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Jim Rogers: 'Gold Is Going to Go Much Higher Over the Course of the Decade'

Feb 22, 2012 | About:
Holly LaFon
Holly LaFon
Jim Rogers talks with Economic Times Now about China, commodities, gold prices, crude oil prices and tension with Iran:

With continuous monetary easing from China, how much support do you see going in for commodities and liquidity eases with the biggest commodity consumer?

Throughout history when you have people printing money and debasing currency, the way to protect yourself and to make money is to own real assets. Silver, rice, natural gas, and those are not specific recommendations. I am just saying those are natural resources. You now have the Bank of Japan, the Bank of England, America, the Chinese apparently are loosening up. Everybody is now loosening the money supply, printing money. That's good for real assets.

It has been few good days for the base metal prices as well. They are seeing strength on China easing and strong economic data as well. How do you forecast base metals from here?

If the world economy gets better, the shortages of nearly all commodities are developing and I am going to make money in the commodities. If the world economy does not get better, they are going to print a lot more money. The place to be is in real assets, including base metals. I do not own as many base metals as I own precious metals, but I own them all.

How would you look at the gold prices then because 1750 has been a resistance for a very long time? How do you see gold amidst the low interest rates from the US, Europe and those concerns from the Middle East as well?

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Jonathan Poland
Jonathan Poland - Feb 22, 2012 at 2:48 PM
But it could be reasoned that stocks are a "real asset" as well. Of course, governments will always print money, but that won't stop good businesses from generating solid returns on capital.
AlbertaSunwapta
AlbertaSunwapta - Feb 23, 2012 at 3:01 AM
There's reason to believe fresh money will enter the equity markets from other asset classes too. According to Wikipedia, in 2010, the global bond market was around $82 trillion and the global equity market was $55 trillion. Under the right conditions, going forward some portion of that value may flee bonds for other asset classes. (However for every dollar that actually escapes that market, aggregated capitalization vanishes.)
batbeer2
Batbeer2 premium member - Feb 23, 2012 at 3:44 AM
If there is something to be said for rice, silver etc. it also holds true for land and real estate.
Some of the "assets" Rogers mentions are at decade highs. Real estate isn't.

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