FoA 378: Adventure Capitalism with Legendary Investor and Author Jim Rogers

<p><a href="https://www.unitedsoybean.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Soy Checkoff</a>: https://www.unitedsoybean.org/</p><p><a href="https://www.jimrogers.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">More About Jim Rogers</a>: https://www.jimrogers.com/</p><p>Today’s episode features Jim Rogers. I will first admit that this episode is pretty selfish. I found Jim’s books, particularly “Investment Biker” “Adventure Capitalist” and “Hot Commodities” in college when I was trying to figure out where my interests were and where I might like to start my career. I already had an interest in agriculture, international travel, and investing, so they had a huge impact on me. In fact, I decided to start my career in commodities in no small part because of his writing. </p><p>So, when I had the chance to interview him on his thoughts about the world generally, I jumped at it. This one might be a bit different from our normal content because Jim is looking at broader economic and geopolitical drivers from an investor perspective and not so much as a “ag person” but I think his perspective is extremely valuable. The other reason this one might be a little bit different is I couldn’t help but become starstruck by him. He really had that big of an impact on me at a formative age.&nbsp;</p><p>If you weren’t a wannabe investment geek in college like I was, let me give you some biographical background.&nbsp;</p><p>Jim Rogers, a native of Demopolis, Alabama, is an author, financial commentator and successful international investor. After attending Yale and Oxford University, Rogers co-founded the Quantum Fund, a global-investment partnership. During the next 10 years, the portfolio gained 4200%, while the S&amp;P rose less than 50%. Rogers then decided to retire – at age 37. Continuing to manage his own portfolio, Rogers kept busy serving as a full professor of finance at Columbia University Graduate School of Business, and, in 1989 and 1990, as the moderator of WCBS’s ‘The Dreyfus Roundtable’ and FNN’s ‘The Profi