Jim Rogers. The bow-tie is the credibility killer. Check the calendar Jim.
One of my readers writes in:
I saw Jim Rogers (author of “Investment Biker”, “Adventure Capitalist”, and “Hot Commodities” ) speak at the Executives Club in Chicago yesterday. He was on a panel of economists giving their outlook for 2005. He mentioned that he has a 19-month old daughter. He is making certain that she learns equal amounts of Chinese and English. He said that China is poised to be the economic powerhouse of the 21st century that Britain was in the 19th century and the US was in the 20th century. He also keeps her money in a Swiss bank account.
A confidence builder, eh?
I’ve seen this guy on the Foxnews business shows. He seems a bit wacky to me. Plus the bowtie has to go.
Isn’t this the same thing we heard about Japan in the 1980s?
Harry Enfield on what he found on the school run: ‘Never trust anyone who wears a beard, a bowtie, two-tone shoes or sunglasses. That was the advice. You can imagine the panic that set in when I got to Hollywood.’
Bowtie aside, he is one of the wiser, non-conflicted and straight shooters in the investment world which has few else it can place in those ranks.
If you saw the technology week on Charlie Rose about a month ago, the CEO’s of Cisco, Yahoo, Intel and Google said exactly the same — on their segment.
I watched him for years on CNBC prior to Y2K. He was pretty right-on across the board. He took several years off about 1999 to travel the world in a custom Porsche. He knows what he’s talking about…
#6 comment : It was a custom Mercedes, not Porsche.