Gold Market Outlook

I don`t think the bull market will end in gold. Normally all assets correct 30 or 40 percent every year or 2 or 3. It`s just the way the markets work. Gold has only been down 30 percent once in the past 12 years and even then it ended up for the year. This is extremely unusual for any market. So, what I said was, that if gold were to correct 35 or 40 percent it would go to 1200. Gold needs to correct, it`s supposed to correct every 2 or 3 years. It has not, which worries me. If it did, I hope I am smart enough to buy more. It should but it does not mean it will. It may go to 2400 before it goes to 1200.

My Success Came From Homework, Working Harder

“To the extent that I had any success, it was from homework. I was willing and able to work harder than other people, but I was also willing and able to think differently from other people.” Jim Rogers in Smart Planet

Rothschild: How He Used To Invest

"It may have been Meyer Rothschild, the German banker and patriarch of the legendary House of Rothschild who, when asked how he got so rich, attributed his success to two things. He said he always bought when there was blood in the streets - panic, chaos - when despondency gripped the markets. (in old man Rothschild case, investing amid the turbulence of the Napoleonic wars, the blood was as likely to be literal as it was to be figurative.) And he always sold "too soon". He did not wait for the enthusiasm to peak. He always knew when to get out, and he got out in time with all his money." Jim Rogers

Austrian School Of Economics

Well, if you go back to previous periods in history, in the early Twenties, for instance, America had an economic problem, and believe it or not they raised interest rates, they balanced the budget. They had a terrible year or two in the early Twenties, but then they had one of the most prosperous and exciting economic decades in history, in American history. The Scandinavians, in the early Nineties, had the same problem. They let people go bankrupt, they let the market take its course – that was a horrible pain for a couple of years, but then Scandinavia became one of the most prosperous parts of the world economy, over the next 10 – 15 years, so that solution works. The Japanese, at the same time in the early Nineties, did the opposite. They refused to let people go bankrupt. They spent staggering amounts of money they didn't have. They printed a lot of money, and the Japanese still talk about the 1990s as a lost decade; now they talk about two lost decades. That has not worked – that system of, the tangient system, if you will, has not worked any time in history. Hayek has worked. It's difficult for a while, but in the end you clean out the system. Many people, not just Hayek – but von Mises, Schumpeter – many economists throughout history have said, unless you clean out the system, anything after that is artificial, any recovery is artificial and it won't last. So far, they've been proved right, and Keynes has not been proved right.

Compounding Is The Magic Of Investing

If you compound your money at 9 percent a year, you are better off than investors whose results jump up and down, who have some great years and horrible losses in others. The losses will kill you. They ruin your compounding rate, and compounding is the magic of investing.

Find Ways To Invest In Myanmar

If you can find ways to invest in Myanmar you will be very, very rich over the next 20, 30, 40 years

It`s Not That Simple

If all you had to do was to pile up debt and print money, Zimbabwe would be the richest country in the world right now.