.
Following the official park rededication on March 25, 2006, the Rogers family invited the public to witness the placement of the cornerstone on the Jim Rogers Barn in a Masonic cornerstone ceremony.
www.parks.ca.gov /?page_id=24149   (707 words)

  
 Jim Rogers: Hot on Commodities
Jim Rogers: I own some gold and gold is a commodity, although there are people out there who think it's holy and mystical and different.
Jim Rogers: I'd go into probably one of the agricultural commodities, if I could only go into one right now, because most of them are still very, very depressed, and that's where I think you would find better opportunities.
Jim Rogers: I'm not a geologist and I haven't been to all the oil fields in the world.
www.investmentu.com /IUEL/2005/20050725.html   (2548 words)

  
 Company Information (Executive Profiles) - Jim Rogers, Chief Executive Officer
Jim Rogers' career in the hospitality industry started nearly 30 years ago when, as a new graduate from the University of California-Berkeley, he came to Kampgrounds of America, Inc., as a management trainee in 1972.
Rogers returned to KOA in January 2000 to become the president and chief executive officer of the company, which with nearly 450 campgrounds is the largest network of franchised family campgrounds in the world.
Rogers currently serves as the Vice President of Finance for the Western Region of the Boy Scouts of America.
www.koapressroom.com /companyinformation/executiveprofiles/jimrogers.asp   (353 words)

  
 Jones, Jim - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Jim Caviezel to Appear at Hickey-Freeman Store at 666 Fifth Avenue in New York City on Monday, April 26th for a Book Signing From 12:00-2:00pm to Promote 'Bobby Jones - Stroke of Genius' and Its World Premiere at the Loews Lincoln Square.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas, Jim Reeves column: For Julius Jones, it might be third and long gone.
Investor and Author Jim Rogers to Speak at Jones Graduate School of Management, Rice University, Sept. 17.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/J/JonesJi.asp   (431 words)

  
 Jim Rogers
Jim Rogers is the author of Investment Biker: On the Road with Jim Rogers (published by Random House).
During 1990-1992, Jim Rogers rode his motorcycle 104,710km around the world, crossing six continents and setting a Guinness World Record while fulfilling a life-long dream of seeing the world from atop a motorcycle.
Investment Biker: On the Road with Jim Rogers, a best seller, chronicled that trip, revealing one nation after the next in which gradually weakening currencies and political structures had suddenly collapsed, resulting in total national ruin.
www.goodmanspeakersbureau.com /biographies/rogers_jim.htm   (690 words)

  
 Rogers Group Financial - Jim Rogers - Individual Profile
Jim Rogers is a 38-year veteran of the financial services industry, and the founder and Chair of Rogers Group Financial.
Jim was the 2000 - 2001 Chair of CAIFA (the Canadian Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors), and was the recipient of Advisor's Edge magazine's 2001 Career Achievement Award.
Rogers is a 31-year MDRT member, has qualified for Top of The Table for 23 consecutive years, and has served as its Chair.
www.rogersgroup.com /Pages/FinancialAdvisors/FinancialAdvisors.JimRogers.aspx   (206 words)

  
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Each of our certified instructors have been thoroughly trained in the most modern teaching methods and have demonstrated his or her ability to teach in a friendly and professional manner.
Jim Rogers, the school director, began fly-fishing when he was 10.
For the past 30 years, Jim has continued to teach fly fishing and currently is one of very few international instructors to hold a Masters Certification in fly fishing instruction for the Federation of Fly Fishers.
www.jimrogersflyschool.com /instructors.htm   (146 words)

  
 Jim Rogers
Rogers, author of ``Hot Commodities,' has said oil will keep rising because there hasn't been a major discovery for 30 years and economic growth in China and across Asia is driving up demand.
Rogers, 64, who created a series of commodities indexes and foresees a long-term bull market in oil, metals and grains, said he hadn't changed his positive view.
Rogers, 64, urged investors to get exposure to the Chinese currency, the renminbi, and dump the U.S. dollar, which he calls "a terribly flawed currency" as the United States is deep in debt.
investment.suite101.com /discussion.cfm/222   (1959 words)

  
 Jim Rogers on Russia - Email Exchange Between Jim Rogers and a Russian Student Dmitry Alimov
Rogers has written books on his travels around the world but is known mainly for co-founding the Quantum fund with George Soros in the 1970s Previous HedgeWorld Story.
Rogers, who has been hailed by Time Magazine as the Indiana Jones of finance, continues to travel and was on his way to Europe and unavailable for an interview via email or over the phone for this story.
Rogers also holds a number of speaking engagements each year and is a regularly sought out for his market commentary.
www.autopenhosting.org /futuresoptions/Jim-Rogers-Russia.html   (5474 words)

  
 Advocates for Self-Government - Libertarian Education
Libertarian investor Jim Rogers lived that dream in 1999 when he embarked on a 116-country journey that he later wrote about in his best-selling book, Adventure Capitalist.
Rogers first became famous in 1973, when he co-founded with George Soros the Quantum Fund, a global-investment partnership.
Rogers has also been a visiting professor of finance at Columbia University, a columnist for Worth magazine, and a commentator on the Fox News network.
www.theadvocates.org /celebrities/jim-rogers.html   (506 words)

  
 Museum of Lone Pine Film History: News
Jim Rogers, of Sunbelt Communications, said he would fund the research once an appropriate company is selected.
Jim cited the struggles of the Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Museum in Victorville among other market conditions as a reason to be very certain of what the financials the Museum will experience.
Patrons Beverly and Jim Rogers, and officials from the City of Los Angeles and the County on Inyo will be on hand for what is termed a "commemorative land transfer celebration" at the site of the future Museum.
www.lonepinefilmhistorymuseum.org /museumnews.htm   (1187 words)

  
 Rogers Raw Materials
The index was developed by Jim Rogers to be an effective measure of the price action of raw materials on a worldwide basis.
“Jim Rogers”, James Beeland Rogers, Jr.”, and “Rogers” are trademarks and service marks of, and “Rogers International Commodity Index” and “RICI” are registered trademarks and service marks of, Beeland Interests, Inc., which is owned and controlled by James Beeland Rogers, Jr., and are used subject to license.
Jim Rogers is the majority owner of Beeland Management, but is not involved with the management of the company.
www.rogersrawmaterials.com /page1.html   (1686 words)

  
 Jim Rogers Commodities
Jim impressed me as one of the few investors in the world who draws his own conclusions.
Jim Rogers' book, Adventure Capitalist, is one of the most important investment books of our time.
You can learn more about Jim Rogers at http://www.jimrogers.com, and you really ought to read his book.
www.investmentu.com /IUEL/2004/20040914.html   (845 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Adventure Capitalist: The Ultimate Road Trip: Books: Jim Rogers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Jim Rogers and his fiancée (now wife), Paige Parker, drovearound the world in a BMW from January 1999 through December2001.
Rogers does impart some great investment advice here, like the contention that the next bull market will be in commodities (raw materials) rather than securities, most of the currencies in the world are collapsing, and that the surprise up-and-coming nations will be Angola and Bolivia.
Rogers fails to notice that much of the political strife he encountered around the world resulted from mismanaged globalization efforts.
www.amazon.com /Adventure-Capitalist-Ultimate-Road-Trip/dp/0375509127   (1845 words)

  
 Jim Rogers, Investing Strategies in the Global Market: Banknet India
Anurag Khanna, CEO, Banknet India interacted with world-renowned investment guru Mr Jim Rogers at Mumbai on 21st Feb 2006 on commodity trading and other issues.
Mr Rogers was supportive of Banknet India's efforts in popularizing the commodity trading in India.
Mr Jim Rogers is world-renowned investment guru and has been dubbed The Indiana Jones of finance by Time magazine.
www.banknetindia.com /banking/jimrogers.htm   (640 words)

  
 Jim Rogers' Funds Jammed Up
Investment guru Jim Rogers's management company told investors that Refco's (RFX - news - Cramer's Take) bankruptcy filing means they probably won't be able to get their money out anytime soon.
In a letter to investors, an executive with Beeland Management Co. says 63% of the assets in the Rogers International Raw Materials Fund are tied up in the Refco bankruptcy and can't be withdrawn from the scandal-tarred brokerage.
The Rogers fund is one of hundreds of customers whose accounts essentially have been frozen in the bankruptcy proceeding.
www.thestreet.com /markets/hedgefunds/10248680.html   (349 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Investment Biker: Around the World With Jim Rogers: Books: Jim Rogers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Jim Rogers became a Wall Street legend when he and George Soros founded the Quantum Fund.
One historical insight Jim noted on his long trek across Russia and the former Soviet republics on his bike is that communism and Stalin in the Soviet Union were greatly helped by the invasion of Germany in WWII.
Jim also notes, from a rational investor standpoint that the American economy is past its glory days, and like every other nation or culture in history it will diminish in the same likes of the British and Roman Empires as examples.
www.amazon.com /Investment-Biker-Around-World-Rogers/dp/1558505296   (2350 words)

  
 Financial Sense Newshour's Ask The Expert: Jim Rogers 02.05.2005
with Jim Rogers, Marc Faber and Antony Burgmans
Rogers thinks it's going to continue for at least fifteen years - and he's put his money where his mouth is: In 1998, he started his own commodities index fund.
Riverside Conversations, Part 2 "The Future of Europe" with Jim Rogers, Marc Faber and Antony Burgmans.
www.financialsense.com /Experts/2005/Rogers.html   (523 words)

  
 Worlds Greatest Investors:Jim Rogers,Co-founded the Quantum fund.
Known as the “poor boy from Alabama ” Jim Rogers is known more for his post retirement activities then for what he did at work.
Rogers considers commodity to be the next big thing and he has been proved extraordinarily correct in his forecasts till now.
Rogers opines that the per capita consumption of crude in these two countries is just 5% of that of the U.S. Rogers expects crude to sail well above $100 at the end of the decade.
www.theequitydesk.com /jim_rogers.asp   (743 words)

  
 A Conversation With Jim Rogers (The Pro Shop) | SmartMoney.com
The 60-year-old Rogers got himself a custom-built sunburst-yellow 4x4 Mercedes convertible, and then hitched a trailer full of creature comforts to the back.
SmartMoney.com asked Rogers, whose journey set a Guinness World Record for distance traveled by horseless buggy, for some tips he's gleaned from his travels, which currency he thinks has the most potential (it's not the dollar or the euro) and why he thinks commodities are the place to invest right now.
Jim Rogers: When you cross a border, you learn a lot of what you need to know.
www.smartmoney.com /theproshop/index.cfm?story=20030618   (1733 words)

  
 An Early Christmas for Jim Rogers
Rogers, who started betting on commodities in 1998, has already benefited handsomely from making that early call in the midst of the dot-com bubble: His Rogers International Commodity Index has increased 185% since Aug. 1, 1998.
Rogers, who was already majority shareholder of Beeland, has increased his stake as part of the dispute's resolution.
Rogers may have a bleak outlook for the U.S., but his well-placed investments in commodities and foreign currencies are keeping him in an upbeat mood.
www.businessweek.com /bwdaily/dnflash/dec2004/nf2004128_0319_db035.htm   (999 words)

  
 Jim Rogers News and Commodity Articles - Jim Rogers Article: Breakfast of Champions?
It is an excellent email exchange between Jim Rogers and the Russian student, and we believe that you can find more information about that email exchange elsewhere on other websites.
Below is an article written by Jim Rogers months ago, posted in lieu of the email exchange between Jim Rogers and the Russian student.
As of June 24, the Dow Jones AIG Commodity Futures Index, a marginal benchmark for the commodities world, is up 11 percent since the beginning of the year.
chinese-school.netfirms.com /Jim-Rogers-Russia.html   (1634 words)

  
 Jim Rogers - Investment Expert, Author: _Investment Biker & Adventure Capitalist_ - Nationwide Speakers Bureau
Jim Rogers is the author of Adventure Capitalist: The Ultimate Road Trip and Investment Biker: On the Road with Jim Rogers.
Rogers’ entrepreneurial efforts started early in Demopolis, Alabama, where he was reared.
It was during the summer of 1964, while working for Dominick & Dominick, that Rogers fell in love with Wall Street.
www.nationwidespeakers.com /speaker/529   (680 words)

  
 The Rise of Red Capitalism by Jim Rogers
In 1999, when I was in China, the then prime minister, Zhu Rongji, spoke at the Harvard Business School.
I suspect that the renminbi will be floating quite freely by the time the Olympic torch is lit in Beijing in 2008.
Jim Rogers [send him mail] helped found the Quantum Fund with George Soros.
www.lewrockwell.com /orig6/rogers1.html   (1621 words)

  
 Refco Owes Jim Rogers Fund $362 Million
Investment guru Jim Rogers could be one of the losers in the collapse of Refco (RFX:NYSE - commentary - research - Cramer's Take), the scandal-tarred commodities and derivatives brokerage.
The Rogers Raw Material Fund is owed more than $362 million, according to the filing.
Rogers, a frequent guest on television business shows, has written several popular investment books.
www.thestreet.com /_googlen/markets/matthewgoldstein/10247967.html?cm_ven=GOOGLEN&cm_cat=FREE&cm_ite=NA   (400 words)

  
 Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed
While the current media frenzy over subprime may mark a near-term bottom -- the smart folks at Citadel are seemingly betting that way with their Sowood buy at 40 cents on the dollar -- but Jim Rogers doesn't buy it.
Rogers, a Penn State graduate, says he heard about one job that promised a possible annual salary of $500,000.
Not until my man Jim Goldman at CNBC knocked the story down late today did I hear about anyone who actually called Miller Tabak, only to find that there was no basis to the story, no "trading desk memo" -- not even a runaway sqeegee boy answering phones.
paul.kedrosky.com   (2163 words)

  
 Jim Rogers personal appearances, financial speakers, investments jim rogers
Jim Rogers is the author of Investment Biker: On the Road with Jim Rogers (published by Random House in 1994).
Born in 1942, Rogers' entrepreneurial efforts started early in Demopolis, Alabama, where lie was reared.
Rogers then decided to retire - at age 37.
www.barberusa.com /finance/rogers_jim.html   (629 words)

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