Jim Rogers on Bloomberg The Full Interview 5/12/10
Jim Rogers, chairman of Rogers Holdings, talks with Bloomberg's Haslinda Amin about the outlook for global financial markets and his investment strategy. Rogers, speaking in Singapore, said the time may come where "all we can do is to put our money into real assets because paper money everywhere is being debased." Gold traded near a record in Asia after surging to an all-time high yesterday on investor concern that international financial support for indebted European states will depress currencies.
Jim Rogers : I am long the Euro not that I am making any money but I was stunned this means that they have giving up on the Euro they do not particularly care if they have a sound currency , you have all these countries spending money they do not have and it is going to continue so..I have to worry about the Euro ...I worry about all paper money , all paper money but this is just another nail in the coffin ...
The fundamentals are terrible for all paper money , every currency , there are a few I mean the Singapore dollar is the soundest of all philosophically anyway , Canadian (dollar) ...there are some currencies that are reasonably sound but basically all politicians in the world now how to buy votes now and they are doing their best to buy votes that's not good , why you think gold is going to the roof , not going to the roof yet but it is going up , because other people understand what I understand...
...Money has to come from somewhere you either have to print it or borrow it or tax it , in the end people who are putting up the money will say things aren't better for me , and the currency is being debased everywhere...The idea of solving debt and consumption with more debt and more consumption , can you believe that the grown ups would say something like that ?!?! I men it is mind bugling to me that people who are supposedly educated would believe this and they seem to , I think what they really know in their hearts is we just gonna put the problem off until I am gone and then the next guy would have to worry about it , it is not going to help us all says Jim Rogers chairman of rogers Holding ,
