Jim Rogers

The best-selling author of The Investment Biker describes his three-year drive around the world with his fiancée Paige Parker, combining tales of his adventures in 116 countries with an insightful analysis of the global economy and the political, social, and cultural situation in various regions of the world. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.

The Ultimate Road Trip

Adventure Capitalist

Draws on the author's personal experiences to offer insight into and advice on the financial world, drawing on a belief that Southeast Asia and China are the dominant drivers of the world economy.

Adventures on the Road and in the Markets

Street Smarts

Shares the secrets of investing in the commodities market, explaining the cyclical and historical patterns of basic supply and demand and offering practical advice on how to take full financial advantage of such patterns.

How Anyone Can Invest Profitably in the World's Best Market

Hot Commodities

Presents financial and personal advice from the author, including how to trust one's own judgment, focus on personal and investment interests, and to be persistent.

A Father's Lessons for Life and Investing

A Gift to My Children

Around the World with Jim Rogers

Investment Biker

Looks at the investment opportunities available in the emerging Chinese economy and the country's growing openness to foreign investors, offering tips on how to take advantage of the situation and what, where, how, and when to buy.

Investing Profitably in the World's Greatest Market

A Bull in China

This book is about the author's amazing trip across six continents and the world economy and society. It discusses who's sinking and who's swimming, which countries are on the rise and which are collapsing, where you can make a million and where you could lose one. Every place he stopped on the trip, Rogers talked to businessmen, bankers, investors and regular people. He learned reams of information that you'd never learn from reading the financial pages of any periodical. Delivers a thrilling account of the journey of a lifetime and provides tips that would enable you to pay for a trip just like it.

Mat Callahan

Ours is an era when human genes can be copied and patented. From genetically modified foods to digital piracy, the concept of intellectual property (IP) and the laws upholding it play a foundational role in our society, but its political and ideological dimensions have rarely been understood outside of specialist circles. This collection cuts through the legal jargon that so often surrounds IP, to provide both a comprehensive history and analysis that explores the corporate interests that shape its conception and the movements that are developing alternatives. As the nature of industry changes, we might ask: what are the wider implications of the concept of IP, be it for agribusiness and pharmaceutical companies or the film and music industries? Has IP law has been used to safeguard and assert the ownership of ideas and creativity, or is it an essential foundation of our culture? Today, with mounting challenges from the growth of free software and open source movements, this collection provides an accessible and alternative guide to IP, exploring its significance within the wider struggle between capital and the commons.

A Critical Guide to Intellectual Property

The Death and Life of the Music Industry in the Digital Age challenges the conventional wisdom that the internet is 'killing' the music industry. While technological innovations (primarily in the form of peer-to-peer file-sharing) have evolved to threaten the economic health of major transnational music companies, Rogers illustrates how those same companies have themselves formulated highly innovative response strategies to negate the harmful effects of the internet. In short, it documents how the radical transformative potential of the internet is being suppressed by legal and organisational innovations. Grounded in a social shaping perspective, The Death and Life of the Music Industry in the Digital Age contends that the internet has not altered pre-existing power relations in the music industry where a small handful of very large corporations have long since established an oligopolistic dominance. Furthermore, the book contends that widespread acceptance of the idea that online piracy is rampant, and music largely 'free' actually helps these major music companies in their quest to bolster their power. In doing this, the study serves to deflate much of the transformative hype and digital 'deliria' that has accompanied the internet's evolution as a medium for mass communication.

The Death and Life of the Music Industry in the Digital Age

The next bull market is here. It’s not in stocks. It’s not in bonds. It’s in commodities –and some smart investors will be riding that bull to record returns in the next decade. Before Jim Rogers hit the road to write his bestselling books Investment Biker and Adventure Capitalist, he was one of the world’s most successful investors. He cofounded the Quantum Fund and made so much money that he never needed to work again. Yet despite his success, Rogers has never written a book of practical investment advice–until now. In Hot Commodities, Rogers offers the lowdown on the most lucrative markets for today and tomorrow. In 1998, gliding under the radar, a bull market in commodities began. 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. It’s up 165% since then, with more than $200 million invested, and it’s the single-best performing index fund in the world in any asset class. Less risky than stocks and less sluggish than bonds,, commodities are where the money is–and will be in the years ahead. Rogers’s strategies are simple and straightforward. You can start small–a few thousand dollars will suffice. It’s all about putting your money into stuff you understand, the basic materials of everyday life, like coal, sugar, cotton, corn, or crude oil. Once you recognize the cyclical and historical trading patterns outlined here, you’ll be on your way. In language that is both colorful and accessible, but Rogers explains why the world of commodity investing can be one of the simplest of all–and how commodities are the bases by which investors can value companies, markets, and whole economies. To be a truly great investor is to know something about commodities. For small investors and high rollers alike, Hot Commodities is as good as gold . . . or lead, or aluminum, which are some of the commodities Rogers says could be as rewarding for investors.

A gripping tale of adventure, danger and humor, peppered with investment tips from a Wall Street legend The best-selling author of Investment Biker takes a fascinating journey through the world's economic situation in a convertible yellow Mercedes. This is the motivating story of entrepreneur Jim Rogers, dubbed "the Indiana Jones of finance" by Time magazine, who made his fortune playing the stock market and then embarked on his lifelong dream adventure. Together with his fiancee, Paige Parker, he set out on a three-year drive around the world that would ultimately set the Guinness world record for the longest continuous car journey. Their trip winds its way through 116 countries - through blizzards, deserts, epidemics and war zones - to discover failing economies and the new boom countries not from dry and potentially flawed statistics, but by experiencing life itself. This is a gripping tale of travel and adventure; along the way they encounter danger, love and farce. It is also a highly readable account of world economies: you won't find a more enjoyable way to be introduced to the investment potential of Bolivia, or the cultural changes afoot in North Korea. Finally it is also an inward journey in which Rogers moves from the restless traveler to husband and father, hoping one day to introduce his daughter to his own passion for travel. JIM ROGERS entered the investment business in 1968 with $600 dollars in his pocket. By 1980, at 37 years of age, he had left Wall Street with enough money to satisfy a lifelong appetite for adventure.

Profiting from China without getting burned is currently an obsession with the international investment community. The estimated size of the Chinese economy has just been revised upwards, making it the 4th largest in the world behind the US, Japan and Germany, and ahead of the UK but the idea that investing in China is a sure–fire, get–rich–quick investment story is dangerously misleading. ∗ The author of the bestselling Investment Biker, Adventure Capitalist, and Hot Commodities, is providing a book that provides a window into what will soon be the most vital, most lucrative market of our time: China. ∗ While the Chinese economy has had an annual average growth of 9.4 percent since 1978, and despite the ongoing speculation about China′s future, its stock market is now emerging from a six–year low. ∗ As the Chinese economy continues to lumber toward a free market system – and as the Chinese government inevitably unpegs its currency and opens its stock market to more foreign investment, Rogers foresees an abundance of opportunities for investors. ∗ In this book, he shows readers not only how to take advantage of China′s coming dominance – what, where, how, and when to buy – but how China will impact individual companies, markets, and economies around the world. ∗ "Nobody with blue eyes has ever made money investing in China," the old saying goes. Jim Rogers aims to disprove this adage. Jim Rogers co–founded the Quantum Fund and retired at age 37. Since then, he has served as a sometime professor of finance at Columbia University′s business school, and as a media commentator. He appears twice a week on Fox Business News, and is the author of three immensely successful books.

إذا صحَّت التقديرات فإن الصين ستتجاوز الولايات المتحدة بوصفها أكبر اقتصاد في العالم في أقل من عشرين سنة، فها قد حان وقت العمل. في هذا الكتاب «مارد في الصين» سوف تتعرف على القطاعات التي تعرض لك أفضل الفرص وأحدثها من الكهرباء والطاقة والزراعة، وصولاً إلى السياحة والمياه والبنية التحتية. وبأسلوب العلامة التجارية الواقعية يقوم روجرز بفك رموز السياسات الرسمية التي ترعى الأرباح والإبداع، ويستبعد عامل التخويف من الأسهم، ويشجع أي قارئ على استخدام خبرته الشخصية، فعلى سبيل المثال: «إذا كنت ميكانيكياً فاطلع على صناعة السيارات في الصين». ومن سمات كتاب «مارد في الصين» أيضاً التحليلات المدهشة للشركات المتفوقة والآمنة التي تعدّ أكبر صانع شراب في الصين، والتي تبيع الشراب الصحي الممزوج بالأعشاب الطبية. بالإضافة إلى أنه إذا أردت أن تصدّر شيئاً ما إلى الصين بنفسك، أو حتى تشتري قطعة أرض فإن روجرز يطلعك على الخطوات اللازمة لإنجاز هذا العمل. ولا يستطيع أي كتاب، ولا كاتب آخر أن يساعدك في الاستفادة من الثورة الصينية الجديدة بأكبر قدر ممكن أكثر من هذا الكتاب، حيث يريك جيم روجرز «كيف تُنتج الطاقة الكامنة المذهلة؟! وكيف أن الروح التجارية لمليار شخص تعمل من أجلك؟!». العبيكان للنشر

A Bull in China: Investing Profitably in the World's Greatest Market

مارد في الصين

Drive . . . and grow rich! The bestselling author of Investment Biker is back from the ultimate road trip: a three-year drive around the world that would ultimately set the Guinness record for the longest continuous car journey. In Adventure Capitalist, legendary investor Jim Rogers, dubbed “the Indiana Jones of finance” by Time magazine, proves that the best way to profit from the global situation is to see the world mile by mile. “While I have never patronized a prostitute,” he writes, “I know that one can learn more about a country from speaking to the madam of a brothel or a black marketeer than from meeting a foreign minister.” Behind the wheel of a sunburst-yellow, custom-built convertible Mercedes, Rogers and his fiancée, Paige Parker, began their “Millennium Adventure” on January 1, 1999, from Iceland. They traveled through 116 countries, including many where most have rarely ventured, such as Saudi Arabia, Myanmar, Angola, Sudan, Congo, Colombia, and East Timor. They drove through war zones, deserts, jungles, epidemics, and blizzards. They had many narrow escapes. They camped with nomads and camels in the western Sahara. They ate silkworms, iguanas, snakes, termites, guinea pigs, porcupines, crocodiles, and grasshoppers. Best of all, they saw the real world from the ground up—the only vantage point from which it can be truly understood—economically, politically, and socially. Here are just a few of the author’s conclusions: • The new commodity bull market has started. • The twenty-first century will belong to China. • There is a dramatic shortage of women developing in Asia. • Pakistan is on the verge of disintegrating. • India, like many other large nations, will break into several countries. • The Euro is doomed to fail. • There are fortunes to be made in Angola. • Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are a scam. • Bolivia is a comer after decades of instability, thanks to gigantic amounts of natural gas. Adventure Capitalist is the most opinionated, sprawling, adventurous journey you’re likely to take within the pages of a book—the perfect read for armchair adventurers, global investors, car enthusiasts, and anyone interested in seeing the world and understanding it as it really is.

Challenges the conventional wisdom that the internet is 'killing' the music industry.

Jim Rogers ist eine Legende der Wall Street. Seit über 30 Jahren tradet der Börsenprofi so erfolgreich wie kaum ein anderer. Er kennt sich in den weltweiten Finanzmärkten aus und sieht die Trends der Zukunft, bevor andere sie entdecken. Den nächsten Bullenmarkt hat er bereits ausgemacht: Rohstoffe. Ob Gold, Zucker, Kaffee oder Nickel - jeder Rohstoff ist für Investoren und Trader interessant. Jim Rogers vermittelt in diesem Buch die Grundlagen des Rohstoffhandels. Dabei fließen seine Erfahrungen aus zwei Weltreisen und aus 30 Jahren professionellen Tradings ein. Jim Rogers nimmt den Leser bei der Hand und führt in Schritt für Schritt in die Welt des Rohstoffhandels ein. Er zeigt auf, inwiefern sich der Handel mit Rohstoffen von dem mit Immobilien, Aktien oder Fonds unterscheidet. Außderdem erklärt er, wo und wann man Rohstoffe richtig tradet und wie man mit Rohstoffen profitabel investiert. Das Wesentliche zum Thema Rohstoffe - in einem unglaublich unterhaltsamen Buch.

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