Jim Rogers remains bullish on commodities. He believes that demand will outstrip supply for the next two decades. A high amount of inflation is ahead, and gold and silver have typically done well in those environments.
Anything that a country can do to raise capital for entrepreneurs is good for the country, good for the entrepreneurs and good for the world. In 1998, the Jim Rogers commodities index was created to help investors invest in commodities more easily. He also wrote the book Hot Commodities to help people understand commodities and how and why he created the index.
What do you think about the recent moves in the silver market? Did it go down just because of the margin requirement change or is there something more fundamental about the correction?