Jim Rogers is the author of a very interesting book called A Gift to the Children. But he doesn’t have a blog. Instead, blogs like this one have been set up on his behalf.

Brazil will probably do well in the future because there is a resource boom coming. However, they have also made quite a few mistakes.

Jim Rogers is “retired”, which means that he doesn’t go to an office and he doesn’t invest other people’s money. Instead, he spends his time doing what he wants.

Jim Rogers does spend some time keeping an eye on the Jim Rogers Index, but it is just an index, like the S&P. He doesn’t actively manage it.

After Yale and Oxford, Jim Rogers went to the army. After that he went to Wall Street. The greatest benefit he got from these universities was a grasp of history and philosophy.

The Quantum Fund was named over 40 years ago. It was somewhat named after Quantum Physics, Quantum Leaps, and the fact that everything is always changing.

In the very beginning, Jim Rogers didn’t know anything about investing. He made a lot of mistakes, but he learned a lot.

Right now the world is in a precarious state. Everything might be ok in 2012 because there are several elections. This means that governments are going to spend a lot of money and a lot of people are going to do quite well.

Most of Asia aren’t making as many mistakes as the West. They have a high savings rate, which is how an economy grows.

The largest creditor nations are China, Taiwan, Japan, and places like that. They are building up more and more savings.

Eventually, the money always runs out. As long as there is enough confidence, enough people can be tricked. In 1918 the UK was the richest country in the world, but soon they were completely broke and had to be bailed out. The money always runs out.

Right now the US is the largest economy in the world. If they have problems, everyone is going to have problems.

But China is trying to reorient. They are building up sources of natural commodities so that they can be more self contained. They are also making their currency for international so that they can wean themselves off of the dollar.

Now would be a good time to be in commodities. They will go up whether the economy does good or bad. Commodities have been in a correction lately, but corrections are common and normal in a bull market. So there is nothing strange going on.

Gold and silver, like other metals are determined by supply and demand. When supply goes down and demand goes up, then you have a wonderful bull market, which is what we have seen lately.

Central Banks, which used to sell gold, are now buying up gold.

Silver is more industrial. So if the economy gets better, it will get a double boost.

The US Dollar is not a safe haven, but a lot of people still think of it that way.

There are 2 or 3 days of reckoning coming up.

The day of reckoning for the stock market will probably be around the fall of 2012. At that time, everyone will start to see the problems.

Jim Rogers is bearish on the dollar, but so is everyone else, and typically when everyone is on the same side of a trade, it is time to go to the opposite.

Some people are fantastic market timers. Some people can just sit around and day-trade. But Jim Rogers is terrible at that. So he focuses on the long term.

There are no easy answers in investing. If you ever find one, then Jim Rogers wants to know about it. It is unlikely that you are going to be able to take a course to learn how to trade successfully.

Jim’s daughter Happy, said her first words while she was sitting on Jim Roger’s lap. Hopefully Happy becomes a citizen of the world.

The more that we know about the world, the more successful we will be, and the more peaceful the world will be.

America was the most important country in the 20th century. That probably won’t be the case in the 21st century.

The book A Gift to My Children is a collection of wisdom and experiences that Jim Rogers learned throughout his life that he wants his children to know. Hopefully they will read it again and again for the rest of their lives.

One mistake that Jim Rogers made was with his first wife. That was his first big failure, but he also learned a lot from it.